Linares is a small city in the state of Nuevo León, Mexico.

It was founded on 2 April 1712 by Sebastián Villegas Cumplido and named in honour of the serving Viceroy of New Spain, Fernando de Alencastre Norona y Silva, Duke of Linares.

Linares has a small industrial park and is well-connected to both Monterrey and the Gulf of Mexico via highway.

Linares and its environs are the setting for Sofía Segovia's 2015 novel El murmullo de las abejas (The Murmur of Bees).

The town is also where the legendary norteño band Los Cadetes De Linares originated from in the 1970s.