El Faro in numbers
- Coordinates
- 26.2042, -98.5017
- Population
- 101
- Region
- Tamaulipas
- Country
- Mexico, North America
- Capital
- Mexico City — 756 km away
- Same name
- 77 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Faro, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Watch the current local time in El Faro, Tamaulipas, Mexico, running on the America/Matamoros time zone (−5).
El Faro, Mexico
Saturday, 31 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Matamoros
Local time in El Faro
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
Local time in El Faro, Tamaulipas.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:43 AM Solar noon 1:19 PM Sunset 6:54 PM Daylight 11 h 11 min Night 12 h 49 min Civil twilight 7:20 AM – 7:18 PM
Weather in El Faro right now
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El Faro and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 21730
- 27477
- 29904
- 30427
- 31633
- 32750
- 33970
- 34746
- 36118
- 37353
- 56744
- 70902
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 Faro
- El Faro Oaxaca, Mexico
- El Faro Chiapas, Mexico
- El Faro Chihuahua, Mexico
- El Faro Chiapas, Mexico
- El Faro Jalisco, Mexico
Nearby places
- Algodonera Banjidal — 0.5 km
- El Ausente — 1.2 km
- El Carrizal — 1.3 km
- Horacio Hernández (La Casa De Piedra) — 1.6 km
- Nicanor González (El Mono) — 2.2 km
- Argueelles — 3.4 km
El Faro: clock, sun and surroundings
Morning light reaches El Faro at 7:43 AM, and the sun sets at 6:54 PM. Daylight lasts a total of 11 h 11 min.
Close by, Algodonera Banjidal and El Ausente keep time with El Faro.
El Faro accounts for 12 postal codes.
The time zone here in El Faro is America/Matamoros, offset UTC−5. Does daylight saving apply? Yes.
Questions and answers
- Which zone should be used to show the time in El Faro?
- Use America/Matamoros to show the time in El Faro; its offset is −5.
- Does El Faro switch between standard time and daylight saving time?
- Daylight saving time in El Faro: Yes.
- When does evening light leave El Faro?
- At 6:54 PM.