El Caracol in numbers
- Coordinates
- 27.0273, -99.5683
- Region
- Tamaulipas
- Country
- Mexico, North America
- Capital
- Mexico City — 846 km away
- Same name
- 175 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Caracol, Tamaulipas, Mexico
This page tells you the time right now in El Caracol, Tamaulipas, Mexico, in the America/Monterrey zone (−6).
El Caracol, Mexico
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Monterrey
Local time in El Caracol
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Local time in El Caracol, Tamaulipas.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:56 AM Solar noon 12:23 PM Sunset 5:51 PM Daylight 10 h 55 min Night 13 h 05 min Civil twilight 6:31 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
Same time zone — America/Monterrey
Nearby places
- Ferrer — 3.4 km
- Novillo Barroso — 4.2 km
- El Calicanto — 4.8 km
- Zancudo — 4.9 km
- El Salitrillo — 5.4 km
- Los Escarbaderos — 5.5 km
Time and daylight in El Caracol
El Caracol appears under 12 postal codes.
El Caracol sits in the America/Monterrey time zone, which runs at UTC−6. Daylight saving time: No.
For El Caracol today, sunrise is 6:56 AM and sunset is 5:51 PM. Daylight lasts 10 h 55 min.
The same hours are kept in El Caracol and in nearby Ferrer and Novillo Barroso.
Questions and answers
- How is the time zone for El Caracol identified?
- The time zone for El Caracol is identified as America/Monterrey, with an offset of −6.
- Does the clock in El Caracol move for summer time?
- No.
- Looking for sunrise and sunset in El Caracol — what are they?
- Sunrise at 6:56 AM, sunset at 5:51 PM.