Current time in Barcelona, Spain right now
It is 7:37 am in Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸 right now, on Sunday, November 8, 2026. The city keeps Europe/Madrid, which is CET at UTC+1, so Barcelona is 1 hour ahead of UTC, where it is 6:37 am. The sun rose in Barcelona at 7:31 am and sets at 5:38 pm, which is 10 hours 7 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Barcelona right now?
The time in Barcelona, Spain is 7:37 am, 07:37 on a 24 hour clock, on Sunday November 8, 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.
Barcelona sits at 41.39 degrees north and 2.17 degrees east, at a middle latitude and 4,602 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 15.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 12.8 degrees west of that line. Those 12.8 degrees are worth 51 minutes 20 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:35 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Barcelona time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Barcelona, Spain is Europe/Madrid. Right now it is running at UTC+1 and the abbreviation in force is CET. Barcelona is on standard time at the moment, at UTC+1. It moves to UTC+2 for part of the year.
Daylight hours in Barcelona today
The sun rose in Barcelona at 7:31 am and sets at 5:38 pm, which is 10 hours 7 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Barcelona, is at 12:35 pm, which is 35 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -16.65 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 32.0 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Barcelona |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 7:31 am |
| Sunset | 5:38 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:35 pm |
| Day length | 10 hours 7 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 4:58 pm to 5:56 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 6:08 pm |
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 Barcelona, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Barcelona 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.
An interactive map of Barcelona. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Barcelona on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Barcelona 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 Barcelona.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Barcelona |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 10:37 pm | -9 | 9 hours behind of Barcelona |
| Chicago, Illinois | 12:37 am | -7 | 7 hours behind of Barcelona |
| New York, New York | 1:37 am | -6 | 6 hours behind of Barcelona |
| Toronto, Canada | 1:37 am | -6 | 6 hours behind of Barcelona |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 3:37 am | -4 | 4 hours behind of Barcelona |
| London, United Kingdom | 6:37 am | -1 | 1 hour behind of Barcelona |
| Paris, France | 7:37 am | 0 | same time as Barcelona |
| Berlin, Germany | 7:37 am | 0 | same time as Barcelona |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 8:37 am | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Barcelona |
| Moscow, Russia | 9:37 am | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Barcelona |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 10:37 am | +3 | 3 hours ahead of Barcelona |
| Delhi, India | 12:07 pm | +4:30 | 4 hours 30 minutes ahead of Barcelona |
| Singapore, Singapore | 2:37 pm | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Barcelona |
| Hong Kong, China | 2:37 pm | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Barcelona |
| Tokyo, Japan | 3:37 pm | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Barcelona |
| Sydney, Australia | 5:37 pm | +10 | 10 hours ahead of Barcelona |
Best time to call Barcelona
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.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Barcelona | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | -6 | 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 12:00 pm |
| Los Angeles | -9 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| London | -1 | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm |
| Delhi | +4:30 | 9:00 am to 1:30 pm | 1:30 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Sydney | +10 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
Other cities in Spain
We cover 93 cities in Spain. These are the ones nearest to Barcelona, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eixample | Catalonia | 7:37 am | UTC+1 |
| Ciutat Vella | Catalonia | 7:37 am | UTC+1 |
| Gracia | Catalonia | 7:37 am | UTC+1 |
| Sants-Montjuic | Catalonia | 7:37 am | UTC+1 |
| Sarria-Sant Gervasi | Catalonia | 7:37 am | UTC+1 |
| Horta-Guinardo | Catalonia | 7:37 am | UTC+1 |
