| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | +1h | Becomes ±0h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | +2h | Becomes +1h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +4h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +9h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +10h | Becomes +11h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −4h | Becomes −5h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −7h | Becomes −8h on 1 Nov |
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Nouakchott, Mauritania runs on UTC+0. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+0 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Nouakchott and New York is 4 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 5 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 13:00–18:00 in Nouakchott lines up with 09:00–14:00 in New York. The time difference between Nouakchott and London is 1 hour. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 8 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–17:00 in Nouakchott lines up with 10:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Nouakchott and Tokyo is 9 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 Reykjavík, Casablanca, Accra. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Nouakchott.
Nouakchott (Mauritania) is home to roughly 1.2M people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:54, sunset at 18:53. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+0 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 18° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
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Mauritania
Capital
Nouakchott 👑
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
GMT · Africa/Nouakchott
Coordinates
18.08°N, 15.98°W
Currency
MRU (UM)
Calling Code
+222
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Arabic
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Nouakchott was designed in 1958 for about 15,000 people and now holds over a million — growth driven largely by drought pushing nomadic populations into the city. The Sahara is still advancing toward it.
The clock: Nouakchott keeps UTC+0. Its fishing port hosts one of the largest artisanal fleets in West Africa, with hundreds of painted pirogues landing daily.
Nouakchott lies at 16.0°W. Its time zone, UTC+0, is built around the prime meridian (0°). The 16.0° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 64 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 13:04 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+0 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 13h 13m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 3m. The swing between them is 2h 10m. 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 Nouakchott the sun comes up earliest on 6 June at 06:27, while the latest sunset waits until 8 July at 19:44. 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 Nouakchott 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 Nouakchott, Mauritania is Africa/Nouakchott with a current UTC offset of UTC+0.
Nouakchott has an estimated population of 1.2M and is located at coordinates 18.08°N, 15.98°W. It is the capital city of Mauritania.
Nouakchott gets 13h 13m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 3m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Nouakchott falls at about 13:04 on UTC+0 standard time, because the city sits 16.0° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Capital Built for Fifteen Thousand: Nouakchott was designed in 1958 for about 15,000 people and now holds over a million — growth driven largely by drought pushing nomadic populations into the city. The Sahara is still advancing toward it.