El Caracol in numbers
- Coordinates
- 27.3723, -99.5949
- Region
- Tamaulipas
- Country
- Mexico, North America
- Capital
- Mexico City — 885 km away
- Same name
- 175 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Caracol, Tamaulipas, Mexico
This page displays how late it is in El Caracol, Tamaulipas, Mexico, in the America/Matamoros time zone (−6).
El Caracol, Mexico
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Matamoros
Local time in El Caracol
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in El Caracol.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:56 AM Solar noon 12:24 PM Sunset 5:51 PM Daylight 10 h 54 min Night 13 h 06 min Civil twilight 6:32 AM – 6:15 PM
Weather in El Caracol right now
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El Caracol and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 04739
- 20864
- 23896
- 24353
- 26634
- 29133
- 29140
- 29503
- 30415
- 30416
- 34696
- 34966
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 Caracol
- El Caracol Guanajuato, Mexico
- El Caracol Sinaloa, Mexico
- El Caracol Michoacán, Mexico
- El Caracol Hidalgo, Mexico
- El Caracol Hidalgo, Mexico
Nearby places
- Los Garza (Los Toros) — 1.6 km
- San Angel — 3.6 km
- Alijadores — 4.3 km
- Gem — 4.4 km
- Regina — 4.7 km
- Jornaleros — 5.8 km
Local time details for El Caracol
Los Garza (Los Toros) and San Angel sit nearby and do not run ahead of or behind El Caracol.
Across El Caracol, 12 postal codes are recorded.
The time zone used in El Caracol is America/Matamoros, set at UTC−6. Whether the clocks shift for daylight saving: No.
Sunrise comes to El Caracol at 6:56 AM and sunset at 5:51 PM today. Together that makes 10 h 54 min of light.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone designation is used for El Caracol?
- The designation used for El Caracol is America/Matamoros, with an offset of −6.
- Does the clock in El Caracol move for summer time?
- No.
- At what hour does the sun set in El Caracol?
- At 5:51 PM.