Current time in Cozumel, Mexico
The current local time in Cozumel is shown below. Cozumel observes EST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Cozumel does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- America/Cancun
- Standard abbreviation
- EST
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇲🇽 Mexico
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Cozumel?
Cozumel uses Eastern Standard Time at UTC-5 year-round, having shifted with Quintana Roo state in 2015 from the previous Central Time. The change aligned the state with US Eastern Time during winter and with the tourist market originating on the US East Coast. The state does not observe daylight saving, producing a one-hour shift relative to New York's clock during US summer. The arrangement places Cozumel in the same offset as Cancún on the mainland coast, with no time change across the channel.
What are the working hours in Cozumel?
Cozumel's working economy depends almost entirely on cruise tourism, with the island typically receiving over 1,000 ship calls annually (the highest of any Caribbean port). The international airport handles flights primarily from US tourist gateways. Office hours run 09:00 to 18:00 in the conventional sectors, with retail and hospitality opening to ship-arrival schedules and extending into the evening when cruise ships are in port. Mexican public holidays apply, with the December religious observances producing peak Christmas-week occupancy.
Where is Cozumel?
Cozumel is an island off the eastern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, around 19 kilometres east of the Quintana Roo mainland coast at Playa del Carmen. The island is roughly 48 kilometres long and 15 kilometres wide, with a permanent population of around 90,000 concentrated in the western coast town of San Miguel. The flat coral landscape produces some of the clearest diving water in the Caribbean, with the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef extending along the western shore. Hurricane Wilma in 2005 caused substantial structural damage from which recovery took several years.