Current time in Madrid, Spain right now
It is 9:03 am in Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸 right now, on Sunday, November 8, 2026. The city keeps Europe/Madrid, which is CET at UTC+1, so Madrid is 1 hour ahead of UTC, where it is 8:03 am. The sun rose in Madrid at 7:53 am and sets at 6:04 pm, which is 10 hours 11 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Madrid right now?
The time in Madrid, Spain is 9:03 am, 09:03 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.
Madrid sits at 40.42 degrees north and 3.70 degrees west, at a middle latitude and 4,494 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 15.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 18.7 degrees west of that line. Those 18.7 degrees are worth 74 minutes 49 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:59 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Madrid time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Madrid, Spain is Europe/Madrid. Right now it is running at UTC+1 and the abbreviation in force is CET. Madrid is on standard time at the moment, at UTC+1. It moves to UTC+2 for part of the year.
Daylight hours in Madrid today
The sun rose in Madrid at 7:53 am and sets at 6:04 pm, which is 10 hours 11 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Madrid, is at 12:59 pm, which is 59 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -16.65 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 32.9 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Madrid |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 7:53 am |
| Sunset | 6:04 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:59 pm |
| Day length | 10 hours 11 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 5:24 pm to 6:22 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 6:33 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 Madrid, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Madrid 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 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
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 Madrid.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Madrid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 12:03 am | -9 | 9 hours behind of Madrid |
| Chicago, Illinois | 2:03 am | -7 | 7 hours behind of Madrid |
| New York, New York | 3:03 am | -6 | 6 hours behind of Madrid |
| Toronto, Canada | 3:03 am | -6 | 6 hours behind of Madrid |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 5:03 am | -4 | 4 hours behind of Madrid |
| London, United Kingdom | 8:03 am | -1 | 1 hour behind of Madrid |
| Paris, France | 9:03 am | 0 | same time as Madrid |
| Berlin, Germany | 9:03 am | 0 | same time as Madrid |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 10:03 am | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Madrid |
| Moscow, Russia | 11:03 am | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Madrid |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 12:03 pm | +3 | 3 hours ahead of Madrid |
| Delhi, India | 1:33 pm | +4:30 | 4 hours 30 minutes ahead of Madrid |
| Singapore, Singapore | 4:03 pm | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Madrid |
| Hong Kong, China | 4:03 pm | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Madrid |
| Tokyo, Japan | 5:03 pm | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Madrid |
| Sydney, Australia | 7:03 pm | +10 | 10 hours ahead of Madrid |
Best time to call Madrid
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 Madrid | 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 Madrid, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madrid Centro | Madrid | 9:03 am | UTC+1 |
| Retiro | Madrid | 9:03 am | UTC+1 |
| Chamberi | Madrid | 9:03 am | UTC+1 |
| Arganzuela | Madrid | 9:03 am | UTC+1 |
| Salamanca | Madrid | 9:03 am | UTC+1 |
| Usera | Madrid | 9:03 am | UTC+1 |
| Moncloa-Aravaca | Madrid | 9:03 am | UTC+1 |
| Carabanchel | Madrid | 9:03 am | UTC+1 |
| Puente de Vallecas | Madrid | 9:03 am | UTC+1 |
| Latina | Madrid | 9:03 am | UTC+1 |
| Moratalaz | Madrid | 9:03 am | UTC+1 |
| Tetuan de las Victorias | Madrid | 9:03 am | UTC+1 |
| Ciudad Lineal | Madrid | 9:03 am | UTC+1 |
| Chamartin | Madrid | 9:03 am | UTC+1 |
| Villaverde | Madrid | 9:03 am | UTC+1 |
| San Blas-Canillejas | Madrid | 9:03 am | UTC+1 |
Cities on Europe/Madrid time
89 of our cities keep Europe/Madrid, so every one of them reads 9:03 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Madrid. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Madrid |
|---|---|---|
| Madrid Centro, Spain | 9:03 am | 0 km |
| Retiro, Spain | 9:03 am | 2 km |
| Chamberi, Spain | 9:03 am | 2 km |
| Arganzuela, Spain | 9:03 am | 2 km |
| Salamanca, Spain | 9:03 am | 2 km |
| Usera, Spain | 9:03 am | 3 km |
| Moncloa-Aravaca, Spain | 9:03 am | 3 km |
| Carabanchel, Spain | 9:03 am | 3 km |
| Puente de Vallecas, Spain | 9:03 am | 4 km |
| Latina, Spain | 9:03 am | 5 km |
| Moratalaz, Spain | 9:03 am | 5 km |
| Tetuan de las Victorias, Spain | 9:03 am | 5 km |
| Ciudad Lineal, Spain | 9:03 am | 5 km |
| Chamartin, Spain | 9:03 am | 6 km |
| Villaverde, Spain | 9:03 am | 7 km |
| San Blas-Canillejas, Spain | 9:03 am | 8 km |
Moon phase over Madrid tonight
The moon is a waning crescent tonight, 28.7 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 Madrid clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Madrid
The next change is on Sunday, March 28, 2027, 140 days from now, when the clocks in Madrid 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 Madrid 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 Madrid is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Madrid is Madrid Centro, Spain at 0 km, and the furthest is Lower Hutt, New Zealand at 19,869 km, which is 99% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madrid Centro, Spain | 0 | 0 | north east | 9:03 am |
| Retiro, Spain | 2 | 1 | east | 9:03 am |
| Chamberi, Spain | 2 | 1 | north | 9:03 am |
| Arganzuela, Spain | 2 | 1 | south | 9:03 am |
| Salamanca, Spain | 2 | 2 | north east | 9:03 am |
| Usera, Spain | 3 | 2 | south | 9:03 am |
| Moncloa-Aravaca, Spain | 3 | 2 | north west | 9:03 am |
| Carabanchel, Spain | 3 | 2 | south west | 9:03 am |
| Puente de Vallecas, Spain | 4 | 3 | south east | 9:03 am |
| Latina, Spain | 5 | 3 | south west | 9:03 am |
The antipode of Madrid
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Madrid, Spain and you come out at 40.42 degrees south, 176.30 degrees east. That point is near Lower Hutt, New Zealand. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Lower Hutt, New Zealand, 146 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 9:03 pm on Sunday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 40.42 degrees north becomes 40.42 degrees south, and 3.70 degrees west becomes 176.30 degrees east. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Madrid 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 Madrid, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Madrid
Today the sun rises in Madrid at 7:53 am and sets at 6:04 pm, giving 10 hours 11 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 Madrid.
