UTC−06:00 As standard time (Northern Hemisphere winter)
Principal cities: Winnipeg , Chicago , Dallas , Houston , St. Louis , Minneapolis , Austin , Memphis , Kansas City , San Antonio , Nashville , New Orleans , Milwaukee , Oklahoma City , Reynosa
North America
CST is standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, centralized by the 90th meridian; used in North America in some parts of Canada, Mexico and the United States.[ 1]
Canada (Central Time Zone )
Mexico (near US border with Texas)
United States (Central Time Zone)
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
The counties of Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, and Washington, and northern Gulf County (panhandle)[ 4]
Illinois
Indiana [ 5]
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Michigan [ 7]
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
North Dakota
Entire state except southwest
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
All except northwestern Culberson, El Paso and Hudspeth counties
Wisconsin
As standard time (year-round)
Principal cities: Regina , Saskatoon , Puebla , Orizaba , Mexico City , Guadalajara , Monterrey , Guatemala City , Tegucigalpa , Managua , Belmopan , Belize City , San José , San Salvador , San Pedro Sula , Liberia .
Central America
Belize
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Nicaragua
Called Central America Time Zone
North America
Canada (Central Time Zone )
Mexico (Zona Centro)
All except Baja California , Baja California Sur , most of Nayarit , Quintana Roo , Sinaloa , Sonora and the northern municipalities of Chihuahua , Coahuila , Nuevo León and Tamaulipas .[ 3]
A small enclave of the UTC−6 time zone is followed in the municipality of Bahía de Banderas , Nayarit, due to its strong economic ties with the neighboring municipality of Puerto Vallarta , Jalisco . In most UNIX-like operating systems this area is represented as America/Bahia_Banderas .
As standard time (Southern Hemisphere winter)
Principal settlement: Hanga Roa
External links
Media related to UTC−06:00 at Wikimedia Commons