Ciudad de México
Wednesday · September · 30 · 2026
“I have been one acquainted with the night.”
— Robert Frost
Sun & daylight
The sun rises at 06:28 and sets at 18:27 in Mexico City today, giving 11h 59m of daylight. Solar noon is at 12:27.
06:28
Sunrise
12:27
Noon
18:27
Sunset
Midnight
00:27
Sunrise
06:28
Solar noon
12:27
Sunset
18:27
Solar midnight
00:27
Daylight
11h 59m
Daylight runs about 13h 18m around the June solstice and 10h 57m around the December solstice.
Daylight saving time
Mexico City does not observe daylight saving time. Clocks stay on UTC−6 all year, so the local time never shifts with the seasons.
Public holidays
Mexico has 1 public holiday in September 2026.
Architecture
Mexico City is built on a drained lake bed, so weight, settlement and earthquakes shape what is possible before style does. Colour here is used at the scale of a wall rather than as trim.
Completed 2022
Pelli Clarke & Partners
A residential tower in Coyoacán, at the centre of a mixed-use district built on a former hospital site. Pelli Clarke & Partners tapered the shaft and folded the curtain wall into shallow facets, so the silver skin catches light differently on each face. The plan narrows as it rises, which reduces what the foundations have to carry on the lake bed. It stands well outside the business corridor, which is why it is visible from so much of the city.
Completed 2013
David Chipperfield
A private contemporary art museum in Polanco. David Chipperfield raised the galleries on fourteen concrete columns and left the ground open as a shaded plaza, so the building stands above the street rather than on it. Travertine covers the whole volume, and a sawtooth roof turns north for even daylight in the top gallery. It is a very small museum built with the discipline usually kept for a large one.
Completed 2006
Alberto Kalach
The national library beside the Buenavista station. Alberto Kalach hung the stacks from a steel frame so the shelves float inside one long hall with the floor left open beneath them. The reading levels hang in the same structure and can be seen through from end to end. A botanical garden wraps the building, which is what the library uses instead of a facade.
Completed 1976
Luis Barragán
A house built around a jacaranda tree on a narrow lot in San Miguel Chapultepec. Luis Barragán ran a yellow corridor the depth of the plan, so daylight turns the passage a single colour before it reaches the courtyard. A dining room sits beside an indoor pool with a red column standing in the water and blue and pink walls behind it. It was his last completed building and the smallest place where the colour arguments are fully visible.
Completed 1948
Luis Barragán
The architect's own house and studio in Tacubaya, behind a plain street facade. Luis Barragán kept the outside almost blank and put the whole composition inside, where stairs, screens and a roof terrace are arranged around planes of colour. A cantilevered timber stair without a rail climbs one wall of the library. The building is where his method was worked out, and the rest of his work reads as an extension of it.