Current Time in Madrid, Spain

How Madrid Keeps Time

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

Madrid 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 Madrid at 8:35 am today and sets at 7:22 pm — 10 hours 47 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 1:58 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (40.42, -3.70), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Madrid has about 15 hours 4 minutes of daylight in June and 9 hours 17 minutes in December. The difference is about 5 hours 47 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

At the current civil offset, Madrid’s longitude corresponds to a difference of about 2 hours 15 minutes between zone time and longitude-based mean solar time. Today’s calculated solar noon is 1:58 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.

Madrid at a Glance

How Madrid Compares with Other Cities

Read the last column as the other city relative to Madrid. 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 Madrid

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.