CancúnMexico
Current time in Cancún, Mexico
Friday, 4 September 2026
Eastern Standard TimeUTC-05:00
⛶ Full-screen clockCancún time at a glance
- Country
- Mexico
- Location
- City in Quintana Roo
- Time zone
America/Cancun- UTC offset now
UTC-05:00- Current zone label
- GMT-5
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Weather now
Weather in Cancún
Conditions near Cancún and a 3-day forecast. Local conditions can differ across large urban areas, mountains and coastlines.
Overcast
- Feels like
- 32°C
- Humidity
- 86%
- Wind
- 10.8 km/h SE
- Recent precipitation
- 0 mm
3-day forecast
- Sunny27°C to 30°C15% chance of precipitationWind up to 18.4 km/h
- Sunny28°C to 30°C57% chance of precipitationWind up to 19.8 km/h
- Sunny27°C to 30°C12% chance of precipitationWind up to 15.8 km/h
Forecast valid from 02:15 local time. Updated 2026-09-04T07:23:57.681Z; refresh due by 2026-09-04T07:38:57.681Z.
Time-zone identity for Cancún
- IANA zone
America/Cancun- UTC offset now
- UTC-05:00
- Current zone label
- GMT-5
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Cancún is currently 5 hours behind UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Cancún
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Thursday, 9 September 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Cancún
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for America/Cancun, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the previous 5 years.
Next 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the next 5 years.
Dates are calculated from IANA time-zone rules. The calculation checks for offset changes throughout the displayed period and resolves each change to the nearest second.
Location context
About Cancún
Location details for Cancún in Quintana Roo, Mexico.
- Administrative area
- Quintana Roo, Mexico
- Population
- 888,797
- Coordinates
- 21.1743° N, 86.8466° W. The elevation is 11 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Cancún
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Cancún. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- Playa del CarmenQuintana Roo, Mexico65 km south
America/CancunSame local time - CozumelQuintana Roo, Mexico76 km south
America/CancunSame local time - TulumQuintana Roo, Mexico125 km southwest
America/CancunSame local time - Felipe Carrillo PuertoQuintana Roo, Mexico217 km southwest
America/CancunSame local time - ChetumalQuintana Roo, Mexico332 km southwest
America/CancunSame local time - TizimínYucatán, Mexico135 km west
America/Merida1 hour behind
Sources for Cancún time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 4 sources
- GeoNames cities15000GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · AccessedCity and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
- IANA Time Zone DatabaseInternet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · AccessedTime-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
- Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · AccessedEnglish display names for countries, currencies and languages.
- Weather and Geolocation APIWeatherAPI.com · Forecast API v1; free plan · WeatherAPI.com terms; commercial and non-commercial use permitted by plan · AccessedCurrent weather conditions, the next 24 hours and a three-day forecast.