Current time in Guadalajara, Mexico
The current local time in Guadalajara is shown below. Guadalajara observes CST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Guadalajara 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/Mexico_City
- Standard abbreviation
- CST
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇲🇽 Mexico
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Guadalajara?
Guadalajara uses Central Standard Time at UTC-6, the same offset as Mexico City. Mexico abolished daylight saving across most of the country in October 2022, including Jalisco, so the city now stays on CST year-round. The narrow strip of municipalities along the US border remains aligned with US DST for cross-border trade reasons, but Guadalajara's longitude at around 103 degrees west sits well west of the previous standard meridian, leaving wall time roughly 25 minutes ahead of solar noon.
What are the working hours in Guadalajara?
Manufacturing (electronics, automotive components, food and beverage), tequila production in the surrounding municipalities (the protected designation of origin), and an expanding technology services sector anchor the working economy. Office hours follow Mexican norms of 09:00 to 18:00 with an extended lunch around 14:00 to 16:00 in older businesses. The Romería de la Virgen de Zapopan in October and the Fiestas de Octubre month-long festival are the city's most significant local calendar events alongside the national holiday calendar.
Where is Guadalajara?
Guadalajara is the capital of Jalisco state in western Mexico, the country's second-largest metropolitan area after Mexico City. The city proper holds around 1.4 million residents and the wider metropolitan area roughly 5.3 million. It sits at around 1,560 metres elevation in the Atemajac Valley, with the Sierra Madre Occidental rising to the west. The historic centre, organised around the cathedral and a series of inter-connected plazas, retains an unusually preserved colonial Spanish urban layout. Tlaquepaque and Tonalá, traditional craft centres, lie within the metropolitan boundary.