What time is it in Spain right now? 🇪🇸
It is 1:19 pm in Madrid right now, Friday, September 25, 2026. Spain runs on CEST at UTC+2, and on 2 further zones besides. Every reading on this page is computed from the IANA time zone database at the moment you loaded it, and the clocks above and below tick on from there.
Time in Spain now
Spain spans 2 different clock readings across 3 IANA zones, 1 hour apart from end to end. When it is 12:19 pm in Canary it is already 1:19 pm in Madrid, so "the time in Spain" is a question that needs a region attached to it.
The offset from UTC in Madrid is UTC+2, which is 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Nine in the morning in Madrid is 7:00 am UTC.
Spain time zones in full
Each row is a zone identifier from the IANA database, its reading at this instant, its offset from UTC and whether it is currently on standard or summer time. They do not all agree: the spread across Spain is 1 hour.
| Time zone | Time now | UTC offset | Abbreviation | Daylight saving |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Africa/Ceuta | 1:19 pm | UTC+2 | CEST | on summer time now |
Atlantic/Canary | 12:19 pm | UTC+1 | WEST | on summer time now |
Europe/Madrid | 1:19 pm | UTC+2 | CEST | on summer time now |
Does Spain have daylight saving time?
Spain does observe daylight saving, in every zone it has. The next change is on October 25, 2026, when the clocks go back and UTC+2 becomes UTC+1. Until then the offset here is UTC+2.
Because the clocks move, the gap between Spain and anywhere that does not move its own is not a constant. It shifts by an hour twice a year, and a difference memorised in one season is wrong in the other. That is the single most common source of a missed call into Spain.
Where Spain is on the map
The marker is on Madrid, the point every sun reading and every call window on this page is worked out from.
An interactive map of Madrid. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Madrid on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Madrid and major cities
Worked out at this instant rather than from a stored table, so daylight saving on either side is already in it.
| City | Time there now | Difference from Madrid |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, CA | 4:19 am | 9 hours behind Madrid |
| Chicago, IL | 6:19 am | 7 hours behind Madrid |
| New York, NY | 7:19 am | 6 hours behind Madrid |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 8:19 am | 5 hours behind Madrid |
| London, United Kingdom | 12:19 pm | 1 hour behind Madrid |
| Paris, France | 1:19 pm | the same time |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 1:19 pm | the same time |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 3:19 pm | 2 hours ahead of Madrid |
| Delhi, India | 4:49 pm | 3 hours 30 minutes ahead of Madrid |
| Singapore, Singapore | 7:19 pm | 6 hours ahead of Madrid |
| Tokyo, Japan | 8:19 pm | 7 hours ahead of Madrid |
| Sydney, Australia | 9:19 pm | 8 hours ahead of Madrid |
Best time to call Spain
A nine to five working day in Madrid against a nine to five day elsewhere. The overlap column is the stretch when both desks are open, given on each side's own clock.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Madrid | Window there |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York the US East Coast | 6 hours ahead | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | 9:00 am to 11:00 am |
| Los Angeles the US West Coast | 9 hours ahead | no shared working hours | try either side of the working day |
| London the United Kingdom | 1 hour ahead | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm |
| Mumbai India | 3 hours 30 minutes behind | 9:00 am to 1:30 pm | 12:30 pm to 5:00 pm |
Daylight hours in Madrid today
In Madrid the sun rose at 8:05 am today and sets at 8:07 pm, giving 12 hours 2 minutes of daylight. The capital is losing 2 minutes 39 seconds of daylight a day at the moment, and the sun stands highest at 2:07 pm.
Solar noon in Madrid is 2:07 pm, which is 127 minutes after clock noon. That gap is the capital sitting at 3.70 degrees west while its clock is set to Europe/Madrid, plus the equation of time, which today runs 8.3 minutes ahead of mean time, plus an hour of daylight saving for part of the year.
Moon phase over Madrid tonight
The moon is full moon tonight, 14.3 days into the current lunation, with roughly 100 percent of the disc lit. The next full moon falls on September 26, 2026 as Spain reads the date, at 6:48 pm local. The moon phase page has the full cycle.
Current time in Spain cities
The 93 cities this site covers inside Spain, alphabetically, each with its own ticking clock and its own sunrise page.
Every IANA time zone in Spain
These are the identifiers a computer uses. A program that stores Europe/Madrid rather than UTC+2 keeps working through every future rule change, which is the whole reason the database is keyed this way.
Convert Spain time to another zone
The converter pages below take CEST against the zones people most often measure it from. Each one carries a full conversion table rather than a single answer.
Information about Spain
Spain sits in Europe, carries the ISO country code ES and a population of about 48,370,000. Its capital Madrid is at 40.42 degrees north, 3.70 degrees west, which is the coordinate every sunrise and solar noon on this page is computed from.
