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Local time in Mauritania

Islamic Republic of Mauritania

Current local time in Mauritania (GMT (UTC+0)). The clock below updates live in your browser.

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Time difference — Nouakchott

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Differences are relative to Nouakchott, Mauritania, and account for daylight saving time right now.

Time zone information for Mauritania

Standard label
GMT (UTC+0)
Standard offset (Nouakchott)
UTC+0
Daylight saving time
Not observed
Number of time zones
1
Capital
Nouakchott
IANA zones
Africa/Abidjan

Mauritania uses GMT (UTC+0) 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 Mauritania.

Sunrise and sunset in Nouakchott

At 18.1° north, Nouakchott gets 13 h 13 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 11 h 03 min around the December solstice — a difference of 2 h 10 min.

On standard time the sun is highest at about 13:04 on average — 64 minutes after 12:00 — because the clocks are set ahead of local solar time, which gives long, light evenings.

Times on the 21st of each month in 2026, local clock time (Africa/Abidjan)
DateSunriseSolar noonSunsetDaylight
21 January07:3913:1618:5211 h 13 min
21 February07:2913:1919:0811 h 39 min
21 March07:0813:1219:1612 h 08 min
21 April06:4413:0319:2312 h 39 min
21 May06:3013:0119:3313 h 03 min
21 June06:3013:0619:4313 h 13 min
21 July06:3913:1119:4313 h 04 min
21 August06:4813:0819:2812 h 39 min
21 September06:5312:5819:0212 h 09 min
21 October07:0012:4918:3911 h 39 min
21 November07:1412:5118:2711 h 13 min
21 December07:3113:0318:3411 h 03 min

Calculated for Nouakchott (18.09°, -15.98°; 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 Mauritania

Mauritania does not change its clocks: it stays on GMT (UTC+0) 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.