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9–17 in Barcelona vs UTC
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About Barcelona
Home to roughly 1,620,343 residents, Barcelona is a notable city in Spain. The city sits at 12 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
For computers and clocks, Barcelona is anchored to the Europe/Madrid time zone, which encodes the city's daylight saving rules going back to the early 20th century. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the temperate belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (41.39°).
Spain's currency is EUR and its calling prefix is +34. Beyond the live clock, every datapoint on this page — sun events, holidays, time-zone offsets — is also available as machine-readable JSON, ready for agents and integrations.
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Questions about time in Barcelona
The current local time in Barcelona, Spain is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Barcelona uses the IANA time zone Europe/Madrid, currently UTC+1.
Whether Barcelona observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Europe/Madrid) is the source of truth.
Barcelona is currently 6 hours ahead of New York.
Barcelona is currently 1 hour ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Barcelona are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (41.3851, 2.1734).
Spain uses the EUR currency and the +34 international dialing code.
Barcelona sits at 41.3851° N, 2.1734° E, 12 m above sea level, in Spain.