At 2 a.m. tomorrow Sunday April 7, you should set your clocks forward one hour to observe the time change required by Daylight Savings Time in most of Mexico.
In most of Mexico, including its capital Mexico City, Daylight Saving Time (DST) runs from the 1st Sunday of April to the last Sunday of October. However, there are several exceptions:
- The state of Sonora does not change its clocks. The rationale is to stay in sync with the neighboring US state of Arizona, where Mountain Standard Time (MST) is observed all year.
- Quintana Roo has opted out of following the country’s DST regime. Following the establishment of its own time zone in 2015, Mexico’s easternmost state is observing EST year-round.
- The state of Baja California and many other locations close to the country’s northern border follow the DST schedule of the United States. This includes cities like Tijuana, Ciudad Juárez, and Ojinaga. Here, the DST period starts on the 2nd Sunday in March and ends on the 1st Sunday in November.
Mexico adopted daylight saving time (Spanish: horario de verano) nationwide in 1996, even in its tropical regions, because of its increasing economic ties to the United States. Although the United States changed the schedule for DST beginning in 2007, only the municipalities located less than 20 km from the border have adopted the change. Daylight saving time for Mexico begins the first Sunday of April and ends last Sunday of October; and is usually referred to as the “Summer Schedule” (Horario de Verano).[1]
MID-POINT Newsroom with info from Timeanddate.com and Wikipedia
