| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −2h | Becomes −3h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −1h | Becomes −2h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +1h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +6h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +7h | Becomes +8h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −7h | Becomes −8h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −10h | Becomes −11h on 1 Nov |
Antananarivo, Madagascar runs on UTC+3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Antananarivo and New York is 7 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 16:00–18:00 in Antananarivo lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Antananarivo and London is 2 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 7 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 11:00–18:00 in Antananarivo lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Antananarivo and Tokyo is 6 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–12:00 in Antananarivo lines up with 15:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Moscow, Istanbul, Nairobi. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Antananarivo.
Antananarivo (Madagascar) is home to roughly 3.2M people. Today brings about 12.2 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:32, sunset at 17:47. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 19° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Madagascar
Capital
Antananarivo 👑
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Indian/Antananarivo
Coordinates
18.88°S, 47.51°E
Currency
MGA (Ar)
Calling Code
+261
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
Malagasy, French
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Madagascar separated from other landmasses roughly 88 million years ago, and around 90% of its wildlife exists nowhere else — including all 100-odd lemur species. Antananarivo is the base for most research on them.
The clock: Antananarivo keeps UTC+3 at about 1,280 metres, which makes it markedly cooler than the coast — the highlands can drop near freezing in July.
Antananarivo lies at 47.5°E. Its time zone, UTC+3, is built around the 45°E meridian. The 2.5° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 10 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:50 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+3 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 13h 16m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 10h 59m. The swing between them is 2h 16m. Inside the tropics the day length stays within a narrow band all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Antananarivo the sun comes up earliest on 26 November at 05:04, while the latest sunset waits until 19 January at 18:33. 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 Antananarivo that civil twilight runs about 22 minutes at the equinox.
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 Antananarivo, Madagascar is Indian/Antananarivo with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Antananarivo has an estimated population of 3.2M and is located at coordinates 18.88°S, 47.51°E. It is the capital city of Madagascar.
Antananarivo gets 13h 16m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 59m on its shortest, averaging 12h 6m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Antananarivo falls at about 11:50 on UTC+3 standard time, because the city sits 2.5° from the meridian its zone is built on.
An Island of Species Found Nowhere Else: Madagascar separated from other landmasses roughly 88 million years ago, and around 90% of its wildlife exists nowhere else — including all 100-odd lemur species. Antananarivo is the base for most research on them.