El Alteño in numbers
- Coordinates
- 24.8298, -98.0822
- Region
- Tamaulipas
- Country
- Mexico, North America
- Capital
- Mexico City — 610 km away
- Same name
- 5 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Alteño, Tamaulipas, Mexico
The page gives the present local time in El Alteño, Tamaulipas, Mexico, whose time zone is America/Monterrey (−6).
El Alteño, Mexico
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−6 · America/Monterrey
Local time in El Alteño
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in El Alteño.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:32 AM Solar noon 12:19 PM Sunset 6:06 PM Daylight 11 h 34 min Night 12 h 26 min Civil twilight 6:09 AM – 6:29 PM
Weather in El Alteño right now
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El Alteño and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 87628 La Joya — 7.5 km away
- 87624 Laguna Seca Del Sur — 8.9 km away
- 87626 Miguel Hidalgo 1 — 16.3 km away
- 87627 6 de Enero — 16.3 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
Same time zone — America/Monterrey
Nearby places
- La Noria De San Fernando — 0.7 km
- Nuevo Tlaxcala — 2.5 km
- Ricardo Dávila — 3.8 km
- Catalina Numero Dos — 4.3 km
- Leonel Salinas Curiel — 4.8 km
- Conasupo [granero] — 7.0 km
About the time in El Alteño
Today's times for El Alteño: the sun is up at 6:32 AM and down at 6:06 PM. That means 11 h 34 min of daylight.
Neighbouring places La Noria De San Fernando and Nuevo Tlaxcala run on El Alteño time.
Across El Alteño, 4 postal codes are recorded.
El Alteño belongs to the America/Monterrey zone, placing local clocks at UTC−6. Summer time adjustment: No.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone value belongs to El Alteño?
- The time zone value for El Alteño is America/Monterrey, with an offset of −6.
- Is daylight saving time part of the local schedule in El Alteño?
- Daylight saving time in El Alteño: No.
- When is the sun up in El Alteño?
- The sun comes up at 6:32 AM.