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9–17 in Madrid vs UTC
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- Día de la Constitución Española6 Dec 2026
- La inmaculada concepción8 Dec 2026
- Navidad25 Dec 2026
- Año Nuevo1 Jan 2027
- Día de los Reyes Magos6 Jan 2027
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About Madrid
Home to roughly 3,223,334 residents, Madrid is a large regional centre in Spain. Its terrain rests around 667 m of elevation.
The Europe/Madrid zone governs civic time in Madrid; this identifier is the canonical reference used by every operating system on Earth. Sun behaviour here follows the temperate pattern of the northern hemisphere, with the steepest seasonal day-length swings around the equinoxes.
Locally, prices are quoted in EUR and the international dialing code is +34. This page exposes Madrid's exact local time alongside sunrise, sunset, public holidays, and a structured-data feed at the JSON link below — useful for spreadsheets, scheduling tools, and AI assistants alike.
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Questions about time in Madrid
The current local time in Madrid, Spain is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Madrid uses the IANA time zone Europe/Madrid, currently UTC+1.
Whether Madrid 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.
Madrid is currently 6 hours ahead of New York.
Madrid is currently 1 hour ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Madrid are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (40.4168, -3.7038).
Spain uses the EUR currency and the +34 international dialing code.
Madrid sits at 40.4168° N, 3.7038° W, 667 m above sea level, in Spain.