Current time in Madrid, Spain right now

It is 1:56 am in Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸 right now, on Sunday, September 27, 2026. The city keeps Europe/Madrid, which is CEST at UTC+2, so Madrid is 2 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 11:56 pm. The sun rose in Madrid at 8:07 am and sets at 8:04 pm, which is 11 hours 57 minutes of daylight.

What time is it in Madrid right now?

The time in Madrid, Spain is 1:56 am, 01:56 on a 24 hour clock, on Sunday September 27, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Europe/Madrid rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.

Madrid sits at 40.42 degrees north and 3.70 degrees west, at a middle latitude and 4,494 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 30.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 33.7 degrees west of that line. Those 33.7 degrees are worth 134 minutes 49 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 2:06 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.

Madrid time zone and UTC offset

The IANA zone for Madrid, Spain is Europe/Madrid. Right now it is running at UTC+2 and the abbreviation in force is CEST. Madrid is on summer time at the moment, which is why the offset reads UTC+2 rather than the UTC+1 it keeps in winter.

Daylight hours in Madrid today

The sun rose in Madrid at 8:07 am and sets at 8:04 pm, which is 11 hours 57 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Madrid, is at 2:06 pm, which is 126 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.75 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 47.8 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.

The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Madrid, which works from the same coordinates.

Where Madrid is on the map

The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.

Time difference between Madrid and major cities

Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Madrid.

Best time to call Madrid

Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.

Other cities in Spain

We cover 93 cities in Spain. These are the ones nearest to Madrid, with the time on their clocks right now.

Cities on Europe/Madrid time

89 of our cities keep Europe/Madrid, so every one of them reads 1:56 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Madrid. Nearest first:

Moon phase over Madrid tonight

The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 15.9 days into its cycle and about 99% lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 at 5:11 am Madrid time, and the next new moon on October 10, 2026 at 5:49 pm. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Madrid clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.

When the clocks change in Madrid

The next change is on Sunday, October 25, 2026, 28 days from now, when the clocks in Madrid go back 1 hour at 2:59 am and the offset moves from UTC+2 to UTC+1.

Two things follow from that. Any standing call with Madrid shifts by an hour on that date unless the other side moves the same weekend, and every offset printed on this page is the offset for today rather than a fixed property of the city.

How far Madrid is from other cities

Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Madrid is Madrid Centro, Spain at 0 km, and the furthest is Lower Hutt, New Zealand at 19,869 km, which is 99% of the way to being exactly opposite.

The antipode of Madrid

Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Madrid, Spain and you come out at 40.42 degrees south, 176.30 degrees east. That point is near Lower Hutt, New Zealand. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Lower Hutt, New Zealand, 146 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 12:56 pm on Sunday.

The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 40.42 degrees north becomes 40.42 degrees south, and 3.70 degrees west becomes 176.30 degrees east. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Madrid is one of the exceptions, with dry land on the far side. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-10, roughly twelve hours from Madrid, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.

Sunrise and sunset in Madrid

Today the sun rises in Madrid at 8:07 am and sets at 8:04 pm, giving 11 hours 57 minutes of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Madrid.

Sun and moon in Madrid today

The sun is up in Madrid for 11 hours 57 minutes today, from 8:07 am to 8:04 pm. The moon sets in Madrid at 8:54 am and comes up again at 8:13 pm. The next phase is the last quarter on October 3, 2026. The moon is full, or as near to it as makes no difference, and the whole of the face turned towards us is lit.

Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.

Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.

Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.

Prayer times in Madrid

Seven days from September 27, 2026, computed for Madrid, Spain at 40.42 degrees north, 3.70 degrees west, on the clock of Europe/Madrid. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.

Dhuhr is solar noon at Madrid, Spain, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.

Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.

Qibla direction from Madrid

From Madrid, Spain the qibla is 104.0 degrees on a true compass, which is east-southeast, or 14.0 degrees south of due east. The Kaaba is 4,598 km away, 2,857 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Madrid, Spain to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.

The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Madrid, Spain before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.

Madrid time now: common questions

What time is it in Madrid, Spain right now?

1:56 am on Sunday September 27, 2026. Madrid runs on CEST, UTC+2.

What time zone is Madrid in?

Europe/Madrid, currently CEST at UTC+2. 89 of the cities on this site keep that zone.

What is the UTC offset for Madrid?

UTC+2 at this instant. It alternates between UTC+1 and UTC+2 across the year.

Does Madrid observe daylight saving time?

Yes. The next change is October 25, 2026, when the clocks go back.

How many hours ahead or behind is Madrid of New York?

Madrid is 6 hours ahead of New York, where it is 7:56 pm right now.

What time does the sun set in Madrid today?

8:04 pm, after a sunrise at 8:07 am and 11 hours 57 minutes of daylight.

What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Madrid?

40.42 degrees south, 176.30 degrees east, near Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

When is the best time to call Madrid from London?

Between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm in Madrid, which is 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in London.

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