RabatMorocco
Rabat time at a glance
- Country
- Morocco
- Location
- Capital city of Morocco
- Time zone
Africa/Casablanca- UTC offset now
UTC+01:00- Current zone label
- GMT+1
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Rabat time guide
When does Rabat change its clocks?
UTC+01:00.- Usual offset
- UTC+01:00
- Ramadan adjustment
- UTC+00:00 for a temporary period announced each year
- Time-zone identifier
- Africa/Casablanca
- Rabat and London
- The difference varies with British Summer Time and Morocco's Ramadan adjustment
Commune, prefecture and urban region
Rabat-Sale-Kenitra is not Rabat city
Morocco's 2024 census publishes legal population at commune, prefecture and regional levels. Rabat commune is only one part of the larger Rabat-Sale-Kenitra region, so regional totals should not be labeled as the capital city population.
Time-zone identity for Rabat
- IANA zone
Africa/Casablanca- UTC offset now
- UTC+01:00
- Current zone label
- GMT+1
- Clock-change status
- Future clock changes are temporarily unavailable while updated rules for this location are being verified.
Rabat is currently 1 hour ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Rabat
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Africa/Casablanca, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
- UTC+01:00 UTC+01:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+00:00 UTC+00:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+01:00 UTC+01:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+00:00 UTC+00:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+01:00 UTC+01:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+00:00 UTC+00:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+01:00 UTC+01:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+00:00 UTC+00:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+01:00 UTC+01:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+00:00 UTC+00:00UTC offset decreased by
Next 5 years
Future changes are temporarily unavailable while updated time-zone rules are being verified.
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 Rabat, capital of Morocco
Rabat is the capital of Morocco. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Morocco
- Administrative area
- Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco
- Population
- 1,655,753
- Coordinates
- 34.0132° N, 6.8326° W. The elevation is 46 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Rabat
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Rabat. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- SaléRabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco5.4 km northeast
Africa/CasablancaSame local time - Salé Al JadidaRabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco8.7 km east
Africa/CasablancaSame local time - TemaraRabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco12 km southwest
Africa/CasablancaSame local time - El HarhouraRabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco12 km southwest
Africa/CasablancaSame local time - BouknadelRabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco15 km northeast
Africa/CasablancaSame local time - Aïn AttigRabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco19 km southwest
Africa/CasablancaSame local time
Sources for Rabat 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.
- 2024 General Population and Housing Census resultsHigh Commission for Planning Morocco · 2024 census · AccessedOfficial legal population results by region, prefecture and commune.