El Paso, United States · UTC-6
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El Paso is in the America/Denver timezone (MST/UTC-7, shifting to MDT/UTC-6 during daylight saving time).
El Paso is Texas’s westernmost major city, and it’s the only significant Texas city on Mountain Time rather than Central Time. The IANA identifier America/Denver covers El Paso. While Dallas and Houston run on Central Time, El Paso sits 750 miles west at a longitude that naturally falls in the Mountain timezone.
a city more connected to New Mexico than Texas
The practical reason for Mountain Time in El Paso is its connection to Ciudad Juárez, directly across the Rio Grande in Mexico, and to Albuquerque and Santa Fe in New Mexico. El Paso’s economic and social connections run west toward New Mexico and the Mountain West, not east toward the rest of Texas. The two-hour time difference between El Paso and Houston is an accurate reflection of how disconnected the two cities are by culture, economy, and geography.
The El Paso-Ciudad Juárez border crossing is among the busiest in the world, and since 2022, both sides of the border keep the same clock (Ciudad Juárez switched to US Mountain Time rules to match El Paso). The alignment was a direct response to the friction caused when the clocks were mismatched for parts of the year.
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Sources
- IANA Time Zone Database
- National Weather Service El Paso
- Timmons, W.H. El Paso: A Borderlands History. Texas Western Press, 1990.
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Questions about time in El Paso
- What timezone is El Paso in?
- El Paso is in Mountain Time (MT), using the IANA timezone
America/Denver. The standard UTC offset is UTC-7 (MST) in winter and UTC-6 (MDT) during daylight saving time. - Does El Paso observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. El Paso observes daylight saving time, shifting from UTC-7 (standard time) to UTC-6 in summer.
- What is the current UTC offset for El Paso?
- El Paso is currently at UTC-6. It is currently observing daylight saving time.
- What is the time difference between El Paso and New York?
- El Paso is currently 2 hours behind New York.
- What is the time difference between El Paso and London?
- El Paso is currently 7 hours behind London.
- What is the time difference between El Paso and Los Angeles?
- El Paso is currently 1 hour ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the time difference between El Paso and Tokyo?
- El Paso is currently 15 hours behind Tokyo. Tokyo does not observe daylight saving time, so this gap changes by 1 hour when El Paso transitions to/from DST.
- What is the IANA timezone name for El Paso?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for El Paso is
America/Denver. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'America/Denver' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('America/Denver')`), or any IANA-compatible library.