Current time in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico right now

It is 12:14 pm in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico 🇲🇽 right now, on Saturday, September 26, 2026. The city keeps America/Mazatlan, which is UTC-7 at UTC-7, so San Jose del Cabo is 7 hours behind of UTC, where it is 7:14 pm. The sun rose in San Jose del Cabo at 6:09 am and sets at 6:11 pm, which is 12 hours 2 minutes of daylight.

What time is it in San Jose del Cabo right now?

The time in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico is 12:14 pm, 12:14 on a 24 hour clock, on Saturday September 26, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the America/Mazatlan rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.

San Jose del Cabo sits at 23.05 degrees north and 109.70 degrees west, inside the tropics, north of the equator and 2,564 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 105.0 degrees west, and the city itself is 4.7 degrees west of that line. Those 4.7 degrees are worth 18 minutes 49 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:10 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.

San Jose del Cabo time zone and UTC offset

The IANA zone for San Jose del Cabo, Mexico is America/Mazatlan. Right now it is running at UTC-7 and the abbreviation in force is UTC-7. San Jose del Cabo does not change its clocks at any point in the year. The offset stays at UTC-7 in January and in July alike, so no conversion involving San Jose del Cabo ever needs a seasonal footnote.

Daylight hours in San Jose del Cabo today

The sun rose in San Jose del Cabo at 6:09 am and sets at 6:11 pm, which is 12 hours 2 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over San Jose del Cabo, is at 12:10 pm, which is 10 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.48 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 65.5 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.

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 San Jose del Cabo, which works from the same coordinates.

Where San Jose del Cabo 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.

Time difference between San Jose del Cabo 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 San Jose del Cabo.

Best time to call San Jose del Cabo

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.

Other cities in Mexico

We cover 145 cities in Mexico. These are the ones nearest to San Jose del Cabo, with the time on their clocks right now.

Cities on America/Mazatlan time

7 of our cities keep America/Mazatlan, so every one of them reads 12:14 pm at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as San Jose del Cabo. Nearest first:

Moon phase over San Jose del Cabo tonight

The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 15.7 days into its cycle and about 99% lit. The next full moon falls on October 25, 2026 at 9:11 pm Mazatlan time, and the next new moon on October 10, 2026 at 8:49 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the San Jose del Cabo clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.

When the clocks change in San Jose del Cabo

There is no clock change scheduled in America/Mazatlan within the next 400 days, so San Jose del Cabo stays at UTC-7 for the whole of that stretch.

That makes San Jose del Cabo 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 San Jose del Cabo is from other cities

Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to San Jose del Cabo is Cabo San Lucas, Mexico at 28 km, and the furthest is Vacoas, Mauritius at 18,656 km, which is 93% of the way to being exactly opposite.

The antipode of San Jose del Cabo

Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from San Jose del Cabo, Mexico and you come out at 23.05 degrees south, 70.30 degrees east. That point is in the Indian Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Vacoas, Mauritius, 1,359 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 11:14 pm on Saturday.

The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 23.05 degrees north becomes 23.05 degrees south, and 109.70 degrees west becomes 70.30 degrees east. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: San Jose del Cabo is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC+5, roughly twelve hours from San Jose del Cabo, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.

Sunrise and sunset in San Jose del Cabo

Today the sun rises in San Jose del Cabo at 6:09 am and sets at 6:11 pm, giving 12 hours 2 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 San Jose del Cabo.

Sun and moon in San Jose del Cabo today

The sun is up in San Jose del Cabo for 12 hours 2 minutes today, from 6:09 am to 6:11 pm. The moon sets in San Jose del Cabo at 6:03 am and comes up again at 6:11 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.

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.

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.

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.

Prayer times in San Jose del Cabo

Seven days from September 26, 2026, computed for San Jose del Cabo, Mexico at 23.05 degrees north, 109.70 degrees west, on the clock of America/Mazatlan. 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.

Dhuhr is solar noon at San Jose del Cabo, 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 San Jose del Cabo

From San Jose del Cabo, Mexico the qibla is 36.0 degrees on a true compass, which is northeast, or 36.0 degrees east of due north. The Kaaba is 14,069 km away, 8,742 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from San Jose del Cabo, 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 San Jose del Cabo, 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.

San Jose del Cabo time now: common questions

What time is it in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico right now?

12:14 pm on Saturday September 26, 2026. San Jose del Cabo runs on UTC-7, UTC-7.

What time zone is San Jose del Cabo in?

America/Mazatlan, currently UTC-7 at UTC-7. 7 of the cities on this site keep that zone.

What is the UTC offset for San Jose del Cabo?

UTC-7 at this instant. It is UTC-7 all year round, with no seasonal change.

Does San Jose del Cabo observe daylight saving time?

No. San Jose del Cabo stays on UTC-7 for the whole year.

How many hours ahead or behind is San Jose del Cabo of New York?

San Jose del Cabo is 3 hours behind of New York, where it is 3:14 pm right now.

What time does the sun set in San Jose del Cabo today?

6:11 pm, after a sunrise at 6:09 am and 12 hours 2 minutes of daylight.

What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from San Jose del Cabo?

23.05 degrees south, 70.30 degrees east, in the Indian Ocean.

When is the best time to call San Jose del Cabo from London?

Between 9:00 am and 10:00 am in San Jose del Cabo, which is 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm in London.

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