El Capitán in numbers
- Coordinates
- 26.4937, -99.1418
- Region
- Tamaulipas
- Country
- Mexico, North America
- Capital
- Mexico City — 786 km away
- Same name
- 25 more places in the world share this name
The time in El Capitán, Tamaulipas, Mexico at this very moment is shown below, in the America/Monterrey zone (−6).
El Capitán, Mexico
Sunday, 15 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Monterrey
Local time in El Capitán
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in El Capitán.
Sunrise 6:57 AM Solar noon 12:22 PM Sunset 5:48 PM Daylight 10 h 51 min Night 13 h 09 min Civil twilight 6:32 AM – 6:12 PM
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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.
El Capitán appears under 2 postal codes.
El Capitán adheres to America/Monterrey, a UTC−6 offset. Daylight saving time observed: No.
In El Capitán the sun appears at 6:57 AM and disappears at 5:48 PM today. Daylight stretches 10 h 51 min.
Set your clock for El Capitán and it will also be right in La Barreta and El Canteado.