| Sant Marti | Catalonia | 7:37 am | UTC+1 |
| Sant Andreu | Catalonia | 7:37 am | UTC+1 |
| Nou Barris | Catalonia | 7:37 am | UTC+1 |
| L'Hospitalet de Llobregat | Catalonia | 7:37 am | UTC+1 |
| Santa Coloma de Gramenet | Catalonia | 7:37 am | UTC+1 |
| Badalona | Catalonia | 7:37 am | UTC+1 |
| Sabadell | Catalonia | 7:37 am | UTC+1 |
| Terrassa | Catalonia | 7:37 am | UTC+1 |
| Mataro | Catalonia | 7:37 am | UTC+1 |
| Tarragona | Catalonia | 7:37 am | UTC+1 |
Cities on Europe/Madrid time
89 of our cities keep Europe/Madrid, so every one of them reads 7:37 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Barcelona. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Barcelona |
|---|---|---|
| Eixample, Spain | 7:37 am | 1 km |
| Ciutat Vella, Spain | 7:37 am | 1 km |
| Gracia, Spain | 7:37 am | 2 km |
| Sants-Montjuic, Spain | 7:37 am | 2 km |
| Sarria-Sant Gervasi, Spain | 7:37 am | 3 km |
| Horta-Guinardo, Spain | 7:37 am | 3 km |
| Sant Marti, Spain | 7:37 am | 4 km |
| Sant Andreu, Spain | 7:37 am | 6 km |
| Nou Barris, Spain | 7:37 am | 6 km |
| L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain | 7:37 am | 6 km |
| Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Spain | 7:37 am | 8 km |
| Badalona, Spain | 7:37 am | 10 km |
| Sabadell, Spain | 7:37 am | 18 km |
| Terrassa, Spain | 7:37 am | 24 km |
| Mataro, Spain | 7:37 am | 29 km |
| Tarragona, Spain | 7:37 am | 83 km |
Moon phase over Barcelona tonight
The moon is a waning crescent tonight, 28.6 days into its cycle and about 1% lit. The next full moon falls on November 24, 2026 at 3:53 pm Madrid time, and the next new moon on November 9, 2026 at 8:01 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Barcelona clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Barcelona
The next change is on Sunday, March 28, 2027, 140 days from now, when the clocks in Barcelona go forward 1 hour at 1:59 am and the offset moves from UTC+1 to UTC+2.
Two things follow from that. Any standing call with Barcelona 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 Barcelona is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Barcelona is Eixample, Spain at 1 km, and the furthest is Lower Hutt, New Zealand at 19,409 km, which is 97% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eixample, Spain | 1 | 0 | west | 7:37 am |
| Ciutat Vella, Spain | 1 | 1 | south east | 7:37 am |
| Gracia, Spain | 2 | 1 | north west | 7:37 am |
| Sants-Montjuic, Spain | 2 | 1 | south west | 7:37 am |
| Sarria-Sant Gervasi, Spain | 3 | 2 | north west | 7:37 am |
| Horta-Guinardo, Spain | 3 | 2 | north | 7:37 am |
| Sant Marti, Spain | 4 | 3 | north east | 7:37 am |
| Sant Andreu, Spain | 6 | 3 | north | 7:37 am |
| Nou Barris, Spain | 6 | 4 | north | 7:37 am |
| L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain | 6 | 4 | south west | 7:37 am |
The antipode of Barcelona
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Barcelona, Spain and you come out at 41.39 degrees south, 177.83 degrees west. That point is near Lower Hutt, New Zealand. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Lower Hutt, New Zealand, 606 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 7:37 pm on Sunday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 41.39 degrees north becomes 41.39 degrees south, and 2.17 degrees east becomes 177.83 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Barcelona is one of the exceptions, with dry land on the far side. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-11, roughly twelve hours from Barcelona, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Barcelona
Today the sun rises in Barcelona at 7:31 am and sets at 5:38 pm, giving 10 hours 7 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 Barcelona.
7-day forecast for Barcelona
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 8 Nov | 18°C / 65°F | 11°C / 51°F | Partly cloudy | 0 mm |
| Mon 9 Nov | 20°C / 67°F | 13°C / 56°F | Cloudy | 0.1 mm |
| Tue 10 Nov | 21°C / 69°F | 15°C / 58°F | Clear sky | 0.1 mm |
| Wed 11 Nov | 21°C / 70°F | 13°C / 55°F | Cloudy | 5.1 mm |
| Thu 12 Nov | 19°C / 67°F | 18°C / 64°F | Cloudy | 22.6 mm |
| Fri 13 Nov | 20°C / 69°F | 15°C / 59°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Sat 14 Nov | 17°C / 63°F | 13°C / 55°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Sun and moon in Barcelona today
The sun is up in Barcelona for 10 hours 7 minutes today, from 7:31 am to 5:38 pm. The moon rises in Barcelona at 6:45 am and sets at 4:48 pm. The next phase is the new moon on November 9, 2026. The moon is new. The face turned towards us is unlit, so there is nothing to see even while it is above the horizon.
