Local time in Libya
State of Libya
Current local time in Libya (EET (UTC+2)). The clock below updates live in your browser.
Time difference — Tripoli
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Differences are relative to Tripoli, Libya, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Libya
- Standard label
- EET (UTC+2)
- Standard offset (Tripoli)
- UTC+2
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- Tripoli
- IANA zones
- Africa/Tripoli
Libya uses EET (UTC+2) as its standard time. Clocks stay on the same offset all year round — daylight saving time is not observed. Times on this page are computed in your browser from the IANA time zone database, so they always match the real current time in Libya.
Sunrise and sunset in Tripoli
At 32.9° north, Tripoli gets 14 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 9 h 59 min around the December solstice — a difference of 4 h 21 min.
On standard time the sun is highest at about 13:07 on average — 67 minutes after 12:00 — because the clocks are set ahead of local solar time, which gives long, light evenings.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 08:09 | 13:19 | 18:29 | 10 h 20 min |
| 21 February | 07:46 | 13:22 | 18:58 | 11 h 12 min |
| 21 March | 07:11 | 13:15 | 19:20 | 12 h 09 min |
| 21 April | 06:31 | 13:07 | 19:42 | 13 h 10 min |
| 21 May | 06:06 | 13:05 | 20:04 | 13 h 59 min |
| 21 June | 06:00 | 13:10 | 20:19 | 14 h 19 min |
| 21 July | 06:14 | 13:14 | 20:15 | 14 h 01 min |
| 21 August | 06:35 | 13:11 | 19:48 | 13 h 12 min |
| 21 September | 06:55 | 13:01 | 19:07 | 12 h 12 min |
| 21 October | 07:16 | 12:53 | 18:29 | 11 h 12 min |
| 21 November | 07:44 | 12:54 | 18:04 | 10 h 21 min |
| 21 December | 08:07 | 13:06 | 18:05 | 9 h 59 min |
Calculated for Tripoli (32.89°, 13.19°; coordinates from Wikidata) with the standard solar-position formulas used by NOAA, for a sea-level horizon. Results are accurate to about a minute; hills, buildings and altitude shift what you actually see. Times change by only a minute or two from year to year.
Daylight saving time in Libya
Libya does not change its clocks: it stays on EET (UTC+2) all year in 2026 and 2027.
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.