Current time in Matagalpa, Nicaragua right now

It is 11:48 am in Matagalpa, Nicaragua 🇳🇮 right now, on Sunday, September 27, 2026. The city keeps America/Managua, which is CST at UTC-6, so Matagalpa is 6 hours behind of UTC, where it is 5:48 pm. The sun rose in Matagalpa at 5:33 am and sets at 5:36 pm, which is 12 hours 3 minutes of daylight.

What time is it in Matagalpa right now?

The time in Matagalpa, Nicaragua is 11:48 am, 11:48 on a 24 hour clock, on Sunday September 27, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the America/Managua rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.

Matagalpa sits at 12.93 degrees north and 85.92 degrees west, inside the tropics, north of the equator and 1,438 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 90.0 degrees west, and the city itself is 4.1 degrees east of that line. Those 4.1 degrees are worth 16 minutes 19 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 11:35 am rather than on the stroke of twelve.

Matagalpa time zone and UTC offset

The IANA zone for Matagalpa, Nicaragua is America/Managua. Right now it is running at UTC-6 and the abbreviation in force is CST. Matagalpa does not change its clocks at any point in the year. The offset stays at UTC-6 in January and in July alike, so no conversion involving Matagalpa ever needs a seasonal footnote.

Daylight hours in Matagalpa today

The sun rose in Matagalpa at 5:33 am and sets at 5:36 pm, which is 12 hours 3 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Matagalpa, is at 11:35 am, which is 25 minutes before clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.84 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 75.2 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 Matagalpa, which works from the same coordinates.

Where Matagalpa 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 Matagalpa 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 Matagalpa.

Best time to call Matagalpa

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 Nicaragua

We cover 5 cities in Nicaragua. These are the ones nearest to Matagalpa, with the time on their clocks right now.

Cities on America/Managua time

5 of our cities keep America/Managua, so every one of them reads 11:48 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Matagalpa. Nearest first:

Moon phase over Matagalpa tonight

The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 16.6 days into its cycle and about 96% lit. The next full moon falls on October 25, 2026 at 10:11 pm Managua time, and the next new moon on October 10, 2026 at 9:49 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Matagalpa clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.

When the clocks change in Matagalpa

There is no clock change scheduled in America/Managua within the next 400 days, so Matagalpa stays at UTC-6 for the whole of that stretch.

That makes Matagalpa 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 Matagalpa is from other cities

Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Matagalpa is Managua, Nicaragua at 95 km, and the furthest is Bengkulu, Indonesia at 18,659 km, which is 93% of the way to being exactly opposite.

The antipode of Matagalpa

Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Matagalpa, Nicaragua and you come out at 12.93 degrees south, 94.08 degrees east. That point is in the Indian Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Bengkulu, Indonesia, 1,356 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 12:48 am on Monday.

The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 12.93 degrees north becomes 12.93 degrees south, and 85.92 degrees west becomes 94.08 degrees east. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Matagalpa is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC+6, roughly twelve hours from Matagalpa, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.

Sunrise and sunset in Matagalpa

Today the sun rises in Matagalpa at 5:33 am and sets at 5:36 pm, giving 12 hours 3 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 Matagalpa.

Sun and moon in Matagalpa today

The sun is up in Matagalpa for 12 hours 3 minutes today, from 5:33 am to 5:36 pm. The moon sets in Matagalpa at 6:15 am and comes up again at 6:19 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 Matagalpa

Seven days from September 27, 2026, computed for Matagalpa, Nicaragua at 12.93 degrees north, 85.92 degrees west, on the clock of America/Managua. 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 Matagalpa, Nicaragua, 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 Matagalpa

From Matagalpa, Nicaragua the qibla is 57.7 degrees on a true compass, which is east-northeast, or 32.3 degrees north of due east. The Kaaba is 12,969 km away, 8,059 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Matagalpa, Nicaragua 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 Matagalpa, Nicaragua 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.

Matagalpa time now: common questions

What time is it in Matagalpa, Nicaragua right now?

11:48 am on Sunday September 27, 2026. Matagalpa runs on CST, UTC-6.

What time zone is Matagalpa in?

America/Managua, currently CST at UTC-6. 5 of the cities on this site keep that zone.

What is the UTC offset for Matagalpa?

UTC-6 at this instant. It is UTC-6 all year round, with no seasonal change.

Does Matagalpa observe daylight saving time?

No. Matagalpa stays on UTC-6 for the whole year.

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

Matagalpa is 2 hours behind of New York, where it is 1:48 pm right now.

What time does the sun set in Matagalpa today?

5:36 pm, after a sunrise at 5:33 am and 12 hours 3 minutes of daylight.

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

12.93 degrees south, 94.08 degrees east, in the Indian Ocean.

When is the best time to call Matagalpa from London?

Between 9:00 am and 11:00 am in Matagalpa, which is 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm in London.

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