Upcoming dates in Spain
Read on Spain's own clock, so the day counts below start from September 25 and not from a UTC date. The list is the internationally observed calendar plus the dates common across Europe, along with this country's own clock changes and the next solstices and equinoxes. National days set by a country's own statute are not included, because this site carries no statute table and a guessed one would be worse than an honest gap.
| Date | Day | What falls on it | Days away |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 25, 2026 | Sunday | Clocks go back in Canary UTC+1 becomes UTC+0 | 30 |
| October 25, 2026 | Sunday | Clocks go back in Ceuta UTC+2 becomes UTC+1 | 30 |
| October 25, 2026 | Sunday | Clocks go back in Madrid UTC+2 becomes UTC+1 | 30 |
| December 21, 2026 | Monday | December solstice, 9:50 pm local astronomical | 87 |
| December 25, 2026 | Friday | Christmas Day observed widely | 91 |
| December 26, 2026 | Saturday | Boxing Day or St Stephen’s Day observed widely | 92 |
| December 31, 2026 | Thursday | New Year's Eve observance | 97 |
| January 1, 2027 | Friday | New Year's Day observed almost everywhere | 98 |
| March 20, 2027 | Saturday | March equinox, 9:24 pm local astronomical | 176 |
| March 26, 2027 | Friday | Good Friday movable, set by the Easter cycle | 182 |
Sun and moon in Madrid today
The sun is up in Madrid for 12 hours 2 minutes today, from 8:05 am to 8:07 pm. The moon sets in Madrid at 6:37 am and comes up again at 7:27 pm. The next phase is the full moon on September 26, 2026. It is 98% lit at the moment, a full moon, filling out by about 2.9 percentage points a day.
| Sun | Time in Madrid |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 6:34 am |
| Nautical dawn | 7:06 am |
| Civil dawn | 7:38 am |
| Sunrise | 8:05 am |
| Solar noon | 2:07 pm |
| Sunset | 8:07 pm |
| Civil dusk | 8:34 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 9:06 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 9:38 pm |
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.
| Light band | Time in Madrid | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 7:38 am to 7:49 am | 0h 11m |
| Morning golden hour | 7:49 am to 8:41 am | 0h 53m |
| Evening golden hour | 7:31 pm to 8:24 pm | 0h 53m |
| Evening blue hour | 8:24 pm to 8:34 pm | 0h 11m |
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.
| Moon | Reading in Madrid |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 7:27 pm |
| Moonset | 6:37 am |
| Phase | full moon, waxing |
| Illumination | 98% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 14.3 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 384,800 km |
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.
Meeting planner: Spain and four other places
Every hour of Friday, September 25, 2026 in Spain, read across 4 other places. Columns are Spain local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
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| Spain local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SpainCEST UTC+2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPDT UTC-7 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| LondonBST UTC+1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 3:30 | 4:30 | 5:30 | 6:30 | 7:30 | 8:30 | 9:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 | 21:30 | 22:30 | 23:30 | 0:30+1 | 1:30+1 | 2:30+1 |
No hour on Friday, September 25, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Los Angeles and Delhi are 12 hours 30 minutes apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 10:00 am in Spain it is working hours in Spain, London and Delhi, but outside them in Los Angeles and New York. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Spain spans 3 time zones, so the clock shown is Madrid.
Prayer times in Madrid
Seven days from September 25, 2026, computed for Madrid 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.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday September 25 | 6:34 am | 8:05 am | 2:07 pm | 5:30 pm | 8:07 pm | 9:33 pm |
| Saturday September 26 | 6:35 am | 8:06 am | 2:06 pm | 5:29 pm | 8:05 pm | 9:31 pm |
| Sunday September 27 | 6:36 am | 8:07 am | 2:06 pm | 5:27 pm | 8:04 pm | 9:29 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 6:37 am | 8:08 am | 2:05 pm | 5:26 pm | 8:02 pm | 9:27 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 6:38 am | 8:09 am | 2:05 pm | 5:25 pm | 8:00 pm | 9:26 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 6:39 am | 8:10 am | 2:05 pm | 5:24 pm | 7:59 pm | 9:24 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 6:40 am | 8:11 am | 2:04 pm | 5:23 pm | 7:57 pm | 9:22 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Madrid, 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 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 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 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.
Questions about the time in Spain
- What time is it in Spain right now?
- It is 1:19 pm in Madrid as this page was served, Friday, September 25, 2026. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.
- What time zone is Spain in?
- Spain uses 3 zones, from UTC+1 to UTC+2. The capital Madrid is on Europe/Madrid at UTC+2.
- What is the UTC offset in Spain?
- UTC+2 in Madrid at this instant, and between UTC+1 and UTC+2 across the whole country.
- Does Spain observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. The next change is October 25, 2026.
- What time does the sun set in Madrid today?
- 8:07 pm, after a sunrise at 8:05 am and 12 hours 2 minutes of daylight.
- When is the best time to call Spain from the United States?
- Between 9:00 am and 11:00 am New York time, which is 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm in Madrid.
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