El Cantón in numbers
- Coordinates
- 22.8128, -98.3000
- Region
- Tamaulipas
- Country
- Mexico, North America
- Capital
- Mexico City — 386 km away
- Same name
- 42 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Cantón, Tamaulipas, Mexico
The current local time in El Cantón, Tamaulipas, Mexico is displayed here for the America/Monterrey time zone (−6).
El Cantón, Mexico
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Monterrey
Local time in El Cantón
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
El Cantón keeps America/Monterrey clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:44 AM Solar noon 12:18 PM Sunset 5:52 PM Daylight 11 h 08 min Night 12 h 52 min Civil twilight 6:21 AM – 6:16 PM
Weather in El Cantón right now
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El Cantón and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 37947
- 39937
- 40487
- 48274
- 68470
- 76317
- 83303
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 Cantón
- El Cantón Guerrero, Mexico
- El Cantón Jalisco, Mexico
- El Canton Guerrero, Mexico
- El Cantón Puebla, Mexico
- El Cantón Sinaloa, Mexico
Same time zone — America/Monterrey
Nearby places
- El Pelicano — 1.0 km
- El Coral — 1.1 km
- La Escuadra — 1.8 km
- La Estancia — 1.8 km
- Ampliacion Ursulo Galvan — 2.0 km
- El Pulmon — 2.1 km
Local time details for El Cantón
You will find the same time in El Pelicano and El Coral, both near El Cantón.
7 postal codes describe the layout of El Cantón.
Clocks in El Cantón take America/Monterrey as their zone, reading UTC−6. Daylight saving time applies: No.
Sunrise in El Cantón is at 6:44 AM today, and sunset comes at 5:52 PM. Daylight lasts 11 h 08 min.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone determines the local time in El Cantón?
- Local time in El Cantón is determined by America/Monterrey, with an offset of −6.
- Is daylight saving time something to watch for in El Cantón?
- No.
- How late does the sun set in El Cantón?
- The last sunlight comes at 5:52 PM.