Current time in Spain

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Local time in Spain

The time in Spain is 2.0 hours ahead of UTC and 6.0 hours ahead of Ashburn. There is daylightsaving in effect at the moment.

Details for the time in Spain

Current time	10:58 p.m.
Daylight saving time	1.0 hour
Timezone	Central European Summer Time (CEST)
Olson timezone name	Europe/Madrid
Time difference	6.0 hours ahead of Ashburn
	2.0 hours ahead of UTC

Spain daylight saving time (DST)

DST Started	March 31, 2019 Forward 1 hour
DST Ends	Oct. 27, 2019 Backward 1 hour
Next DST Start	March 29, 2020 Forward 1 hour

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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