Cárdenas in numbers
- Coordinates
- 25.9259, -100.1740
- Region
- Nuevo León
- Country
- Mexico, North America
- Capital
- Mexico City — 730 km away
- Same name
- 19 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Cárdenas, Nuevo León, Mexico
Use this page to see what time it is in Cárdenas, Nuevo León, Mexico — the America/Monterrey zone applies there (−6).
Cárdenas, Mexico
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Monterrey
Local time in Cárdenas
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Cárdenas.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:56 AM Solar noon 12:26 PM Sunset 5:56 PM Daylight 11 h 00 min Night 13 h 00 min Civil twilight 6:32 AM – 6:20 PM
Weather in Cárdenas right now
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Cárdenas and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 36877
- 38177
- 86544
- 97804
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in Nuevo León
- Monterrey 1 135 512
- Guadalupe 673 616
- Ciudad Apodaca 467 157
- Ciudad General Escobedo 454 967
- San Nicolas De Los Garza 412 199
- Ciudad Benito Juarez 308 285
Other places named Cárdenas
- Cardenas Matanzas Province, Cuba
- Cardenas Tabasco, Mexico
- Cardenas San Luis Potosí, Mexico
- Cardenas Guanajuato, Mexico
- Cárdenas Rivas Department, Nicaragua
Same time zone — America/Monterrey
Nearby places
- Real Del Sol — 1.5 km
- Villas De Alcala — 1.6 km
- Hacienda San Pedro — 1.7 km
- San Jose Del Desafio — 2.2 km
- Fraccionamiento Real Palmas — 2.8 km
- Ex-Hacienda San Pedro — 3.2 km
Local time details for Cárdenas
Cárdenas runs its day on America/Monterrey, which is offset UTC−6. Seasonal time adjustment: No.
Today the sun rises over Cárdenas at 6:56 AM and sets at 5:56 PM. That is 11 h 00 min of daylight in all.
Real Del Sol and Villas De Alcala, both nearby, hold the same time as Cárdenas.
A total of 4 postal codes belong to Cárdenas.
Questions and answers
- What time zone governs the clock in Cárdenas?
- The clock in Cárdenas follows America/Monterrey, with an offset of −6.
- What time zone rules apply in Cárdenas — does the clock change for daylight saving time?
- Daylight saving time in Cárdenas: No.
- When does the sun appear in Cárdenas?
- It appears at 6:56 AM.