Current time in Valencia, Spain
The current local time in Valencia is shown below. Valencia observes CET in winter and CEST during daylight saving time.
What's the daylight saving status?
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
What's the timezone history of Valencia?
Valencia keeps Central European Time alongside the rest of mainland Spain, despite sitting at a longitude near zero degrees that would more naturally place it on UK time. Spain adopted Berlin time in 1940 under Franco and has never reverted. The mismatch leaves wall time around 75 minutes ahead of solar noon in Valencia. The EU DST schedule applies. Recent Spanish governments have periodically discussed returning to GMT without acting on the proposal.
What are the working hours in Valencia?
Manufacturing, agriculture (citrus and rice), and the Port of Valencia dominate employment. The traditional Spanish split working day persists in older businesses, with offices running 09:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 20:00 broken by an extended lunch. Newer multinationals at the technology park follow a continuous 09:00 to 18:00. Las Fallas in mid-March, when satirical effigies are burned across the city, closes most non-essential business for a full week. August holidays are taken intensively, leaving the city noticeably quieter through that month.
Where is Valencia?
Valencia sits on Spain's Mediterranean coast where the Turia River formerly emptied into the sea, around 350 kilometres south-east of Madrid and 350 south-west of Barcelona. The city proper holds around 800,000 residents and the wider metropolitan area roughly 1.6 million, the third largest in Spain. The historic Turia riverbed, diverted south after the 1957 flood, has been converted into a 9-kilometre linear park running through the city. The Albufera lagoon, the largest natural lake in Spain, lies just south of the city limits.