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What is the current Time in Puerto Vallarta?

If you're visiting Mexico for the first time. You might be asking yourself: What is the current time in Puerto Vallarta Mexico? What is the Puerto Vallarta time zone?

The current time in Puerto Vallarta is:

Puerto Vallarta is located in the CST time zone (S zone in this PDF map).

• Puerto Vallarta follows Central Time Zone, that includes the state of Jalisco, Chicago and Dallas.
• The municipality of Bahia de Banderas, Nayarit, switched to the Central Time Zone on April, 2010, to help tourists and avoid complications.
• Bahia de Banderas includes the following tourist towns:
  - Nuevo Vallarta
  - Mezcales
  - Bucerias
  - La Cruz de Huanacaxtle
  - Punta Mita
  - Sayulita
  - San Pancho (San Francisco) and
  - Lo de Marcos.

• The rest of Nayarit remains on Mountain Standard Time.

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