Spain · CEST
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Malaga, Spain runs on UTC+2. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+1 in winter, UTC+2 in summer. Next change: 26 Oct. There is a 6-hour difference between Malaga and New York. 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 Malaga lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. There is a 1-hour difference between Malaga and London. 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 Malaga lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. There is a 7-hour difference between Malaga and Tokyo. 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 Malaga 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 Malaga.
Practical Info
Malaga (Spain) is home to roughly 580K people. Today brings about 14.6 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:00, sunset at 21:36. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+1 in winter, UTC+2 in summer. Next change: 26 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 37° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Spain
Capital
Madrid
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
CEST · Europe/Madrid
Coordinates
36.72°N, 4.42°W
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+34
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Spanish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga in 1881 and left at the age of ten. The city waited until 2003 to open a museum in his name, and it now holds well over 200 works donated by his family.
The clock: Málaga records around 2,900 hours of sunshine a year, among the most of any European city. On CET, that sunshine arrives about ninety minutes later on the clock than its longitude would suggest.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
8h overlap