El Alacrán in numbers
- Coordinates
- 22.7480, -98.8238
- Region
- Tamaulipas
- Country
- Mexico, North America
- Capital
- Mexico City — 370 km away
- Same name
- 40 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Alacrán, Tamaulipas, Mexico
See what time it currently is in El Alacrán, Tamaulipas, Mexico — the time zone there is America/Monterrey (−6).
El Alacrán, Mexico
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Monterrey
Local time in El Alacrán
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in El Alacrán.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:46 AM Solar noon 12:20 PM Sunset 5:54 PM Daylight 11 h 08 min Night 12 h 52 min Civil twilight 6:23 AM – 6:18 PM
Weather in El Alacrán right now
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El Alacrán and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 25630
- 34683
- 34707
- 34980
- 58357
- 63421
- 70957
- 71606
- 84636
- 86464
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 Tamaulipas
- Reynosa 589 466
- Heroica Matamoros 510 739
- Nuevo Laredo 416 055
- Ciudad Victoria 332 100
- Tampico 309 003
- Ciudad Madero 197 216
Other places named El Alacrán
- El Alacrán Oaxaca, Mexico
- El Alacran Oaxaca, Mexico
- El Alacran Zacatecas, Mexico
- El Alacrán Jalisco, Mexico
- El Alacrán Jalisco, Mexico
Same time zone — America/Monterrey
Nearby places
- Palma — 0.8 km
- Venustiano Carranza Uno — 4.9 km
- La Mora — 7.1 km
- Guayalejo — 7.1 km
- Potrero — 9.5 km
- Paso Real — 12.6 km
Local time details for El Alacrán
10 codes make up the postal map of El Alacrán.
Time in El Alacrán runs on America/Monterrey, which is UTC−6. Does daylight saving time apply here? No.
Daylight arrives in El Alacrán at 6:46 AM and departs at 5:54 PM. It lasts 11 h 08 min today.
Neighbouring places Palma and Venustiano Carranza Uno run on El Alacrán time.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone name applies to El Alacrán?
- The time zone name for El Alacrán is America/Monterrey, with an offset of −6.
- Does El Alacrán apply a daylight saving adjustment?
- No.
- Both sunrise and sunset in El Alacrán — what times?
- 6:46 AM and 5:54 PM.