Morocco · WEST
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Meknes, Morocco runs on UTC+1. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. There is a 5-hour difference between Meknes and New York. 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 Meknes lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Meknes 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 Meknes lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. There is a 8-hour difference between Meknes and Tokyo. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–10:00 in Meknes lines up with 17:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Lisbon, Lagos, Casablanca. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Meknes.
Practical Info
Meknes (Morocco) is home to roughly 630K people. Today brings about 14.4 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:12, sunset at 20:36. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 34° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
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Morocco
Capital
Rabat
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
WEST · Africa/Casablanca
Coordinates
33.90°N, 5.55°W
Currency
MAD (د.م.)
Calling Code
+212
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Arabic
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Moulay Ismail built roughly 40 kilometres of walls around Meknes from 1672, along with granaries designed to hold twenty years of grain and stables said to have housed 12,000 horses. He ruled for 55 years and worked tens of thousands of labourers on it.
The clock: Meknes keeps UTC+1, reverting to UTC+0 during Ramadan. Volubilis, the best-preserved Roman site in Morocco, is half an hour away.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
7h overlap