El Caracol in numbers
- Coordinates
- 27.5380, -99.6458
- Region
- Tamaulipas
- Country
- Mexico, North America
- Capital
- Mexico City — 903 km away
- Same name
- 175 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Caracol, Tamaulipas, Mexico
The time in El Caracol, Tamaulipas, Mexico at this very moment is shown below, in the America/Matamoros 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 6:57 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 Artistas Segunda Etapa — 5.4 km
- Los Santos — 6.0 km
- La Cruz — 6.2 km
- Rancho El Indio — 6.2 km
- Pendencia — 6.3 km
- Los Garza — 6.6 km
Local time details for El Caracol
The sun is up at 6:57 AM in El Caracol and down again at 5:51 PM. Between those times there are 10 h 54 min of daylight.
Same time, different place: Los Artistas Segunda Etapa and Los Santos near El Caracol.
The mail network in El Caracol covers 12 codes.
The zone that governs El Caracol is America/Matamoros at UTC−6. Whether the clocks move seasonally: No.
Questions and answers
- Does El Caracol use the America/Matamoros time zone?
- Yes, El Caracol uses America/Matamoros, with an offset of −6.
- Is daylight saving time observed at this location, El Caracol?
- Daylight saving time in El Caracol: No.
- How late does the sun set in El Caracol?
- The last sunlight comes at 5:51 PM.