Current time in Playa del Carmen, Mexico right now
It is 10:18 pm in Playa del Carmen, Mexico 🇲🇽 right now, on Saturday, September 26, 2026. The city keeps America/Cancun, which is EST at UTC-5, so Playa del Carmen is 5 hours behind of UTC, where it is 3:18 am. The sun rose in Playa del Carmen at 6:38 am and sets at 6:41 pm, which is 12 hours 3 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Playa del Carmen right now?
The time in Playa del Carmen, Mexico is 10:18 pm, 22:18 on a 24 hour clock, on Saturday September 26, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the America/Cancun rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Playa del Carmen sits at 20.63 degrees north and 87.08 degrees west, inside the tropics, north of the equator and 2,294 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 75.0 degrees west, and the city itself is 12.1 degrees west of that line. Those 12.1 degrees are worth 48 minutes 19 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:40 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Playa del Carmen time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Playa del Carmen, Mexico is America/Cancun. Right now it is running at UTC-5 and the abbreviation in force is EST. Playa del Carmen does not change its clocks at any point in the year. The offset stays at UTC-5 in January and in July alike, so no conversion involving Playa del Carmen ever needs a seasonal footnote.
Daylight hours in Playa del Carmen today
The sun rose in Playa del Carmen at 6:38 am and sets at 6:41 pm, which is 12 hours 3 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Playa del Carmen, is at 12:40 pm, which is 40 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.45 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 67.9 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Playa del Carmen |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 6:38 am |
| Sunset | 6:41 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:40 pm |
| Day length | 12 hours 3 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 6:12 pm to 6:54 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 7:03 pm |
The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Playa del Carmen, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Playa del Carmen is on the map
The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.
An interactive map of Playa del Carmen. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Playa del Carmen on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Playa del Carmen and major cities
Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Playa del Carmen.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Playa del Carmen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 8:18 pm | -2 | 2 hours behind of Playa del Carmen |
| Chicago, Illinois | 10:18 pm | 0 | same time as Playa del Carmen |
| New York, New York | 11:18 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Playa del Carmen |
| Toronto, Canada | 11:18 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Playa del Carmen |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 12:18 am | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Playa del Carmen |
| London, United Kingdom | 4:18 am | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Playa del Carmen |
| Paris, France | 5:18 am | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Playa del Carmen |
| Berlin, Germany | 5:18 am | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Playa del Carmen |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 5:18 am | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Playa del Carmen |
| Moscow, Russia | 6:18 am | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Playa del Carmen |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 7:18 am | +9 | 9 hours ahead of Playa del Carmen |
| Delhi, India | 8:48 am | +10:30 | 10 hours 30 minutes ahead of Playa del Carmen |
| Singapore, Singapore | 11:18 am | +13 | 13 hours ahead of Playa del Carmen |
| Hong Kong, China | 11:18 am | +13 | 13 hours ahead of Playa del Carmen |
| Tokyo, Japan | 12:18 pm | +14 | 14 hours ahead of Playa del Carmen |
| Sydney, Australia | 1:18 pm | +15 | 15 hours ahead of Playa del Carmen |
Best time to call Playa del Carmen
Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Playa del Carmen | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | +1 | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm |
| Los Angeles | -2 | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm |
| London | +6 | 9:00 am to 12:00 pm | 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Delhi | +10:30 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| Sydney | +15 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
Other cities in Mexico
We cover 145 cities in Mexico. These are the ones nearest to Playa del Carmen, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cancun | Quintana Roo | 10:18 pm | UTC-5 |
| Merida | Yucatan | 9:18 pm | UTC-6 |
| Chetumal | Quintana Roo | 10:18 pm | UTC-5 |
| Campeche | Campeche | 9:18 pm | UTC-6 |
| Ciudad del Carmen | Campeche | 9:18 pm | UTC-6 |
| Villahermosa | Tabasco | 9:18 pm | UTC-6 |
| Comitan | Chiapas | 9:18 pm | UTC-6 |
| San Cristobal de las Casas | Chiapas | 9:18 pm | UTC-6 |
| Tuxtla | Chiapas | 9:18 pm | UTC-6 |
| Coatzacoalcos | Veracruz | 9:18 pm | UTC-6 |
| Minatitlan | Veracruz | 9:18 pm | UTC-6 |
| Tapachula | Chiapas | 9:18 pm | UTC-6 |
| Veracruz | Veracruz | 9:18 pm | UTC-6 |
| Tuxtepec | Oaxaca | 9:18 pm | UTC-6 |
| Xalapa de Enriquez | Veracruz | 9:18 pm | UTC-6 |
| Cordoba | Veracruz | 9:18 pm | UTC-6 |
Cities on America/Cancun time
3 of our cities keep America/Cancun, so every one of them reads 10:18 pm at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Playa del Carmen. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Playa del Carmen |
|---|---|---|
| Cancun, Mexico | 10:18 pm | 64 km |
| Chetumal, Mexico | 10:18 pm | 267 km |
Moon phase over Playa del Carmen tonight
The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 16.0 days into its cycle and about 98% lit. The next full moon falls on October 25, 2026 at 11:11 pm Cancun time, and the next new moon on October 10, 2026 at 10:49 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Playa del Carmen clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Playa del Carmen
There is no clock change scheduled in America/Cancun within the next 400 days, so Playa del Carmen stays at UTC-5 for the whole of that stretch.
