| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −1h | |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | ±0h | |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +2h | Becomes +3h on 25 Oct |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +7h | Becomes +8h on 25 Oct |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +8h | Becomes +9h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −6h | Becomes −5h on 24 Oct |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −9h | Becomes −8h on 24 Oct |
Alicante, Spain runs on UTC+2. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+1 in winter, UTC+2 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. The time difference between Alicante and New York is 6 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 15:00–18:00 in Alicante lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Alicante and London is 1 hour. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 8 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 10:00–18:00 in Alicante lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Alicante and Tokyo is 7 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–11:00 in Alicante lines up with 16:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Alicante.
Alicante (Spain) is home to roughly 340K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:56, sunset at 19:47. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+1 in winter, UTC+2 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 38° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Spain
Capital
Madrid
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Madrid
Coordinates
38.35°N, 0.48°W
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+34
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Spanish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Hogueras de San Juan burns hundreds of large sculptures across Alicante on the night of 24 June, St John's Day, after several days on display. One figure is pardoned each year and kept in a museum.
The clock: Alicante keeps UTC+1. Spain's official altitude datum — the reference point for every elevation on the Spanish mainland — is a benchmark at Alicante's town hall.
Alicante lies at 0.5°W. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 15.5° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 62 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 13:02 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 122 minutes and pushing solar noon to 14:02.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 51m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 29m. The swing between them is 5h 21m. This is the latitude band where the difference between summer and winter evenings is most obvious.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Alicante the sun comes up earliest on 14 June at 06:37, while the latest sunset waits until 29 June at 21:30. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Alicante that civil twilight runs about 26 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 32 minutes at the solstice.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Alicante, Spain is Europe/Madrid with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Alicante has an estimated population of 340K and is located at coordinates 38.35°N, 0.48°W.
Alicante gets 14h 51m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 29m on its shortest, averaging 12h 12m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Alicante falls at about 13:02 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 15.5° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Bonfires for St John's Day: The Hogueras de San Juan burns hundreds of large sculptures across Alicante on the night of 24 June, St John's Day, after several days on display. One figure is pardoned each year and kept in a museum.