| 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 |
Praia, 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 Praia 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 Praia lines up with 09:00–15:00 in New York. The time difference between Praia 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 Praia lines up with 11:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Praia 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 Mindelo. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Praia.
Praia (Cape Verde) is home to roughly 160K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:23, sunset at 18:24. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−1 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 15° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Cape Verde
Capital
Praia 👑
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC−1 · Atlantic/Cape_Verde
Coordinates
14.93°N, 23.51°W
Currency
CVE ($)
Calling Code
+238
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Portuguese
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Cidade Velha, near Praia, was founded in 1462 and is generally reckoned the first permanent European settlement in the tropics. It became a hub of the Atlantic slave trade and was sacked by Francis Drake in 1585.
The clock: Cape Verde keeps UTC−1, one of very few inhabited places on that offset — a single hour behind Greenwich in the middle of the Atlantic.
Praia lies at 23.5°W. Its time zone, UTC−1, is built around the 15°W meridian. The 8.5° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 34 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:34 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 1m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 14m. The swing between them is 1h 46m. 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 Praia the sun comes up earliest on 3 June at 06:03, while the latest sunset waits until 10 July at 19:08. 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 Praia 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 Praia, Cape Verde is Atlantic/Cape_Verde with a current UTC offset of UTC−1.
Praia has an estimated population of 160K and is located at coordinates 14.93°N, 23.51°W. It is the capital city of Cape Verde.
Praia gets 13h 1m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 14m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Praia falls at about 12:34 on UTC−1 standard time, because the city sits 8.5° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The First European City in the Tropics: Cidade Velha, near Praia, was founded in 1462 and is generally reckoned the first permanent European settlement in the tropics. It became a hub of the Atlantic slave trade and was sacked by Francis Drake in 1585.