Timezone and DST in Morocco

The Ramadan Time in Morocco

Morocco has a very special time zone: Ramadan time. Normally, the clocks are set forward one hour for daylight saving time, so that it is light longer in the evening. Here, however, it is the other way around and, moreover, daylight saving time is also only about a month short. Only during Ramadan are clocks turned back one hour to artificially shorten the day. During the fasting time one should fast during the day - thus until sunset. So with this special time, you shorten the daily fast because it gets dark earlier in the evening.

Only 1 nationwide time zone

Standard time:	UTC +0	Western European Time (WET)
Daylight saving time:	UTC +1	Ramadan time

Morocco has an east-west extension of 11.7 degrees of longitude. Given the country's location in Northern Africa, this corresponds to about 1100 kilometers. With this still relatively small extension, the course of the sun is only slightly different at various positions in the country. The position of the sun in the west of the country differs from that in the east by only about 47 minutes. This means the sun rises and sets 47 minutes later in the west than in the east.

The next clock changes in Morocco