Current time in Azores, Portugal
The current local time in Azores is shown below. Azores observes AZOT in winter and GMT during daylight saving time.
What's the daylight saving status?
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- Atlantic/Azores
- Standard abbreviation
- AZOT
- DST abbreviation
- GMT
- Observes daylight saving
- Yes
- Country
- 🇵🇹 Portugal
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Azores?
The Azores keep UTC-1 in winter and shift to UTC+0 over the summer with daylight saving, the only inhabited territory in the world that uses an offset of minus one hour. This places the islands an hour behind mainland Portugal, which sits on Western European Time, so a call from Lisbon to the Azores reaches a clock an hour earlier. Their mid-Atlantic position, far to the west of Europe, makes the offset a fair match for the islands' true solar time.
What are the working hours in Azores?
Farming, especially dairy, fishing, and a fast-growing tourism sector anchor the economy of an autonomous region of Portugal that runs many of its own affairs. The working day follows the Portuguese pattern of roughly 09:00 to 18:00 around a midday break. The hour behind the mainland is a standing consideration for the regional government and for businesses dealing with Lisbon, and the long Atlantic distances shape inter-island travel by ferry and plane. The main closures follow the Portuguese national and Catholic calendar, alongside the islands' own Holy Spirit festivals through the summer.
Where is Azores?
The Azores are a Portuguese archipelago of nine volcanic islands in the middle of the North Atlantic, scattered across several hundred kilometres of ocean roughly a third of the way from Portugal to North America. Together they hold around 240,000 people, the largest town being Ponta Delgada on the main island of São Miguel. Green, mild, and often misty, the islands rise steeply from the sea, their economy long built on dairy farming, fishing, and, increasingly, tourism drawn to the dramatic crater lakes and coasts.