Tunisia · CET
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Tunis, Tunisia 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 Tunis 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 Tunis lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Tunis 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 Tunis lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. There is a 8-hour difference between Tunis 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 Tunis 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 Tunis.
Practical Info
Tunis (Tunisia) is home to roughly 1.1M people. Today brings about 14.6 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:06, sunset at 19:42. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 37° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
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Tunisia
Capital
Tunis 👑
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
CET · Africa/Tunis
Coordinates
36.81°N, 10.18°E
Currency
TND (د.ت)
Calling Code
+216
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Arabic
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Carthage, now a suburb of Tunis, was destroyed by Rome in 146 BC after three wars, then rebuilt by Rome as one of the largest cities in its empire. What survives is mostly the Roman version, built on top of the Punic one.
The clock: Tunisia keeps UTC+1 with no daylight saving. Its medina, listed by UNESCO, holds around 700 monuments in about 270 hectares.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
7h overlap