Huidige Tijd in Madrid, Spanje — CEST.

Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain. It had a population of over 3.4 million in the city proper in 2025, and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.8 million. Madrid is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), after Berlin, and its metropolitan area is the second-largest in the EU, after Paris. The municipality covers an area of 605.77 km2 (233.89 sq mi). Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula at about 660 m (2,170 ft) above mean sea level. The capital city of both Spain and the surrounding autonomous community of Madrid, it is the political, economic and cultural centre of the country.

From Madrid the nearest of our reference hubs are London (~1,263 km), Dubai (~5,656 km), New York (~5,768 km), while Sydney sits about 17,685 km away — useful framing when someone needs a feel for whether a meeting is a regional hop or an intercontinental call.

Madrid sits inside Spanje — the Southern Europe subregion, capital Madrid, languages Spanish, Catalan, Basque, currency EUR (€).

Madrid Centro (0 km), Embajadores (1 km), Justicia (1 km), Lavapiés (1 km) are the nearest cities WorldClockTools indexes around Madrid — that's the cluster to use when scheduling spills past the city limits.

Upcoming country holiday signals around Madrid: Labour Day, Day of Madrid, Galician Literature Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Spanje.

Closest curated airport references from Madrid: MAD Madrid (14 km), ZAZ Zaragoza (263 km), VLC Valencia (293 km).

In 2025, A car ramming attack at a Lapu-Lapu Day festival kills 11 people and injures at least 30 in Vancouver, Canada.