AntananarivoMadagascar
Current time in Antananarivo, Madagascar
Friday, 25 September 2026
East Africa TimeUTC+03:00
⛶ Full-screen clockAntananarivo time at a glance
- Country
- Madagascar
- Location
- Capital city of Madagascar
- Time zone
Indian/Antananarivo- UTC offset now
UTC+03:00- Current zone label
- GMT+3
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Antananarivo time guide
Does Antananarivo change its clocks?
UTC+03:00.- Year-round offset
- East Africa Time (EAT), UTC+03:00
- Time-zone identifier
- Indian/Antananarivo
- Antananarivo and London
- 3 hours ahead during GMT; 2 hours ahead during BST
- Antananarivo and New York
- 8 hours ahead during EST; 7 hours ahead during EDT
City, district and urban region
Antananarivo figures depend on the selected boundary
Madagascar's official projections publish Antananarivo Renivohitra separately from surrounding districts such as Antananarivo Atsimondrano. Combining those districts produces a metropolitan measure, not a city-only total.
Time-zone identity for Antananarivo
- IANA zone
Indian/Antananarivo- UTC offset now
- UTC+03:00
- Current zone label
- GMT+3
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Antananarivo is currently 3 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Antananarivo
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Thursday, 30 September 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Antananarivo
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Indian/Antananarivo, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the previous 5 years.
Next 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the next 5 years.
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 Antananarivo, capital of Madagascar
Antananarivo is the capital of Madagascar. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Madagascar
- Administrative area
- Analamanga, Madagascar
- Population
- 1,349,501
- Coordinates
- 18.9137° S, 47.5361° E. The elevation is 1,274 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Antananarivo
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Antananarivo. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- IvatoAnalamanga, Madagascar14 km northwest
Indian/AntananarivoSame local time - AmbohidratrimoAnalamanga, Madagascar15 km northwest
Indian/AntananarivoSame local time - AlarobiaAnalamanga, Madagascar22 km east
Indian/AntananarivoSame local time - ManjakandrianaAnalamanga, Madagascar28 km east
Indian/AntananarivoSame local time - AmbohitrolomahitsyAnalamanga, Madagascar28 km northeast
Indian/AntananarivoSame local time - AnkazondandyAnalamanga, Madagascar35 km northeast
Indian/AntananarivoSame local time
Sources for Antananarivo 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.
- RGPH-3 2018 Demographic ProjectionsNational Institute of Statistics Madagascar (INSTAT) · 2019-2025 projections · AccessedOfficial district population projections based on the 2018 census.