Vela in numbers
- Coordinates
- 26.3833, -99.2333
- Region
- Tamaulipas
- Country
- Mexico, North America
- Capital
- Mexico City — 773 km away
- Same name
- 15 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Vela, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Watch the current local time in Vela, Tamaulipas, Mexico, running on the America/Monterrey time zone (−6).
Vela, Mexico
Wednesday, 11 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Monterrey
Local time in Vela
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Vela.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:54 AM Solar noon 12:22 PM Sunset 5:50 PM Daylight 10 h 56 min Night 13 h 04 min Civil twilight 6:30 AM – 6:14 PM
Weather in Vela right now
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Vela and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 88390 La Paleta — 4.2 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 Vela
- Vela Dolj, Romania
- Vela Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy
- Vela Lombardy, Italy
- Vela Rogaland, Norway
- Vela Guarda, Portugal
Same time zone — America/Monterrey
Nearby places
- El Rameno — 2.9 km
- Pasito Nuevo — 3.3 km
- Chilpitin — 3.6 km
- Tepehuaje — 5.3 km
- El Canaleno — 5.7 km
- Rancho Penitas — 5.8 km
About the time in Vela
El Rameno and Pasito Nuevo sit nearby and do not run ahead of or behind Vela.
Vela is split into 1 postal code areas.
Hours in Vela are kept by America/Monterrey, standing at UTC−6. Daylight saving observed: No.
The horizon brightens over Vela at 6:54 AM, and the sun sets at 5:50 PM. Daylight runs 10 h 56 min.
Questions and answers
- Where does Vela fall in terms of time zones?
- In terms of time zones, Vela falls within America/Monterrey, with an offset of −6.
- Does the time in Vela vary with the season?
- Daylight saving time in Vela: No.
- Sunset in Vela is at what time?
- At 5:50 PM.