Current Time in Bilbao, Spain

How Bilbao Keeps Time

Bilbao keeps CEST, UTC+2. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Bilbao; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.

Bilbao runs on the Europe/Madrid zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC+2 right now. The clocks change twice a year here: UTC+1 on standard time and UTC+2 while daylight saving is in force. The next change is on 25 October 2026, when clocks go back one hour.

The sun rises in Bilbao at 8:36 am today and sets at 7:15 pm — 10 hours 38 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 1:55 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (43.26, -2.93), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Bilbao has about 15 hours 24 minutes of daylight in June and 8 hours 58 minutes in December. The difference is about 6 hours 25 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

At the current civil offset, Bilbao’s longitude corresponds to a difference of about 2 hours 12 minutes between zone time and longitude-based mean solar time. Today’s calculated solar noon is 1:55 pm rather than 12:00 on the clock.

CEST is one of several zones in Spain, so a time quoted for the country as a whole is not necessarily the time here. Check the city rather than the country when it matters.

Bilbao at a Glance

How Bilbao Compares with Other Cities

Read the last column as the other city relative to Bilbao. Where either place uses daylight saving, the gap changes for part of the year — the time difference calculator always shows today’s figure.

Nearby Listed Cities to Bilbao

Distances are straight-line geographic distances between the coordinates used by the directory; road or rail distances will be longer.

Other Cities in Spain

Spain keeps more than one zone, so these do not all read the same.