Central Time Zone

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The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time

zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central Central Time Zone (North America)
America, some Caribbean Islands, and part of the Eastern
Pacific Ocean.

Central Standard Time (CST) is six hours behind

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). During summer most
(but not all) of the zone uses daylight saving time (DST),
and changes to Central Daylight Time (CDT) which is five
hours behind UTC.

Contents
1 Regions using (North American) Central Time
1.1 Canada Regions in the Central Time Zone prior to 2015
1.2 United States (Quintana Roo is now in the Eastern Time Zone)
1.3 Mexico UTC offset
1.4 Central America and Caribbean Islands
1.5 Eastern Pacific islands and other areas CST UTC6:00
2 Central Daylight Time CDT UTC5:00
3 Alphabetical list of major Central Time Zone
metropolitan areas
4 See also Observance of DST
5 References DST is observed in certain regions of this time zone
6 External links between the 2nd Sunday in March and the 1st
Sunday in November.
DST began Mar 12, 2017
Regions using (North American) DST ends Nov 5, 2017
Central Time
Canada

The province of Manitoba is the only province or territory in Canada that observes Central Time in all areas.

The following Canadian provinces and territories observe Central Time in the areas noted, while their other
areas observe Eastern Time:

Nunavut (territory): western areas (most of Kivalliq Region and part of Qikiqtaaluk Region)
Ontario (province): a portion of the northwest bordering southeastern Manitoba, in and around Kenora.

Also, most of the province of Saskatchewan is on Central Standard Time year-round, never adjusting for
Daylight Saving Time. Major exceptions include Lloydminster, a city situated on the boundary between Alberta
and Saskatchewan. The city charter stipulates that it shall observe Mountain Time and DST, putting the
community on the same time as all of Alberta, including the major cities of Calgary and Edmonton. As a result,
during the summer, clocks in the entire province match those in Alberta, but during the winter, clocks in most
of the province match those in Manitoba.

United States
Eight states are contained entirely in the Central Time Zone:

Alabama
Arkansas
Illinois
Iowa
Louisiana
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Oklahoma
Wisconsin

Seven states are split between the Central Time Zone and the Mountain Time Zone:

Kansas - all, except for Sherman, Wallace, Greeley, and Hamilton counties
Nebraska - eastern two thirds
New Mexico - Nara Visa
North Dakota - all, except for southwest regions
Oklahoma - all, except for Kenton
South Dakota - eastern half
Texas - all, except for El Paso and Hudspeth counties

Six states are split between the Central Time Zone and the Eastern Time Zone:

Alabama - all, except for the Columbus Metropolitan Area

Florida - Florida Panhandle along Alabama border
Indiana - northwest and southwest regions
Kentucky - western half
Michigan - Gogebic, Iron, Dickinson, and Menominee counties
Tennessee - Western Tennessee and Middle Tennessee

Mexico

Most of Mexicoroughly the eastern three-fourthslies in the Central Time Zone, except for six northwestern
states (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, *most of Nayarit, Sinaloa, and Sonora) and one
southeastern state (Quintana Roo).

The federal entities of Mexico that observe Central Time:

Aguascalientes Jalisco Nayarit - *only the Quertaro

Campeche Mexico City municipality of San Luis Potos
Coahuila Michoacn Baha de Banderas, State of Mexico
Colima Morelos rest of the state Tabasco
Chiapas uses Mountain Tamaulipas
Durango Time Tlaxcala
Guanajuato Nuevo Len Veracruz
Guerrero Oaxaca Yucatn
Hidalgo Puebla Zacatecas

Central America and Caribbean Islands

Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua all use Central Standard Time year-
round.

Eastern Pacific islands and other ar eas

The Galpagos Islands in Ecuador uses Central Standard Time all year-round; the remainder of Ecuador uses
Eastern Standard Time. Both Easter Island and Salas y Gmez Island in Chile uses Central Standard Time
during the Southern Hemisphere winter and Central Daylight Time during the Southern Hemisphere summer;
the remainder of Chile uses Atlantic Standard Time and Atlantic Daylight Time.

