| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −2h | Becomes −3h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −1h | Becomes −2h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +1h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +6h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +7h | Becomes +8h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −7h | Becomes −8h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −10h | Becomes −11h on 1 Nov |
Toamasina, Madagascar runs on UTC+3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Toamasina and New York is 7 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 16:00–18:00 in Toamasina lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Toamasina 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: 11:00–18:00 in Toamasina lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Toamasina and Tokyo is 6 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–12:00 in Toamasina lines up with 15:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Moscow, Istanbul, Nairobi. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Toamasina.
Toamasina (Madagascar) is home to roughly 330K people. Today brings about 12.2 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:25, sunset at 17:39. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 18° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Madagascar
Capital
Antananarivo
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Indian/Antananarivo
Coordinates
18.15°S, 49.40°E
Currency
MGA (Ar)
Calling Code
+261
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
Malagasy, French
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Toamasina handles the majority of Madagascar's foreign trade, including most of its vanilla — the island produces the largest share of the world's supply, and prices have swung by a factor of ten within a few years.
The clock: Toamasina keeps UTC+3. The Canal des Pangalanes behind the coast is a 650 km chain of lagoons linked into an inland waterway.
Toamasina lies at 49.4°E. Its time zone, UTC+3, is built around the 45°E meridian. The 4.4° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 18 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:42 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+3 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 13h 13m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 11h 2m. The swing between them is 2h 11m. 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 Toamasina the sun comes up earliest on 25 November at 04:58, while the latest sunset waits until 19 January at 18:24. 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 Toamasina 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 Toamasina, Madagascar is Indian/Antananarivo with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Toamasina has an estimated population of 330K and is located at coordinates 18.15°S, 49.40°E.
Toamasina gets 13h 13m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 2m on its shortest, averaging 12h 6m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Toamasina falls at about 11:42 on UTC+3 standard time, because the city sits 4.4° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Madagascar's Main Port: Toamasina handles the majority of Madagascar's foreign trade, including most of its vanilla — the island produces the largest share of the world's supply, and prices have swung by a factor of ten within a few years.