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Current time in Gibraltar, Gibraltar
Thursday, 24 September 2026
Central European Summer TimeUTC+02:00
⛶ Full-screen clockGibraltar time at a glance
- Country
- Gibraltar
- Location
- Capital city of Gibraltar
- Time zone
Europe/Gibraltar- UTC offset now
UTC+02:00- Current zone label
- CEST
- Next clock change
- 25 October 2026 at 02:00 CET
Gibraltar time guide
Does Gibraltar change its clocks?
UTC+02:00.- Standard time
- Central European Time (CET), UTC+01:00
- Daylight time
- Central European Summer Time (CEST), UTC+02:00
- Time-zone identifier
- Europe/Gibraltar
- Gibraltar and London
- Normally 1 hour ahead throughout the year
City and territory
Gibraltar’s city and territory are generally reported together
The 2022 Census of Gibraltar counted the territory’s population as a whole rather than defining a separate metropolitan boundary. Census measures can also differ by usual residence, presence on census night and nationality, so the measure must accompany the figure.
Time-zone identity for Gibraltar
- IANA zone
Europe/Gibraltar- UTC offset now
- UTC+02:00
- Current zone label
- CEST
- Clock-change status
- An offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Gibraltar is currently 2 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Next clock change in Gibraltar
This change comes from the IANA Time Zone Database. It is described as an offset change unless its daylight-saving purpose can be verified.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Gibraltar
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Europe/Gibraltar, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
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Dates are calculated from IANA time-zone rules. The calculation checks for offset changes throughout the displayed period and resolves each change to the nearest second.
Capital city context
About Gibraltar, capital of Gibraltar
Gibraltar is the capital of Gibraltar. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Gibraltar
- Administrative area
- Gibraltar
- Population
- 26,544
- Coordinates
- 36.1447° N, 5.3526° W. The elevation is 11 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Gibraltar
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Gibraltar. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- RabatRabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco273 km southwest
Africa/Casablanca1 hour behind - LisbonPortugal441 km northwest
Europe/Lisbon1 hour behind - MadridSpain496 km north
Europe/MadridSame local time - AlgiersAlgeria758 km east
Africa/Algiers1 hour behind - Andorra la VellaAndorra921 km northeast
Europe/AndorraSame local time - MonacoMunicipality of Monaco, Monaco1,375 km northeast
Europe/MonacoSame local time
Sources for Gibraltar time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 4 sources
- GeoNames cities15000GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · AccessedCity and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
- IANA Time Zone DatabaseInternet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · AccessedTime-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
- Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · AccessedEnglish display names for countries, currencies and languages.
- Census of Gibraltar 2022Government of Gibraltar Statistics Office · Census date 2022-11-14 · AccessedOfficial census definitions and population tables for Gibraltar.