El Caporal in numbers
- Coordinates
- 27.4036, -99.5425
- Region
- Tamaulipas
- Country
- Mexico, North America
- Capital
- Mexico City — 888 km away
- Same name
- 18 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Caporal, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Right now in El Caporal, Tamaulipas, Mexico the local time is the one shown here, in the America/Matamoros zone (−5).
El Caporal, Mexico
Monday, 26 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Matamoros
Local time in El Caporal
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in El Caporal.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:46 AM Solar noon 1:23 PM Sunset 7:01 PM Daylight 11 h 15 min Night 12 h 45 min Civil twilight 7:22 AM – 7:25 PM
Weather in El Caporal right now
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El Caporal and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 34570
- 36486
- 88293
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 Caporal
- El Caporal Guanajuato, Mexico
- El Caporal Durango, Mexico
- El Caporal San Luis Potosí, Mexico
- El Caporal Yucatán, Mexico
- El Caporal Campeche, Mexico
Nearby places
- Guzman — 0.4 km
- Granjas Treviño — 1.1 km
- El Patio — 1.6 km
- Regina — 1.6 km
- Charco Largo — 1.7 km
- Laura — 1.9 km
Time and daylight in El Caporal
3 distinct postal codes apply to El Caporal.
El Caporal keeps time under America/Matamoros. That places it at UTC−5, with daylight saving time Yes.
Sunrise reaches El Caporal at 7:46 AM, and the sun sets at 7:01 PM. Light lasts 11 h 15 min.
The hour in El Caporal is the hour in Guzman and Granjas Treviño as well.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone is used in El Caporal?
- The time zone used in El Caporal is America/Matamoros, with an offset of −5.
- Does the local time in El Caporal change with daylight saving?
- Yes.
- How early does the sun rise in El Caporal?
- The first sunlight comes at 7:46 AM.