| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | ±0h | Becomes −1h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | +1h | Becomes ±0h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +3h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +8h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +9h | Becomes +10h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −5h | Becomes −6h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −8h | Becomes −9h on 1 Nov |
Malabo, Equatorial Guinea runs on UTC+1. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Malabo and New York is 5 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 4 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 14:00–18:00 in Malabo lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Malabo and London currently share the same clock. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 9 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–18:00 in Malabo lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Malabo and Tokyo is 8 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hour a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–10:00 in Malabo lines up with 17:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Lagos, Kinshasa, Algiers. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Malabo.
Malabo (Equatorial Guinea) is home to roughly 297K people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:12, sunset at 18:17. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 4° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Equatorial Guinea
Capital
Ciudad de la Paz
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+1 · Africa/Malabo
Coordinates
3.75°N, 8.78°E
Currency
XAF (FCFA)
Calling Code
+240
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Spanish, French, Portuguese
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Malabo sits on Bioko island, roughly 240 kilometres from the mainland that makes up most of Equatorial Guinea's territory. In January 2026 a presidential decree made Ciudad de la Paz, a new city in the mainland forest, the country's capital, and gave the government a year to move there.
The clock: Malabo keeps UTC+1. Equatorial Guinea is the only sovereign African state with Spanish as an official language.
Malabo lies at 8.8°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 6.2° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 25 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:25 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+1 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 12h 20m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 54m. The swing between them is 26 minutes. Within a few degrees of the equator the length of the day barely moves all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Malabo the sun comes up earliest on 26 October at 06:09, while the latest sunset waits until 22 July at 18:40. 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 Malabo that civil twilight runs about 21 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 Malabo, Equatorial Guinea is Africa/Malabo with a current UTC offset of UTC+1.
Malabo has an estimated population of 297K and is located at coordinates 3.75°N, 8.78°E.
Malabo gets 12h 20m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 54m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Malabo falls at about 12:25 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 6.2° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Capital That Moved to the Mainland: Malabo sits on Bioko island, roughly 240 kilometres from the mainland that makes up most of Equatorial Guinea's territory.