What time is it in Cape Verde?

Cape Verde stays on UTC−1:00 all year. Its offset from UTC never moves, so its relationship to places that do change shifts twice a year instead — which is usually why someone checks. Right now it is 1 hour behind UTC, and 4 hours ahead of New York.

Cape Verde is 4 hours ahead of New York and 7 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 1:00 pm in Cape Verde.

To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.

The day is 11 hours 27 minutes long in Cape Verde, and losing 1 minute a day. The sun peaks at 12:18 pm, 18 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Cape Verde sits 34 minutes of solar time west of UTC−1:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

Cape Verde lies inside the tropics, so the sun passes directly overhead at noon twice a year — around April 30 and August 12 in 2026, when a vertical object casts almost no shadow. Nowhere outside the tropics ever sees that. The longest day is 13 hours 1 minute and the shortest 11 hours 15 minutes, 106 minutes apart.

Cape Verde has kept UTC−1:00 since Tuesday, November 25, 1975, when it moved from UTC−2:00. Before that its clocks read 1 hour behind what they read now.