Central Daylight Time

Daylight saving time (DST) is in effect in much of the Central time zone between mid-March and early
November. The modified time is called Central Daylight Time (CDT) and is UTC5. In Canada,
Saskatchewan does not observe a time change. One reason that Saskatchewan does not take part in a time
change is that, geographically, the entire province is closer to the Mountain Time Zone's meridian. The
province elected to move onto "permanent" daylight saving by being part of the Central Time Zone. The only
exception is the region immediately surrounding the Saskatchewan side of the biprovincial city of
Lloydminster, which has chosen to use Mountain Time with DST, synchronizing its clocks with those of
Alberta.

In those areas of the Canadian and American time zones that observe DST, beginning in 2007, the local time
changes at 02:00 local standard time to 03:00 local daylight time on the second Sunday in March and returns at
02:00 local daylight time to 01:00 local standard time on the first Sunday in November. Mexico decided not to
go along with this change and observes their horario de verano from the first Sunday in April to the last
Sunday in October. In December 2009, the Mexican Congress allowed ten border cities, eight of which are in
states that observe Central Time, to adopt the U.S. daylight time schedule effective in 2010.

Alphabetical list of major Central Time Zone metropolitan areas

Acapulco, Guerrero Houston, Texas Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes Huntsville, Alabama Omaha, Nebraska
Amarillo, Texas Iowa City, Iowa Panama City, Florida
Antigua, Guatemala Iron Mountain, Michigan Pensacola, Florida
Arlington, Texas Jackson, Mississippi Peoria, Illinois
Austin, Texas Jackson, Tennessee Puebla, Puebla
Baton Rouge, Louisiana Janesville, Wisconsin Quad Cities, Iowa/Illinois
Beaumont/Port Arthur, Texas Joplin, Missouri Racine, Wisconsin
Birmingham, Alabama Kansas City, Missouri- Red Lake, Ontario
Bismarck, North Dakota Kansas Regina, Saskatchewan
Bloomington, Illinois Kenosha, Wisconsin Rockford, Illinois
Bowling Green, Kentucky Lafayette, Louisiana Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Cedar Rapids, Iowa Lawton, Oklahoma St. Louis, Missouri
Champaign, Illinois Len, Guanajuato San Antonio, Texas
Chicago, Illinois Lincoln, Nebraska San Jos, Costa Rica
Clarksville, Tennessee Little Rock, Arkansas San Luis Potos, San Luis
Comarca Lagunera (Torren, Gmez Lubbock, Texas Potos
Palacio, Lerdo) Madison, Wisconsin San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Columbia, Missouri Managua, Nicaragua San Salvador, El Salvador
Cookeville, Tennessee Memphis, Tennessee Santiago de Quertaro,
Cuernavaca, Morelos Mrida, Yucatn Quertaro
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas Mexico City Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Des Moines, Iowa Midland/Odessa, Texas ShreveportBossier City,
Enid, Oklahoma Milwaukee, Wisconsin Louisiana
Evansville, Indiana Minneapolis-St. Paul, Springfield, Missouri
Fargo, North Dakota Minnesota Tampico, Tamaulipas
Fort Walton Beach, Florida Minot, North Dakota Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Gary, Indiana Mobile, Alabama Thompson, Manitoba
Grand Forks, North Dakota Monterrey, Nuevo Len Toluca, Estado de Mxico
 Grand Rapids, Manitoba Montgomery, Alabama Topeka, Kansas
Green Bay, Wisconsin Nashville, Tennessee Tulsa, Oklahoma
Guadalajara, Jalisco New Orleans, Louisiana Waukegan, Illinois
Guatemala City, Guatemala Normal, Illinois Wheaton, Illinois
Hammond, Indiana Wichita, Kansas
Wichita Falls, Texas
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Zacatecas, Zacatecas

See also
Effects of time zones on North American broadcasting

References
External links
World time zone map
History of U.S. time zones and UTC conversion
The official U.S. time for the Central Time Zone (dead link)
Cities in CST
Official times across Canada

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