Current time in Mar del Plata, Argentina right now

It is 5:02 am in Mar del Plata, Argentina 🇦🇷 right now, on Monday, September 28, 2026. The city keeps America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires, which is UTC-3 at UTC-3, so Mar del Plata is 3 hours behind of UTC, where it is 8:02 am. The sun rose in Mar del Plata at 6:30 am and sets at 6:52 pm, which is 12 hours 22 minutes of daylight.

What time is it in Mar del Plata right now?

The time in Mar del Plata, Argentina is 5:02 am, 05:02 on a 24 hour clock, on Monday September 28, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.

Mar del Plata sits at 38.00 degrees south and 57.56 degrees west, at a middle latitude and 4,225 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 45.0 degrees west, and the city itself is 12.6 degrees west of that line. Those 12.6 degrees are worth 50 minutes 13 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:41 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.

Mar del Plata time zone and UTC offset

The IANA zone for Mar del Plata, Argentina is America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires. Right now it is running at UTC-3 and the abbreviation in force is UTC-3. Mar del Plata does not change its clocks at any point in the year. The offset stays at UTC-3 in January and in July alike, so no conversion involving Mar del Plata ever needs a seasonal footnote.

Daylight hours in Mar del Plata today

The sun rose in Mar del Plata at 6:30 am and sets at 6:52 pm, which is 12 hours 22 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Mar del Plata, is at 12:41 pm, which is 41 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -2.20 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 54.2 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the north.

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 Mar del Plata, which works from the same coordinates.

Where Mar del Plata 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 Mar del Plata 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 Mar del Plata.

Best time to call Mar del Plata

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 Argentina

We cover 50 cities in Argentina. These are the ones nearest to Mar del Plata, with the time on their clocks right now.

Cities on America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires time

24 of our cities keep America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires, so every one of them reads 5:02 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Mar del Plata. Nearest first:

Moon phase over Mar del Plata tonight

The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 17.2 days into its cycle and about 93% lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 at 1:11 am Buenos Aires time, and the next new moon on October 10, 2026 at 12:49 pm. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Mar del Plata clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.

When the clocks change in Mar del Plata

There is no clock change scheduled in America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires within the next 400 days, so Mar del Plata stays at UTC-3 for the whole of that stretch.

That makes Mar del Plata an easy city to schedule against: a meeting fixed at a given hour here holds its relationship to UTC all year, and only the other end of the call can move.

How far Mar del Plata is from other cities

Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Mar del Plata is Tandil, Argentina at 158 km, and the furthest is Weihai, China at 19,953 km, which is 100% of the way to being exactly opposite.

The antipode of Mar del Plata

Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Mar del Plata, Argentina and you come out at 38.00 degrees north, 122.44 degrees east. That point is near Weihai, China. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Weihai, China, 62 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 4:02 pm on Monday.

The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 38.00 degrees south becomes 38.00 degrees north, and 57.56 degrees west becomes 122.44 degrees east. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Mar del Plata is one of the exceptions, with dry land on the far side. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC+9, roughly twelve hours from Mar del Plata, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.

Sunrise and sunset in Mar del Plata

Today the sun rises in Mar del Plata at 6:30 am and sets at 6:52 pm, giving 12 hours 22 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 Mar del Plata.

Sun and moon in Mar del Plata today

The sun is up in Mar del Plata for 12 hours 22 minutes today, from 6:30 am to 6:52 pm. The moon sets in Mar del Plata at 7:09 am and comes up again at 9:25 pm. The next phase is the last quarter on October 3, 2026. It is 95% lit at the moment, a waning gibbous, thinning by about 4.5 percentage points a day.

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 Mar del Plata

Seven days from September 28, 2026, computed for Mar del Plata, Argentina at 38.00 degrees south, 57.56 degrees west, on the clock of America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires. 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 Mar del Plata, Argentina, 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 Mar del Plata

From Mar del Plata, Argentina the qibla is 76.9 degrees on a true compass, which is east-northeast, or 13.1 degrees north of due east. The Kaaba is 12,077 km away, 7,504 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Mar del Plata, Argentina 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 Mar del Plata, Argentina 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.

Mar del Plata time now: common questions

What time is it in Mar del Plata, Argentina right now?

5:02 am on Monday September 28, 2026. Mar del Plata runs on UTC-3, UTC-3.

What time zone is Mar del Plata in?

America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires, currently UTC-3 at UTC-3. 24 of the cities on this site keep that zone.

What is the UTC offset for Mar del Plata?

UTC-3 at this instant. It is UTC-3 all year round, with no seasonal change.

Does Mar del Plata observe daylight saving time?

No. Mar del Plata stays on UTC-3 for the whole year.

How many hours ahead or behind is Mar del Plata of New York?

Mar del Plata is 1 hour ahead of New York, where it is 4:02 am right now.

What time does the sun set in Mar del Plata today?

6:52 pm, after a sunrise at 6:30 am and 12 hours 22 minutes of daylight.

What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Mar del Plata?

38.00 degrees north, 122.44 degrees east, near Weihai, China.

When is the best time to call Mar del Plata from London?

Between 9:00 am and 2:00 pm in Mar del Plata, which is 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm in London.

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