7-day forecast for Madrid
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 8 Nov | 16°C / 61°F | 8°C / 46°F | Cloudy | 0 mm |
| Mon 9 Nov | 18°C / 64°F | 12°C / 54°F | Rain | 13.2 mm |
| Tue 10 Nov | 16°C / 61°F | 12°C / 53°F | Cloudy | 2.7 mm |
| Wed 11 Nov | 14°C / 58°F | 12°C / 54°F | Rain | 5.9 mm |
| Thu 12 Nov | 15°C / 59°F | 11°C / 52°F | Light rain showers | 1.2 mm |
| Fri 13 Nov | 15°C / 59°F | 11°C / 53°F | Partly cloudy | 1.5 mm |
| Sat 14 Nov | 14°C / 57°F | 10°C / 50°F | Light rain showers | 3.0 mm |
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Sun and moon in Madrid today
The sun is up in Madrid for 10 hours 11 minutes today, from 7:53 am to 6:04 pm. The moon rises in Madrid at 7:07 am and sets at 5:15 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 Madrid |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 6:19 am |
| Nautical dawn | 6:51 am |
| Civil dawn | 7:24 am |
| Sunrise | 7:53 am |
| Solar noon | 12:59 pm |
| Sunset | 6:04 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:33 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 7:05 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:37 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 | 7:24 am to 7:35 am | 0h 11m |
| Morning golden hour | 7:35 am to 8:32 am | 0h 57m |
| Evening golden hour | 5:24 pm to 6:22 pm | 0h 57m |
| Evening blue hour | 6:22 pm to 6:33 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 | 7:07 am |
| Moonset | 5:15 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: Madrid and four other places
Every hour of Sunday, November 8, 2026 in Madrid, Spain, read across 4 other places. Columns are Madrid 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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| Madrid 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MadridCET 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 Madrid it is working hours in Madrid, 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 Madrid
Seven days from November 8, 2026, computed for Madrid, Spain 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday November 8 | 6:19 am | 7:53 am | 12:59 pm | 3:42 pm | 6:04 pm | 7:32 pm |
| Monday November 9 | 6:20 am | 7:54 am | 12:59 pm | 3:41 pm | 6:03 pm | 7:31 pm |
| Tuesday November 10 | 6:21 am | 7:55 am | 12:59 pm | 3:40 pm | 6:02 pm | 7:30 pm |
| Wednesday November 11 | 6:22 am | 7:56 am | 12:59 pm | 3:40 pm | 6:01 pm | 7:29 pm |
| Thursday November 12 | 6:23 am | 7:57 am | 12:59 pm | 3:39 pm | 6:00 pm | 7:29 pm |
| Friday November 13 | 6:24 am | 7:58 am | 12:59 pm | 3:38 pm | 5:59 pm | 7:28 pm |
| Saturday November 14 | 6:25 am | 8:00 am | 12:59 pm | 3:37 pm | 5:58 pm | 7:27 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Madrid, 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 Madrid
From Madrid, Spain 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, 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 Madrid, 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 Madrid clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Madrid, Spain, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Europe/Madrid from the time zone database, so it stays right when Madrid 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.
Madrid time now: common questions
- What time is it in Madrid, Spain right now?
- 9:03 am on Sunday November 8, 2026. Madrid runs on CET, UTC+1.
- What time zone is Madrid in?
- Europe/Madrid, currently CET at UTC+1. 89 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Madrid?
- UTC+1 at this instant. It alternates between UTC+1 and UTC+2 across the year.
- Does Madrid observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. The next change is March 28, 2027, when the clocks go forward.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Madrid of New York?
- Madrid is 6 hours ahead of New York, where it is 3:03 am right now.
- What time does the sun set in Madrid today?
- 6:04 pm, after a sunrise at 7:53 am and 10 hours 11 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Madrid?
- 40.42 degrees south, 176.30 degrees east, near Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
- When is the best time to call Madrid from London?
- Between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm in Madrid, which is 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in London.
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