El Alteño in numbers
- Coordinates
- 25.6831, -97.5642
- Region
- Tamaulipas
- Country
- Mexico, North America
- Capital
- Mexico City — 714 km away
- Same name
- 5 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Alteño, Tamaulipas, Mexico
This page reports the local time in El Alteño, Tamaulipas, Mexico, set by the America/Matamoros time zone (−5).
El Alteño, Mexico
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Matamoros
Local time in El Alteño
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
Local time in El Alteño, Tamaulipas.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:30 AM Solar noon 1:17 PM Sunset 7:03 PM Daylight 11 h 33 min Night 12 h 27 min Civil twilight 7:07 AM – 7:26 PM
Weather in El Alteño right now
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El Alteño and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 87396 Expofiesta Norte — 3.0 km away
- 87390 Victoria — 3.0 km away
- 87399 Magisterial — 3.0 km away
- 87393 Luz del Valle — 3.0 km away
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 Alteño
- El Alteño Chiapas, Mexico
- El Alteno Sinaloa, Mexico
- El Alteño Baja California Sur, Mexico
- El Alteño Tamaulipas, Mexico
- El Alteño Veracruz, Mexico
Nearby places
- El Moquete — 2.2 km
- Arroyo Del Tigre — 2.3 km
- El Equanil — 2.4 km
- Los San Pedros — 2.6 km
- Paso Del Aguila — 4.2 km
- La Ochenta Y Dos — 5.4 km
About the time in El Alteño
The postal system lists 4 codes for El Alteño.
El Alteño sits under America/Matamoros, which puts local clocks at UTC−5. Daylight saving in use: Yes.
In El Alteño the sun rises today at 7:30 AM and sets again at 7:03 PM. Daylight fills 11 h 33 min of the day.
El Moquete and Arroyo Del Tigre are neighbours of El Alteño on the same clock.
Questions and answers
- What time zone label is used for El Alteño?
- The time zone label used for El Alteño is America/Matamoros, with an offset of −5.
- Is summer time in effect in El Alteño at some point in the year?
- Daylight saving observed in El Alteño: Yes.
- Sunset in El Alteño is at what time?
- At 7:03 PM.