El Principio in numbers
- Coordinates
- 24.2581, -98.8180
- Region
- Tamaulipas
- Country
- Mexico, North America
- Capital
- Mexico City — 538 km away
- Same name
- 9 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Principio, Tamaulipas, Mexico
The current local time in El Principio, Tamaulipas, Mexico — time zone America/Monterrey (−6) — is shown right here.
El Principio, Mexico
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Monterrey
Local time in El Principio
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Local time in El Principio, Tamaulipas.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:49 AM Solar noon 12:20 PM Sunset 5:52 PM Daylight 11 h 04 min Night 12 h 56 min Civil twilight 6:25 AM – 6:16 PM
Weather in El Principio right now
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El Principio and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 87733 Benito Juárez (La Coma) — 12.6 km away
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 Principio
- El Principio Oaxaca, Mexico
- El Principio Veracruz, Mexico
- El Principio Veracruz, Mexico
- El Principio Tamaulipas, Mexico
- El Principio Sucre Department, Colombia
Same time zone — America/Monterrey
Nearby places
- Rio Verde — 0.1 km
- La Avioneta — 2.2 km
- La Chona — 2.5 km
- Los Quiotes — 4.0 km
- San Leonardo — 5.2 km
- Santa Cruz — 5.5 km
Local time details for El Principio
Across El Principio, 1 postal code is recorded.
El Principio reads its time from America/Monterrey, placed at UTC−6. Whether daylight saving time is observed: No.
Sunrise happens at 6:49 AM in El Principio today and sunset at 5:52 PM. That marks 11 h 04 min of daylight.
Neighbouring Rio Verde and La Avioneta keep the same hours as El Principio.
Questions and answers
- Which local time zone does El Principio follow?
- El Principio follows America/Monterrey, with an offset of −6.
- Does El Principio go on summer time?
- Daylight saving in El Principio: No.
- What time does the sun rise in El Principio?
- The sun rises in El Principio at 6:49 AM.