Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain · UTC+1
Convert time from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the co-capital of the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago sitting in the Atlantic some 1,700 kilometers from Madrid and only 100 kilometers from the northwest African coast. Geographically, the islands belong to the same longitude as the United Kingdom and Portugal. Their timezone reflects this: Western European Time (UTC+0 in winter, UTC+1 in summer), one hour behind mainland Spain.
This creates the unusual situation of a Spanish city that is legally in Spain but operating on a different clock than the country’s mainland. The practical consequence is that a Canary Islands business call at 10am local time reaches Madrid at 11am. Spaniards traveling from the peninsula need to set their watches back on arrival.
mild climate and year-round daylight
The Canary Islands sit at about 28 degrees north, well south of mainland Europe. This means long summer evenings do not come in the same dramatic form as in northern Spain. The sun sets by around 9:30pm in June rather than past 10pm. The year-round mild climate makes daylight shifting less significant anyway: the temperature rarely drives indoor retreat in the way that winter cold does in Madrid or Barcelona.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria across the archipelago shares the same Atlantic/Canary timezone.
9am in Santa Cruz de Tenerife is 9am in London in winter. Both are on UTC+0. In summer, both shift to UTC+1 simultaneously, so the offset stays the same year-round.
Sources
Read more about time in Spain →Same time as Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Compare Santa Cruz de Tenerife with
Questions about time in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
- What timezone is Santa Cruz de Tenerife in?
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife is in Western European Time (WET), using the IANA timezone
Atlantic/Canary. The standard UTC offset is UTC+0 in winter. During daylight saving time (summer), it becomes Western European Summer Time (WEST) at UTC+1. - Does Santa Cruz de Tenerife observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. Santa Cruz de Tenerife observes daylight saving time. In 2026, clocks spring forward one hour on Sunday, March 29 and fall back one hour on Sunday, October 25. During DST, the UTC offset shifts from UTC+0 to UTC+1.
- What is the current UTC offset for Santa Cruz de Tenerife?
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife is currently at UTC+1. It is currently observing daylight saving time.
- What is the time difference between Santa Cruz de Tenerife and New York?
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife is currently 5 hours ahead of New York.
- What is the time difference between Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Los Angeles?
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife is currently 8 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the time difference between Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Tokyo?
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife is currently 8 hours behind Tokyo. Tokyo does not observe daylight saving time, so this gap changes by 1 hour when Santa Cruz de Tenerife transitions to/from DST.
- What is the IANA timezone name for Santa Cruz de Tenerife?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for Santa Cruz de Tenerife is
Atlantic/Canary. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Atlantic/Canary' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Atlantic/Canary')`), or any IANA-compatible library.