Madrid to Mexico City Time

Madrid to Mexico City conversion chart

Every full hour of Tuesday, October 13, 2026 in Madrid, and the time in Mexico City. Pick another date in the converter and the chart follows.

Time difference over the year

The gap between Madrid and Mexico City for the next 12 months, with clock changes on both sides taken into account:

• Oct 13, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026: Mexico City is 8 hours behind Madrid
• Oct 25, 2026 to Mar 27, 2027: Mexico City is 7 hours behind Madrid
• Mar 28, 2027 to Oct 12, 2027: Mexico City is 8 hours behind Madrid

Daylight saving time in Madrid and Mexico City

Madrid turns the clocks forward from CET to CEST at 2:00 AM on the last Sunday in March and back at 3:00 AM on the last Sunday in October, the dates set by EU Directive 2000/84/EC for every member state. In 2026 the changes fall on March 29 and October 25, in 2027 on March 28 and October 31.

Mexico City stays on CST (UTC−6) all year: Mexico has not changed its clocks since October 30, 2022.

The gap takes 2 values across 2026 and 2027: 7 hours, 8 hours. 8 hours holds on most days; the highlighted rows are the 303 days with another gap, because one side has changed its clocks and the other has not:

Office hours that overlap

With a 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM workday in both cities, this is the shared window for each gap of the year:

• 7 hours apart (CET with CST), 155 days of 2026: 1 hour of shared office time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM in Madrid is 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM in Mexico City.
• 8 hours apart (CEST with CST), 210 days of 2026: No shared office time. When Madrid starts work at 9:00 AM, it is 1:00 AM in Mexico City; when Mexico City starts at 9:00 AM, it is 5:00 PM in Madrid.

Which time zones Madrid and Mexico City use

Madrid is on Central European Time (CET in winter, CEST in summer), which is used in Spain, which follows the EU summer-time dates. Mexico City is on Central Standard Time (CST), used in central Mexico, one of the three time zones the country keeps all year.

Comparing more than two places? Add as many cities as you need in the time zone converter, or find a slot that works for everyone with the meeting planner. For timestamps from logs or APIs, the Unix timestamp converter turns them into readable dates.

Sources

The clock change rules above come from these pages. The dates, the gap table and the office hours are computed from them and checked against the time zone data at build time.

• EUR-Lex: Directive 2000/84/EC on summer-time arrangements
• timeanddate.com: clock changes in Madrid
• timeanddate.com: clock changes in Mexico City
• timeanddate.com: time zone in Mexico City

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Built by Tobias Kurth, designer. Updated October 13, 2026.

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