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🇲🇽 Mexico City (UTC−6) · 🇺🇸 Chicago (UTC−5) · 1 hour difference — Chicago is ahead
Best Time to Meet
🇲🇽 09:00–16:00 in Mexico City = 🇺🇸 10:00–17:00 in Chicago7 hours of overlap within standard business hours (09:00–17:00)
24-Hour Schedule
| City | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
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| 🇲🇽 Mexico City | 18:00 | 19:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 | 00:00 | 01:00 | 02:00 | 03:00 | 04:00 | 05:00 | 06:00 | 07:00 | 08:00 | 09:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 |
| 🇺🇸 Chicago | 19:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 | 00:00 | 01:00 | 02:00 | 03:00 | 04:00 | 05:00 | 06:00 | 07:00 | 08:00 | 09:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 |
Quick Reference
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Open Meeting Planner →Mexico City and Chicago share manufacturing as core industries, which is where the traffic between them comes from. Chicago runs 1 hour ahead of Mexico City.
Both cities work Monday to Friday, Mexico City typically 09:00–18:00 and Chicago 08:30–17:30 local time. Watch for Day of the Dead (1–2 November) and Independence Day (16 September) in Mexico City and Thanksgiving (fourth Thursday of November, with the Friday) and Independence Day (4 July) in Chicago. Replies slow in Mexico City during Holy Week and mid-December to 6 January and in Chicago during Thanksgiving week and the last week of December.
Book between 09:00–16:00 in Mexico City (10:00–17:00 in Chicago); 7 hours of overlap means neither side takes the call early or late. Only Chicago changes its clocks, so the gap shifts by an hour twice a year while Mexico City stays put.
Chicago is 1 hour ahead of Mexico City. The gap changes by an hour around the clock changes.
09:00–16:00 Mexico City time, which is 10:00–17:00 in Chicago — the 7-hour stretch when both are inside 09:00–17:00.
Only Chicago does. The gap shifts by an hour twice a year while Mexico City stays on the same offset.
The ones that most often surprise the other side are Day of the Dead (1–2 November) and Independence Day (16 September) in Mexico City and Thanksgiving (fourth Thursday of November, with the Friday) and Independence Day (4 July) in Chicago.
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