Antananarivo, Madagascar Β· UTC+3
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Antananarivo is in the Indian/Antananarivo timezone (EAT/UTC+3), with no daylight saving. Madagascarβs highland capital has a population of around 3 million.
Antananarivo sits on a ridge in the central highlands of Madagascar at around 1,280 meters elevation. The cityβs topography is unusual: densely built up across a series of hills and ridges, with rice paddies filling the valleys between them. It is a city you see all at once from any high point, a red-tiled, tiered townscape above the agricultural lowlands.
The clock is East Africa Time, UTC+3. The IANA identifier is Indian/Antananarivo. No daylight saving.
Madagascarβs position in the Indian Ocean, southeast of the African continent, puts it in the same timezone neighborhood as East African mainland cities like Nairobi and Addis Ababa, though Madagascar has its own distinct political and cultural identity entirely separate from the continental mainland.
Highland rains and plateau rhythms
The highland capital has a climate quite different from the tropical coasts. Evenings are cool year-round. The rainy season runs from November to April, when afternoon thunderstorms are reliable. The dry winter months of June to August are clear and cool, sometimes cold at night.
Antsirabe, a city further south in the highlands, shares the same timezone. The two highland cities are connected by one of Madagascarβs better roads and have a shared rhythm shaped by the cool plateau climate.
9am in Antananarivo is 6am in London during European winter.
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Questions about time in Antananarivo
- What timezone is Antananarivo in?
- Antananarivo uses the IANA timezone
Indian/Antananarivo. The UTC offset is always UTC+3 - this timezone does not observe daylight saving time. - Does Antananarivo observe daylight saving time?
- No. Antananarivo does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC+3 all year round.
- What is the current UTC offset for Antananarivo?
- Antananarivo is currently at UTC+3.
- What is the time difference between Antananarivo and New York?
- Antananarivo is currently 7 hours ahead of New York.
- What is the time difference between Antananarivo and London?
- Antananarivo is currently 2 hours ahead of London.
- What is the time difference between Antananarivo and Los Angeles?
- Antananarivo is currently 10 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the time difference between Antananarivo and Tokyo?
- Antananarivo is currently 6 hours behind Tokyo.
- What is the IANA timezone name for Antananarivo?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for Antananarivo is
Indian/Antananarivo. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Indian/Antananarivo' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Indian/Antananarivo')`), or any IANA-compatible library.