North American time zones:
CDT – Central Daylight Time
Current time in Mexico City
Friday, August 2, 2013 at 2:27:36 PM CDT
Mexico City will stay on CDT until Sunday, October 27, 2013 at 2:00 AMwhen clocks are moved to Sunday, October 27, 2013 at 01:00:00CST
Find local time and time zone for a location
We recommend looking up by location name, not time zone name.Time zone offset: UTC - 5 hours
CDT is 5 hours behind of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)Note that CDT is a daylight saving time/summer time zone. It is generally only used during the summer in the places listed below, during the winter CST is used instead
Time zone abbreviations: CDT, HAC
Full name is Central Daylight TimeHAC – Heure Avancée du Centre (French)
Email time zone indicator: -0500
An email sent from someone in the CDT time zone will have the time zone listed as "-0500" in the headers of the email. (However, "-0500" does not have to be in CDT, as other time zones could have the same UTC offset).
For actual dates DST might be observed, look at the examples belowWhere and when is CDT observed?
US states using CDT in the summer and CST during the winter
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Florida - North-West parts Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton and Washington counties and norther Gulf county
- Illinois
- Indiana - these few north-western counties near Chicago (Lake, Porter, La Porte, Newton, Jasper, Starke) and these south-western counties in Indiana near Evansville Gibson, Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick, Perry
- Iowa
- Kansas - except these western counties
- Kentucky - Western part Adair, Allen, Ballard, Barren, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Clinton, Crittenden, Cumberland, Daviess, Edmonson, Fulton, Graves, Grayson, Green, Hansock, Hart, Henderson, Hickman, Hopkins, Livingston, Logan, Lyon, Marshall, McCracken, McLean, Metcalfe, Monroe, Muhlenberg, Ohio, Russell, Simpson, Todd, Trigg, Union, Warren and Webster counties
- Louisiana
- Michigan - A few western counties Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, and Menominee
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Nebraska - Eastern parts
- North Dakota - North and Eastern parts counties of Barnes, Benson, Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Cass, Cavalier, Dickey, Divide, Eddy, Emmons, Foster, Grand Forks, Griggs, Kidder, Lamoure, Logan, McHenry, McIntosh, McLean, Mountrail, Nelson, Oliver, Pembina, Pierce, Ramsey, Ransom, Renville, Richland, Rolette, Sargent, Sheridan, Steele, Stutsman, Towner, Traill, Walsh, Ward, Wells, Williams and northern parts of McKenzie and Dunn, westernmost part of Morton and Fort Yates in Sioux
- Oklahoma
- South Dakota - Eastern parts counties of Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brown, Brule, Buffalo, Campbell, Charles Mix, Clark, Clay, Codington, Davison, Day, Deuel, Douglas, Edmunds, Faulk, Grant, Gregory, Hamlin, Hand, Hanson, Hughes, Hutchinson, Hyde, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln, Lyman, Marshall, McCook, McPherson, Miner, Minnehaha, Moody, Potter, Roberts, Spink, Sanborn, Sully, Tripp, Turner, Union, Yankton, Walworth and eastern parts of Jones and Stanley
- Tennessee - Western part counties of Bedford, Benton, Bledsoe, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Clay, Coffee, Crockett, Cumberland, Davidson, Decatur, DeKalb, Dickson, Dyer, Fayette, Fentress, Franklin, Gibson, Giles, Grundy, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, Henderson, Henry, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Jackson, Lake, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, McNairy, Macon, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Maury, Montgomery, Moore, Obion, Overton, Perry, Pickett, Putnam, Robertson, Rutherford, Sequatchie, Shelby, Smith, Stewart, Sumner, Tipton, Trusdale, Van Buren, Warren, Wayne Weakley, White, Willamson, Wilson
- Texas - All, but a few counties in west El Paso and Hudspeth and part of Culberson
- Wisconsin
Canadian provinces using CDT in the summer and CST during the winter
- Manitoba
- Nunavut - Kugluktuk, Cambridge Bay only (Other parts use EST/EDT or EST only)
- Ontario - most parts west of 90 West. (Parts east of 90 West is on EST/EDT)
- Saskatchewan - only Creighton and Denare Beach
Mexican states using CDT in the summer and CST during the winter
- Aguascalientes
- Campeche
- Chiapas
- Coahuila
- Colima
- Distrito Federal
- Durango
- Guanajuato
- Guerro
- Hidalgo
- Jalisco
- León
- Michoacán
- Morelos
- México
- Nuevo León
- Oaxaca
- Puebla
- Querétaro
- Quintana Roo
- San Luis Potosí
- Tabasco
- Tamaulipas
- Tlaxcala
- Veracruz
- Yucatán
- Zacatecas
Example location in CDT
- Mexico City - This time zone offset is used during summer in this location
Other time zones in North America
Go directly through the links below, or see the North America time zone list- ADT - Atlantic Daylight Time
- AKDT - Alaska Daylight Time
- AKST - Alaska Standard Time
- AST - Atlantic Standard Time
- CST - Central Standard Time
- EDT - Eastern Daylight Time
- EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
- EGT - East Greenland Time
- EST - Eastern Standard Time
- HADT - Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight Time
- HAST - Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time
- MDT - Mountain Daylight Time
- MST - Mountain Standard Time
- NDT - Newfoundland Daylight Time
- NST - Newfoundland Standard Time
- PDT - Pacific Daylight Time
- PMDT - Pierre & Miquelon Daylight Time
- PMST - Pierre & Miquelon Standard Time
- PST - Pacific Standard Time
- WGST - Western Greenland Summer Time
- WGT - West Greenland Time
Time zones in other regions
- Africa
- Antarctica
- Asia
- Atlantic
- Australia
- Caribbean
- Central America
- Europe
- Indian Ocean
- Military
- Pacific
- South America
Related links
- Time zone abbreviations world-wide
- The World Clock - Time Zones - current time around the world
- The World Clock - Time Zone Converter - Convert between time zones