Current time in Spain

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Local time in Spain

The time in Spain is 1.0 hour ahead of UTC and 6.0 hours ahead of Ashburn. There is no daylightsaving in effect at the moment.

Details for the time in Spain

Current time	12:41 p.m.
Timezone	Central European Time (CET)
Olson timezone name	Europe/Madrid
Time difference	6.0 hours ahead of Ashburn
	1.0 hour ahead of UTC

More about the time in Spain

Spain uses Central European Time CET and Central European Sumer Time CEST. CET is UTC +0100 and CEST is UTC +0200. Spain's latitude and longitude is 40° 00N and 4° 00W! Therefore Spain is in the wrong time zone. The Prime Meridian runs through the country, geographically it is clear Spain should be observing GMT. Considering its high latitude the use of daylight savings time in Spain is less surprising.

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