Madrid to New York: time difference and meeting times
Everything you need to schedule between Madrid and New York — the current offset, both cities' daylight saving dates, and the hour-by-hour overlap of their working days.
3 hours of full overlap. Both cities are inside normal working hours (09:00–17:59 local) at 13:00–16:00 UTC. Any hour in that range works for both sides without anyone starting early or finishing late.
Hour by hour
| UTC | Madrid | Status | New York | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 02:00 | Asleep | 20:00 prev day | Evening |
| 01:00 | 03:00 | Asleep | 21:00 prev day | Late night |
| 02:00 | 04:00 | Asleep | 22:00 prev day | Late night |
| 03:00 | 05:00 | Asleep | 23:00 prev day | Late night |
| 04:00 | 06:00 | Early morning | 00:00 | Asleep |
| 05:00 | 07:00 | Early morning | 01:00 | Asleep |
| 06:00 | 08:00 | Early morning | 02:00 | Asleep |
| 07:00 | 09:00 | Working hours | 03:00 | Asleep |
| 08:00 | 10:00 | Working hours | 04:00 | Asleep |
| 09:00 | 11:00 | Working hours | 05:00 | Asleep |
| 10:00 | 12:00 | Working hours | 06:00 | Early morning |
| 11:00 | 13:00 | Working hours | 07:00 | Early morning |
| 12:00 | 14:00 | Working hours | 08:00 | Early morning |
| 13:00 | 15:00 | Working hours | 09:00 | Working hours |
| 14:00 | 16:00 | Working hours | 10:00 | Working hours |
| 15:00 | 17:00 | Working hours | 11:00 | Working hours |
| 16:00 | 18:00 | Evening | 12:00 | Working hours |
| 17:00 | 19:00 | Evening | 13:00 | Working hours |
| 18:00 | 20:00 | Evening | 14:00 | Working hours |
| 19:00 | 21:00 | Late night | 15:00 | Working hours |
| 20:00 | 22:00 | Late night | 16:00 | Working hours |
| 21:00 | 23:00 | Late night | 17:00 | Working hours |
| 22:00 | 00:00 next day | Asleep | 18:00 | Evening |
| 23:00 | 01:00 next day | Asleep | 19:00 | Evening |
Green rows are hours when both cities are inside core working hours (09:00–17:59 local). Amber rows are hours when both are awake but at least one is in the early morning or evening. Times shown are for 27 August 2026; the pattern shifts when either city changes its clocks.
Quick conversions
| When it is… | …it is |
|---|---|
| 09:00 in Madrid | 03:00 in New York |
| 12:00 in Madrid | 06:00 in New York |
| 15:00 in Madrid | 09:00 in New York |
| 17:00 in Madrid | 11:00 in New York |
Daylight saving
Madrid next moves its clocks back on 25 October 2026, to UTC+1. New York next moves its clocks back on 1 November 2026, to UTC−5.
Both sides change clocks, but not on the same dates
Both cities observe daylight saving, so the offset between them is stable for most of the year. It is not stable during the weeks when one has changed and the other has not — check the transition dates above before scheduling anything in those windows.
Scheduling across this corridor
The transatlantic corridor is the most forgiving of the long-haul pairings, and the only one where a genuine shared working day exists. The window is real but narrow: it opens when the US East Coast starts work and closes when Europe goes home, which in practice means the early afternoon in Europe and the morning in New York. The complication is not the offset itself — it is that the two regions change their clocks on different dates, so the gap silently widens or narrows for a couple of weeks each spring and autumn.
About Madrid
Madrid sits on Central European Time despite being geographically west of London, a legacy of a 1940 decision never reversed. The result is that solar noon falls unusually late and Spanish working hours are shifted accordingly, with a long midday break and a working day that extends well into the evening. Late-afternoon calls that would be unwelcome in Berlin are routine here.
About New York
New York is the reference clock for North American business scheduling — when a US company says "9am ET" without qualification, this is the zone they mean. It observes daylight saving from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, which is three weeks longer than the European season and the source of the annual transatlantic confusion. The working day starts early by European standards and calls before 9am local are common.
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Intl API and were last generated on 27 August 2026. See how we calculate these figures.