That makes Playa del Carmen an easy city to schedule against: a meeting fixed at a given hour here holds its relationship to UTC all year, and only the other end of the call can move.
How far Playa del Carmen is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Playa del Carmen is Cancun, Mexico at 64 km, and the furthest is Pelabuhanratu, Indonesia at 17,905 km, which is 89% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cancun, Mexico | 64 | 40 | north | 10:18 pm |
| Merida, Mexico | 267 | 166 | west | 9:18 pm |
| Chetumal, Mexico | 267 | 166 | south west | 10:18 pm |
| Campeche, Mexico | 369 | 229 | west | 9:18 pm |
| Pinar del Rio, Cuba | 403 | 250 | north east | 11:18 pm |
| Puerto Cortez, Honduras | 541 | 336 | south | 9:18 pm |
| La Ceiba, Honduras | 542 | 337 | south | 9:18 pm |
| Ciudad del Carmen, Mexico | 544 | 338 | south west | 9:18 pm |
| Balcon de la Lisa, Cuba | 549 | 341 | north east | 11:18 pm |
| Boyeros, Cuba | 551 | 342 | north east | 11:18 pm |
The antipode of Playa del Carmen
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Playa del Carmen, Mexico and you come out at 20.63 degrees south, 92.92 degrees east. That point is in the Indian Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Pelabuhanratu, Indonesia, 2,111 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 10:18 am on Sunday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 20.63 degrees north becomes 20.63 degrees south, and 87.08 degrees west becomes 92.92 degrees east. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Playa del Carmen is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC+7, roughly twelve hours from Playa del Carmen, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Playa del Carmen
Today the sun rises in Playa del Carmen at 6:38 am and sets at 6:41 pm, giving 12 hours 3 minutes of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Playa del Carmen.
Weather in Playa del Carmen right now
27°C (81°F), clear sky
| Conditions | Clear sky |
|---|---|
| Wind | 8 km/h (5 mph) from the E, a light breeze |
| Humidity | 84% |
| Cloud cover | 12% |
| Pressure | 1013 hPa |
| Rain in the next hour | none forecast |
Reading taken 24 minutes ago, local time 9 PM in Playa del Carmen.
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Hourly forecast for Playa del Carmen
The next 24 hours, in Playa del Carmen local time. Temperatures are given in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
- 10 PM 27°C 81°F Fair 7 km/h
- 11 PM 27°C 80°F Fair 6 km/h
- 12 AM 27°C 80°F Clear sky 6 km/h
- 1 AM 27°C 80°F Fair 6 km/h
- 2 AM 27°C 80°F Fair 6 km/h
- 3 AM 27°C 80°F Clear sky 7 km/h
- 4 AM 26°C 79°F Clear sky 6 km/h
- 5 AM 26°C 79°F Clear sky 6 km/h
- 6 AM 25°C 78°F Clear sky 6 km/h
- 7 AM 25°C 78°F Fair 5 km/h
- 8 AM 28°C 82°F Fair 6 km/h
- 9 AM 30°C 86°F Partly cloudy 6 km/h
- 10 AM 31°C 88°F Light rain showers 7 km/h 0.2 mm
- 11 AM 32°C 89°F Cloudy 10 km/h
- 12 PM 32°C 90°F Cloudy 10 km/h
- 1 PM 32°C 90°F Light rain 10 km/h 0.2 mm
- 2 PM 32°C 89°F Light rain showers 10 km/h 0.2 mm
- 3 PM 31°C 88°F Rain 11 km/h 0.8 mm
- 4 PM 29°C 84°F Light rain showers 9 km/h 0.2 mm
- 5 PM 29°C 84°F Cloudy 9 km/h
- 6 PM 28°C 83°F Partly cloudy 13 km/h
- 7 PM 27°C 81°F Partly cloudy 13 km/h
- 8 PM 27°C 81°F Partly cloudy 10 km/h
- 9 PM 27°C 81°F Partly cloudy 8 km/h
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
7-day forecast for Playa del Carmen
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 26 Sep | 27°C / 81°F | 27°C / 80°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Sun 27 Sep | 32°C / 90°F | 25°C / 78°F | Cloudy | 1.6 mm |
| Mon 28 Sep | 32°C / 90°F | 24°C / 76°F | Light rain | 3.9 mm |
| Tue 29 Sep | 30°C / 86°F | 24°C / 74°F | Heavy rain showers | 11.1 mm |
| Wed 30 Sep | 26°C / 78°F | 23°C / 74°F | Heavy rain | 20.5 mm |
| Thu 1 Oct | 26°C / 79°F | 24°C / 75°F | Heavy rain | 27.3 mm |
| Fri 2 Oct | 26°C / 78°F | 24°C / 76°F | Heavy rain | 25.9 mm |
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Sun and moon in Playa del Carmen today
The sun is up in Playa del Carmen for 12 hours 3 minutes today, from 6:38 am to 6:41 pm. The moon sets in Playa del Carmen at 6:29 am and comes up again at 6:39 pm. The next phase is the last quarter on October 3, 2026. The moon is full, or as near to it as makes no difference, and the whole of the face turned towards us is lit.
