El Cristal in numbers
- Coordinates
- 22.4184, -99.0711
- Region
- Tamaulipas
- Country
- Mexico, North America
- Capital
- Mexico City — 333 km away
- Same name
- 16 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Cristal, Tamaulipas, Mexico
See what time it currently is in El Cristal, Tamaulipas, Mexico — the time zone there is America/Monterrey (−6).
El Cristal, Mexico
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Monterrey
Local time in El Cristal
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Local time in El Cristal, Tamaulipas.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:47 AM Solar noon 12:21 PM Sunset 5:56 PM Daylight 11 h 09 min Night 12 h 51 min Civil twilight 6:24 AM – 6:19 PM
Weather in El Cristal right now
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El Cristal and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 58487
- 67850
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 Cristal
- El Cristal Nuevo León, Mexico
- El Cristal Michoacán, Mexico
- El Cristal Matagalpa Department, Nicaragua
- El Cristal Putumayo Department, Colombia
- El Cristal Santiago de Cuba Province, Cuba
Same time zone — America/Monterrey
Nearby places
- El Sabino Del Obispo — 1.2 km
- Las Pitas — 6.1 km
- Los Bagres — 7.0 km
- San Antonio Numero Uno — 8.1 km
- El Barranco — 9.7 km
- Las Piedras — 10.1 km
About the time in El Cristal
El Cristal keeps the same time as its neighbours El Sabino Del Obispo and Las Pitas.
There are 2 postal code zones in El Cristal.
El Cristal uses the America/Monterrey time zone with a UTC−6 offset. Whether daylight saving time is used: No.
Sunrise today is 6:47 AM in El Cristal, with sunset at 5:56 PM. That works out to 11 h 09 min of light.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is used by El Cristal?
- El Cristal uses the America/Monterrey time zone, which has an offset of −6.
- Does the time in El Cristal vary with the season?
- Daylight saving time in El Cristal: No.
- When is the sun down in El Cristal?
- The sun goes down at 5:56 PM.