Madeira, Portugal
Current time in Portugal
Time zone: WEST (UTC/GMT +01:00) — Atlantic/Madeira
What time zone is Madeira in?
Madeira keeps WEST (1 hour ahead of UTC, UTC+01:00). Its database zone is Atlantic/Madeira — worth knowing if you are scheduling anything that has to survive a daylight saving change.
Daylight saving applies here. Clocks next move back 1 hour on Sunday, 25 October 2026, putting Madeira on WET and changing its gap to every other zone listed below.
Bear in mind Portugal spans 2 zones across the 9 cities we cover — checking a second city in the same country is often necessary.
Madeira compared with major world cities
Live differences from Madeira, calculated from each zone's rules as they stand today rather than a fixed table.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Madeira is 5 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Madeira is 8 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | same time as Madeira |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Madeira is 1 hour behind |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Madeira is 3 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Madeira is 4 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Madeira is 7 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Madeira is 8 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Madeira is 9 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Madeira is 4 hours ahead |
Best time to call Madeira
Where the two working days actually meet, expressed in Madeira local time.
| London | 09:00–17:00 in Madeira | 8 hours overlap |
| Paris | 09:00–16:00 in Madeira | 7 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 09:00–14:00 in Madeira | 5 hours overlap |
| Sao Paulo | 13:00–17:00 in Madeira | 4 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with Los Angeles, Tokyo or Sydney, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
Sharing Madeira's time zone
Same zone, same time — each of these sits on Atlantic/Madeira alongside Madeira, including through any clock change.
Popular cities
| New York, United States |
| London, United Kingdom |
| Paris, France |
| Tokyo, Japan |
| Beijing, China |
| Sydney, Australia |
| Berlin, Germany |
| Moscow, Russia |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| Singapore, Singapore |
| Los Angeles, United States |
| Chicago, United States |
| Toronto, Canada |
| Mexico City, Mexico |
| São Paulo, Brazil |
| Mumbai, India |
| Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Seoul, South Korea |
| Istanbul, Turkey |
| Cairo, Egypt |
| Lagos, Nigeria |
| Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Madrid, Spain |
| Rome, Italy |