Current time in Retiro, Spain right now

It is 9:03 am in Retiro, Spain 🇪🇸 right now, on Sunday, November 8, 2026. The city keeps Europe/Madrid, which is CET at UTC+1, so Retiro is 1 hour ahead of UTC, where it is 8:03 am. The sun rose in Retiro at 7:52 am and sets at 6:04 pm, which is 10 hours 11 minutes of daylight.

What time is it in Retiro right now?

The time in Retiro, 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.

Retiro sits at 40.41 degrees north and 3.68 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 44 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:58 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.

Retiro time zone and UTC offset

The IANA zone for Retiro, Spain is Europe/Madrid. Right now it is running at UTC+1 and the abbreviation in force is CET. Retiro is on standard time at the moment, at UTC+1. It moves to UTC+2 for part of the year.

Daylight hours in Retiro today

The sun rose in Retiro at 7:52 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 Retiro, is at 12:58 pm, which is 58 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.

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 Retiro, which works from the same coordinates.

Where Retiro 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 Retiro 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 Retiro.

Best time to call Retiro

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 Spain

We cover 93 cities in Spain. These are the ones nearest to Retiro, with the time on their clocks right now.

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 Retiro. Nearest first:

Moon phase over Retiro 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 Retiro clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.

When the clocks change in Retiro

The next change is on Sunday, March 28, 2027, 140 days from now, when the clocks in Retiro 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 Retiro 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 Retiro is from other cities

Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Retiro is Madrid Centro, Spain at 2 km, and the furthest is Lower Hutt, New Zealand at 19,867 km, which is 99% of the way to being exactly opposite.

The antipode of Retiro

Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Retiro, Spain and you come out at 40.41 degrees south, 176.32 degrees east. That point is near Lower Hutt, New Zealand. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Lower Hutt, New Zealand, 148 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: 40.41 degrees north becomes 40.41 degrees south, and 3.68 degrees west becomes 176.32 degrees east. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Retiro 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 Retiro, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.

Sunrise and sunset in Retiro

Today the sun rises in Retiro at 7:52 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 Retiro.

Sun and moon in Retiro today

The sun is up in Retiro for 10 hours 11 minutes today, from 7:52 am to 6:04 pm. The moon rises in Retiro 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.

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 Retiro

Seven days from November 8, 2026, computed for Retiro, Spain at 40.41 degrees north, 3.68 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.

Dhuhr is solar noon at Retiro, 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 Retiro

From Retiro, 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 4,596 km away, 2,856 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

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

Retiro time now: common questions

What time is it in Retiro, Spain right now?

9:03 am on Sunday November 8, 2026. Retiro runs on CET, UTC+1.

What time zone is Retiro in?

Europe/Madrid, currently CET at UTC+1. 89 of the cities on this site keep that zone.

What is the UTC offset for Retiro?

UTC+1 at this instant. It alternates between UTC+1 and UTC+2 across the year.

Does Retiro observe daylight saving time?

Yes. The next change is March 28, 2027, when the clocks go forward.

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

Retiro is 6 hours ahead of New York, where it is 3:03 am right now.

What time does the sun set in Retiro today?

6:04 pm, after a sunrise at 7:52 am and 10 hours 11 minutes of daylight.

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

40.41 degrees south, 176.32 degrees east, near Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

When is the best time to call Retiro from London?

Between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm in Retiro, which is 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in London.

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