El Refugio in numbers
- Coordinates
- 25.8461, -97.6678
- Population
- 56
- Region
- Tamaulipas
- Country
- Mexico, North America
- Capital
- Mexico City — 729 km away
- Same name
- 489 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Refugio, Tamaulipas, Mexico
What follows is the current local time in El Refugio, Tamaulipas, Mexico, in the America/Matamoros zone (−6).
El Refugio, Mexico
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Matamoros
Local time in El Refugio
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
El Refugio keeps America/Matamoros clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:46 AM Solar noon 12:16 PM Sunset 5:45 PM Daylight 10 h 59 min Night 13 h 01 min Civil twilight 6:22 AM – 6:09 PM
Weather in El Refugio right now
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El Refugio and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 20305
- 20656
- 20663
- 20913
- 21138
- 21440
- 22253
- 23285
- 23541
- 24643
- 25354
- 26133
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 Refugio
- El Refugio Jalisco, Mexico
- El Refugio Jalisco, Mexico
- El Refugio Morelos, Mexico
- El Refugio Zacatecas, Mexico
- El Refugio Guerrero, Mexico
Nearby places
- Refugio Portilleno — 0.4 km
- El Crucero — 0.9 km
- Colonia El Barrileno — 2.1 km
- Antonio Silva — 2.9 km
- Tanque Alegre — 3.3 km
- Laguna Larga — 3.6 km
Time and daylight in El Refugio
The sun comes up over El Refugio at 6:46 AM today and drops below the horizon at 5:45 PM. That is 10 h 59 min between the two.
If you are looking near El Refugio, both Refugio Portilleno and El Crucero keep the same time.
The mail network in El Refugio covers 12 codes.
El Refugio uses the America/Matamoros time zone with a UTC−6 offset. Whether daylight saving time is used: No.
Questions and answers
- How should the time zone of El Refugio be stated?
- It should be stated as America/Matamoros, with an offset of −6.
- Does El Refugio observe daylight saving time?
- No.
- What time does the sun set in El Refugio?
- The sun sets in El Refugio at 5:45 PM.