| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00Thu | +2h | Becomes +1h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00Thu | +3h | Becomes +2h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00Thu | +5h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +10h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +11h | Becomes +12h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | −3h | Becomes −4h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | −6h | Becomes −7h on 1 Nov |
Mindelo, Cape Verde runs on UTC−1. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−1 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Mindelo and New York is 3 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 6 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 12:00–18:00 in Mindelo lines up with 09:00–15:00 in New York. The time difference between Mindelo 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: 09:00–16:00 in Mindelo lines up with 11:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Mindelo and Tokyo is 10 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with Tokyo, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Praia. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Mindelo.
Mindelo (Cape Verde) is home to roughly 70K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:30, sunset at 18:30. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−1 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 17° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Cape Verde
Capital
Praia
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC−1 · Atlantic/Cape_Verde
Coordinates
16.89°N, 25.00°W
Currency
CVE ($)
Calling Code
+238
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Portuguese
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Mindelo is the home of morna, the melancholy Cape Verdean song form that Cesária Évora carried worldwide. UNESCO listed morna as intangible heritage in 2019.
The clock: Mindelo keeps UTC−1, one of very few inhabited places on that offset. Its carnival is modelled on Brazil's and is the largest in the archipelago.
Mindelo lies at 25.0°W. Its time zone, UTC−1, is built around the 15°W meridian. The 10.0° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 40 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:40 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 13h 8m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 7m. The swing between them is 2h 1m. 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 Mindelo the sun comes up earliest on 5 June at 06:05, while the latest sunset waits until 9 July at 19:18. 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 Mindelo 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 Mindelo, Cape Verde is Atlantic/Cape_Verde with a current UTC offset of UTC−1.
Mindelo has an estimated population of 70K and is located at coordinates 16.89°N, 25.00°W.
Mindelo gets 13h 8m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 7m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Mindelo falls at about 12:40 on UTC−1 standard time, because the city sits 10.0° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Where the Morna Was Sung: Mindelo is the home of morna, the melancholy Cape Verdean song form that Cesária Évora carried worldwide. UNESCO listed morna as intangible heritage in 2019.