What time is it in Mauritania?

Mauritania stays on UTC+0:00 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 on UTC, and 5 hours ahead of New York.

Nouakchott is 5 hours ahead of New York and 8 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 2:00 pm in Nouakchott.

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 19 minutes long in Nouakchott, and losing 1 minute a day. The sun peaks at 12:48 pm, 48 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Nouakchott sits 64 minutes of solar time west of UTC+0:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

Nouakchott lies inside the tropics, so the sun passes directly overhead at noon twice a year — around May 12 and July 31 in 2026, when a vertical object casts almost no shadow. Nowhere outside the tropics ever sees that. The longest day is 13 hours 13 minutes and the shortest 11 hours 3 minutes, 130 minutes apart.

Mauritania’s offset has not moved once since 1970 — no daylight saving, and no change of zone.

On UTC+0:00 right now, the same clock as Mauritania: