It is 9:46 am in Atlantic/Cape_Verde
Atlantic/Cape_Verde is the IANA identifier for the time zone of Cape Verde in Cape Verde. It is running at UTC-1 right now, with no letter abbreviation in common use, and the local date is Friday, September 25, 2026. The zone never moves its clocks.
What time is it in Atlantic/Cape_Verde right now
9:46 am on Friday, September 25, 2026, as this page was served, which in 24 hour form is 09:46. The clock above ticks on from there in your own browser. The offset is a whole hour behind UTC, so a UTC timestamp converts here by changing the hour and leaving the minutes exactly as they are.
2 other zones read UTC-1 at this instant: America/Nuuk, America/Scoresbysund. They agree on the clock now and need not agree in six months, because each one carries its own daylight saving rule.
The UTC offset of Atlantic/Cape_Verde
An offset of UTC-1 names the meridian 15.0 degrees west. Praia, Cape Verde actually sits at 23.51 degrees west, which is 8.5 degrees west of it, so the sun there runs about 34 minutes behind the clock before daylight saving is even considered. Zone boundaries are drawn by borders and by convenience, not by longitude, and this is the size of the gap that produces.
Because this zone never moves its clocks, UTC-1 is the answer on every day of the year. That makes it an easy zone to schedule against, with the caveat that the other end of the call may still be moving its own clocks, so the gap between the two changes even though nothing changed here.
Daylight saving in Atlantic/Cape_Verde
Atlantic/Cape_Verde does not observe daylight saving. It sits at UTC-1 in January and reads UTC-1 again in July, so a gap worked out against it today is still right in six months. It has not moved its clocks in any year since 1970 that this page can see.
The database holds no clock change for Atlantic/Cape_Verde in 2025, 2026 or 2027, so there is no transition table to print. The offset shown at the top of this page is the offset on every date in those three years.
How the offset of Atlantic/Cape_Verde has changed since 1970
Read on 1 January and 1 July of each year, which is the cheapest pair of samples that shows both the winter offset and whether the clocks moved that summer. The zone has passed through 2 distinct eras in that time and has used 2 different offsets: UTC-2, UTC-1. Its current behaviour has held since 1976. A rule change that began and ended between July and the following January is invisible to this sampling, so the table is a shape rather than a complete edit history.
| Years | 1 January | 1 July | Behaviour |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 to 1975 | UTC-2 | UTC-2 | one offset all year |
| 1976 to 2026 | UTC-1 | UTC-1 | one offset all year |
No summer shift appears in any year sampled, so a piece of software that treats Atlantic/Cape_Verde as a fixed offset happens to be right, and is right by luck rather than by design: the same assumption applied to a neighbouring zone breaks twice a year.
Countries and regions that use Atlantic/Cape_Verde
One country uses Atlantic/Cape_Verde: Cape Verde, which keeps this as its only time zone and has a population of about 593,000.
Cities in the Atlantic/Cape_Verde time zone
The one city this site covers inside Atlantic/Cape_Verde, each with a live clock and today's sunrise and sunset worked out from its own coordinate. The clock reading is a property of the identifier, so it is the same anywhere else in the zone; the sunrise is not, because that is set by latitude and longitude.
| City | Where | Time now | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Praia | Cape Verde | 9:46 am | 6:23 am | 6:28 pm | 12h 05m |
The sun against the clock in Atlantic/Cape_Verde
Worked out for Praia, Cape Verde, the city this site covers inside the zone, at 14.93 degrees north, 23.51 degrees west. The sun rises at 6:23 am and sets at 6:28 pm, giving 12 hours 5 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the moment the sun is highest, falls at 12:26 pm, which is 26 minutes after clock noon.
That gap is the whole argument about where zone lines belong, in one number. It is made of three things: Praia, Cape Verde sitting 8.5 degrees west of the UTC-1 meridian, the equation of time, which today runs 8.3 minutes ahead of mean time, and no daylight saving at all, because this zone does not use it. Full sunrise and sunset times for Praia.
Convert Atlantic/Cape_Verde to another time zone
The converter is keyed on the abbreviations people type rather than on identifiers. Atlantic/Cape_Verde is at UTC-1 right now, the same reading as UTC, so these pages answer the same question for it today. They will diverge if the two zones ever adopt different daylight saving rules, which is exactly why the identifier is the thing worth storing.
Questions about Atlantic/Cape_Verde
- What time is it in Atlantic/Cape_Verde right now?
- 9:46 am on Friday, September 25, 2026, as this page was served. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.
- What is the UTC offset of Atlantic/Cape_Verde?
- UTC-1 at this instant, on every day of the year.
- Does Atlantic/Cape_Verde observe daylight saving time?
- No. It stays at UTC-1 all year.
- What is the abbreviation for Atlantic/Cape_Verde?
- There is no English letter abbreviation in common use for this zone, so it is written as its offset, UTC-1. That is what every other clock shows for it too.
- Which countries use Atlantic/Cape_Verde?
- Cape Verde.
- Why store Atlantic/Cape_Verde instead of UTC-1?
- Because the offset is an output and the identifier is the input. This zone has one offset today and no guarantee of keeping it, and 2 other zones share its current reading while carrying different rules. A record storing UTC-1 cannot tell them apart; a record storing
Atlantic/Cape_Verdekeeps working through every future rule change.