Time in Playa del Carmen, Mexico

Time zone: EST (UTC/GMT -05:00) — America/Cancun

Playa del Carmen runs on EST. That places it 5 hours behind UTC (UTC-05:00); in a calendar, server config or booking form, select America/Cancun.

There is no daylight saving in Playa del Carmen. UTC-05:00 applies all year, so the offset never moves on this side — only the other party's clock changes.

Mexico is not on a single clock: the 101 cities listed here fall across 10 time zones, so times elsewhere in the country will not match Playa del Carmen.

Around 149,923 people live in Playa del Carmen, making it the 78th largest of the 100 Mexico cities covered here.

Read this as: relative to each city below, Playa del Carmen is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.

Usable call slots from Playa del Carmen, taking business hours as 09:00 to 17:00 in both places.

No shared working window exists with Dubai, Mumbai, Shanghai or Tokyo, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.

Same zone, same time — each of these sits on America/Cancun alongside Playa del Carmen, including through any clock change.

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