El Alto in numbers
- Coordinates
- 25.8578, -97.7094
- Population
- 91
- Region
- Tamaulipas
- Country
- Mexico, North America
- Capital
- Mexico City — 730 km away
- Same name
- 212 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Alto, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Use this page to see what time it is in El Alto, Tamaulipas, Mexico — the America/Matamoros zone applies there (−5).
El Alto, Mexico
Friday, 30 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Matamoros
Local time in El Alto
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
Local time in El Alto, Tamaulipas.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:39 AM Solar noon 1:16 PM Sunset 6:52 PM Daylight 11 h 13 min Night 12 h 47 min Civil twilight 7:15 AM – 7:16 PM
Weather in El Alto right now
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El Alto and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 26342
- 35713
- 40904
- 65525
- 75412
- 79655
- 81530
- 83690
- 84175
- 85203
- 87394
- 90110
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 Alto
- El Alto Piura, Peru
- El Alto Chiapas, Mexico
- El Alto Cajamarca Department, Peru
- El Alto Sinaloa, Mexico
- El Alto Lambayeque, Peru
Nearby places
- Palmito — 1.1 km
- Tanque Alegre — 1.3 km
- La Paloma — 2.0 km
- La Vanguardia — 2.0 km
- Laguna — 3.4 km
- El Crucero — 3.5 km
El Alto: clock, sun and surroundings
Postal codes assigned across El Alto total 12.
El Alto runs on America/Matamoros, which sits UTC−5 relative to Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving in effect: Yes.
Sunlight reaches El Alto at 7:39 AM and fades after 6:52 PM today. The span is 11 h 13 min.
Nearby Palmito and Tanque Alegre need no separate clock from El Alto.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone should I use for El Alto?
- Use America/Matamoros for El Alto; its offset is −5.
- Does El Alto follow daylight saving time?
- Yes.
- Do you know the time of sunrise in El Alto?
- Yes, it is 7:39 AM.