What time is it in Western Sahara?

Western Sahara 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.

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

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 10 hours 51 minutes long in El Aaiun, and losing 1 minute a day. The sun peaks at 12:37 pm, 37 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and El Aaiun sits 53 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.

The solar year swings 3 hours 26 minutes in El Aaiun: 13 hours 51 minutes of daylight at the June solstice against 10 hours 26 minutes at the December one. Being north of the equator, its longest day falls in June — the opposite way round from the other hemisphere.

Western Sahara has kept UTC+0:00 since Sunday, September 20, 2026, when it moved from UTC+1:00. Before that its clocks read 1 hour ahead of what they read now.

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