Current time in Algiers, Algeria
The current local time in Algiers is shown below. Algiers observes CET.
What's the daylight saving status?
Algiers does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- Africa/Algiers
- Standard abbreviation
- CET
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇩🇿 Algeria
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Algiers?
Algeria keeps Central European Time at UTC+1 with no daylight saving, the same offset as much of western Europe across the Mediterranean. Lying at only around 3 degrees east, well west of the meridian on which the offset is based, Algiers sees the sun reach noon close to three-quarters of an hour after the civil clock reads midday, so daylight effectively runs late through the working day. The country has held this offset steadily for decades.
What are the working hours in Algiers?
The week runs Sunday to Thursday, with Friday and Saturday the weekend, a pattern adopted to balance the Muslim Friday with the international business week. Government and the dominant hydrocarbons sector, which provides the bulk of export earnings, set the rhythm, with offices generally open from 08:00 to around 16:30. The two Eid festivals and the Mawlid are the principal religious holidays, while Revolution Day on 1 November, marking the start of the independence war, is the chief secular one. The intense summer heat shifts much commercial and social life toward the cooler evening.
Where is Algiers?
Algiers rises in tiers up the hills above a bay on the Mediterranean coast, the capital and largest city of Algeria, which by area is the largest country in Africa. The metropolitan area holds around 3 million people. The old Ottoman citadel, the Casbah, climbs the slope behind the modern French-built waterfront, and beyond the narrow coastal plain the land rises quickly to the Atlas mountains and then falls away into the Sahara.