El Capitán in numbers
- Coordinates
- 24.8496, -97.9333
- Region
- Tamaulipas
- Country
- Mexico, North America
- Capital
- Mexico City — 615 km away
- Same name
- 25 more places in the world share this name
The page gives the present local time in El Capitán, Tamaulipas, Mexico, whose time zone is America/Monterrey (−6).
El Capitán, Mexico
Tuesday, 10 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 6:46 AM Solar noon 12:17 PM Sunset 5:48 PM Daylight 11 h 02 min Night 12 h 58 min Civil twilight 6:22 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.
For Colonia Las Palmas and Los Colorados near El Capitán, the clock reads the same.
Addressing within El Capitán draws on 2 postal codes.
The offset in El Capitán is UTC−6, under the America/Monterrey time zone. Daylight saving time: No.
Today the sun comes up at 6:46 AM in El Capitán and goes down at 5:48 PM. Daylight measures 11 h 02 min.