Current time in Cancún, Mexico
3:45:08 AM
Monday, October 26, 2026
Cancún is on Eastern Standard Time (EST), UTC−5. It doesn't change its clocks: the time zone database has no changes scheduled for the next 12 months.
About 889,000 people live in Cancún, Mexico. Scheduled flights use Cancún International Airport (CUN, 15 km away) and Cozumel International Airport (CZM, 74 km away).
- Time zone
- America/Cancun
- UTC offset now
- UTC−5
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Sunrise today
- 6:46 AM
- Sunset today
- 6:15 PM
- Daylight
- 11 h 29 min
- Population
- 888,797
- Currency
- Peso (MXN)
- Dialing code
- +52
- Languages (country)
- Spanish
- Airports
- CUN 15 km · CZM 74 km
Cities near Cancún
- Havana4:45 AM · +1 h509 km away
- Guatemala City2:45 AM · −1 h823 km away
- Miami4:45 AM · +1 h849 km away
- Houston3:45 AM · ±0 h1,281 km away
- San José2:45 AM · −1 h1,284 km away
- Mexico City2:45 AM · −1 h1,295 km away
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