| Sun | Time in Playa del Carmen |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:25 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:50 am |
| Civil dawn | 6:16 am |
| Sunrise | 6:38 am |
| Solar noon | 12:40 pm |
| Sunset | 6:41 pm |
| Civil dusk | 7:03 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 7:28 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:54 pm |
Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.
| Light band | Time in Playa del Carmen | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 6:16 am to 6:25 am | 0h 09m |
| Morning golden hour | 6:25 am to 7:07 am | 0h 43m |
| Evening golden hour | 6:12 pm to 6:54 pm | 0h 43m |
| Evening blue hour | 6:54 pm to 7:03 pm | 0h 09m |
Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.
| Moon | Reading in Playa del Carmen |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:39 pm |
| Moonset | 6:29 am |
| Phase | waning gibbous, waning |
| Illumination | 100% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 15.6 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 379,400 km |
Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.
Meeting planner: Playa del Carmen and four other places
Every hour of Saturday, September 26, 2026 in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, read across 4 other places. Columns are Playa del Carmen local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
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| Playa del Carmen local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playa del CarmenEST UTC-5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPDT UTC-7 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 0+1 |
| LondonBST UTC+1 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 0+1 | 1+1 | 2+1 | 3+1 | 4+1 | 5+1 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 | 21:30 | 22:30 | 23:30 | 0:30+1 | 1:30+1 | 2:30+1 | 3:30+1 | 4:30+1 | 5:30+1 | 6:30+1 | 7:30+1 | 8:30+1 | 9:30+1 |
No hour on Saturday, September 26, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Los Angeles and Delhi are 12 hours 30 minutes apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 9:00 am in Playa del Carmen it is working hours in Playa del Carmen, New York and London, but outside them in Los Angeles and Delhi. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Playa del Carmen
Seven days from September 26, 2026, computed for Playa del Carmen, Mexico at 20.63 degrees north, 87.08 degrees west, on the clock of America/Cancun. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday September 26 | 5:25 am | 6:38 am | 12:40 pm | 4:04 pm | 6:41 pm | 7:50 pm |
| Sunday September 27 | 5:25 am | 6:38 am | 12:39 pm | 4:03 pm | 6:40 pm | 7:49 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 5:25 am | 6:39 am | 12:39 pm | 4:03 pm | 6:39 pm | 7:48 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 5:25 am | 6:39 am | 12:39 pm | 4:02 pm | 6:38 pm | 7:47 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 5:26 am | 6:39 am | 12:38 pm | 4:02 pm | 6:37 pm | 7:46 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 5:26 am | 6:39 am | 12:38 pm | 4:01 pm | 6:36 pm | 7:45 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 5:26 am | 6:40 am | 12:38 pm | 4:01 pm | 6:35 pm | 7:44 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Playa del Carmen, Mexico, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.
Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.
Qibla direction from Playa del Carmen
From Playa del Carmen, Mexico the qibla is 54.1 degrees on a true compass, which is northeast, or 35.9 degrees north of due east. The Kaaba is 12,591 km away, 7,824 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Playa del Carmen, Mexico to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.
The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Playa del Carmen, Mexico before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.
Put a Playa del Carmen clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads America/Cancun from the time zone database, so it stays right when Playa del Carmen changes its clocks, and it shows EST to every visitor wherever they are reading from. It is a plain iframe: no account, no script to install, nothing to pay.
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Playa del Carmen time now: common questions
- What time is it in Playa del Carmen, Mexico right now?
- 10:18 pm on Saturday September 26, 2026. Playa del Carmen runs on EST, UTC-5.
- What time zone is Playa del Carmen in?
- America/Cancun, currently EST at UTC-5. 3 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Playa del Carmen?
- UTC-5 at this instant. It is UTC-5 all year round, with no seasonal change.
- Does Playa del Carmen observe daylight saving time?
- No. Playa del Carmen stays on UTC-5 for the whole year.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Playa del Carmen of New York?
- Playa del Carmen is 1 hour behind of New York, where it is 11:18 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Playa del Carmen today?
- 6:41 pm, after a sunrise at 6:38 am and 12 hours 3 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Playa del Carmen?
- 20.63 degrees south, 92.92 degrees east, in the Indian Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Playa del Carmen from London?
- Between 9:00 am and 12:00 pm in Playa del Carmen, which is 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm in London.
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