| Sun | Time in Barcelona |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:56 am |
| Nautical dawn | 6:29 am |
| Civil dawn | 7:02 am |
| Sunrise | 7:31 am |
| Solar noon | 12:35 pm |
| Sunset | 5:38 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:08 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 6:41 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:13 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 Barcelona | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 7:02 am to 7:13 am | 0h 11m |
| Morning golden hour | 7:13 am to 8:11 am | 0h 58m |
| Evening golden hour | 4:58 pm to 5:56 pm | 0h 58m |
| Evening blue hour | 5:56 pm to 6:08 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 Barcelona |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:45 am |
| Moonset | 4:48 pm |
| Phase | waning crescent, waning |
| Illumination | 1% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 28.8 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 395,200 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: Barcelona and four other places
Every hour of Sunday, November 8, 2026 in Barcelona, Spain, read across 4 other places. Columns are Barcelona 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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| Barcelona 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BarcelonaCET UTC+1 | 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 AngelesPST UTC-8 | 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 YorkEST UTC-5 | 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 |
| LondonGMT UTC+0 | 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 | 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 | 3:30+1 |
No hour on Sunday, November 8, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Los Angeles and Delhi are 13 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 Barcelona it is working hours in Barcelona, 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.
Prayer times in Barcelona
Seven days from November 8, 2026, computed for Barcelona, Spain at 41.39 degrees north, 2.17 degrees east, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday November 8 | 5:56 am | 7:31 am | 12:35 pm | 3:16 pm | 5:38 pm | 7:08 pm |
| Monday November 9 | 5:57 am | 7:32 am | 12:35 pm | 3:15 pm | 5:37 pm | 7:07 pm |
| Tuesday November 10 | 5:59 am | 7:34 am | 12:35 pm | 3:15 pm | 5:36 pm | 7:06 pm |
| Wednesday November 11 | 6:00 am | 7:35 am | 12:35 pm | 3:14 pm | 5:35 pm | 7:05 pm |
| Thursday November 12 | 6:01 am | 7:36 am | 12:35 pm | 3:13 pm | 5:34 pm | 7:04 pm |
| Friday November 13 | 6:02 am | 7:37 am | 12:36 pm | 3:12 pm | 5:34 pm | 7:04 pm |
| Saturday November 14 | 6:03 am | 7:38 am | 12:36 pm | 3:12 pm | 5:33 pm | 7:03 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Barcelona, 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 Barcelona
From Barcelona, Spain the qibla is 110.6 degrees on a true compass, which is east-southeast, or 20.6 degrees south of due east. The Kaaba is 4,159 km away, 2,584 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Barcelona, 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 Barcelona, 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.
Put a Barcelona clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Barcelona, Spain, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Europe/Madrid from the time zone database, so it stays right when Barcelona changes its clocks, and it shows CET to every visitor wherever they are reading from. It is a plain iframe: no account, no script to install, nothing to pay.
The box needs 183 pixels of height for these settings, which is what the code above sets, and the numbers show at full size from 305 pixels of width up. Narrower than that they scale down rather than wrapping, and turning a line off makes the box shorter. The code updates with either.
Barcelona time now: common questions
- What time is it in Barcelona, Spain right now?
- 7:37 am on Sunday November 8, 2026. Barcelona runs on CET, UTC+1.
- What time zone is Barcelona in?
- Europe/Madrid, currently CET at UTC+1. 89 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Barcelona?
- UTC+1 at this instant. It alternates between UTC+1 and UTC+2 across the year.
- Does Barcelona observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. The next change is March 28, 2027, when the clocks go forward.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Barcelona of New York?
- Barcelona is 6 hours ahead of New York, where it is 1:37 am right now.
- What time does the sun set in Barcelona today?
- 5:38 pm, after a sunrise at 7:31 am and 10 hours 7 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Barcelona?
- 41.39 degrees south, 177.83 degrees west, near Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
- When is the best time to call Barcelona from London?
- Between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm in Barcelona, which is 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in London.
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