Indexed entity
Praia is the praia-CV record in Cape Verde: country slug cabo-verde, city slug praia, ISO CV, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Atlantic/Cape_Verde.
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Live local time
Praia, Cape Verde
09:44:37 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Atlantic/Cape_Verde
Quick answer
It is currently 09:44:37 AM (CVT, UTC-01:00) in Praia, Cape Verde — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
21°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
30°C
21°C
Wed
33°C
24°C
Thu
33°C
23°C
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
CVE
Live ECB rate not available for this currency.
Conversion rates aren’t published for this currency by the ECB. The local code is shown for reference.
Today
Sunrise
06:03 AM
Sunset
07:00 PM
Day length
12h 58m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Praia, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:44 AM UTC.
Current local time
09:44:37 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CVT
Atlantic/Cape_Verde · UTC-01:00
Next holiday
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Praia right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Praia
Indexed airports
0
Curated airport references available for Cape Verde
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Praia, Cape Verde.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 09:44 GMT-1
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Praia is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC-01:00
Zone label
GMT-1
London
11:44 AM / +2h
Dubai
02:44 PM / +5h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
Assomada, 26 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:03 AM to 07:00 PM, with solar noon around 12:32 PM and total daylight of 12h 57m.
Mapped location
14.93°N, 23.51°W
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:44 AM / +2h
Good live-call window with Praia right now.
New York
06:44 AM / -3h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:44 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:44 PM / +5h
Good live-call window with Praia right now.
Singapore
06:44 PM / +9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Praia.
No curated airport is currently mapped close enough to show as a planning cue.
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Atlantic/Cape_Verde for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC-01:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC-01:00.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Praia right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest mapped context: Assomada, 26 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Atlantic/Cape_Verde. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Praia has no near-term DST change or holiday interruption in view, but future rules can still be revised by local authorities.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Praia.
Canonical route
/time/cabo-verde/praia/
Catalog identity
praia-CV · CV · Africa
Coordinate cell
14.93°N, 23.51°W · lat 14.932 · lon -23.513 · cell 1493:-2351
Population record
137,868 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Atlantic/Cape_Verde · GMT-1 · UTC-01:00
January / July offsets
UTC-01:00 / UTC-01:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Assomada, Cabo Verde · 26 km
Nearest world hub
London · 4,569 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Praia
Zone peer roster
Mindelo, Cabo Verde · Espargos, Cabo Verde · Assomada, Cabo Verde
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Praia: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Praia is the praia-CV record in Cape Verde: country slug cabo-verde, city slug praia, ISO CV, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Atlantic/Cape_Verde.
14.93°N, 23.51°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 14 and longitude band -24; exact decimal pair 14.93152, -23.51254.
Cape Verde: official name Republic of Cabo Verde; capital Praia; region Africa; subregion Western Africa; country population 491,233; area 4,033 km²; languages Portuguese; currencies CVE Cape Verdean escudo. This is the country layer behind the Praia clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Cape Verde: Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelagic country in the central Atlantic Ocean off the coast of West Africa. It consists of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about 4,033 square kilometres (1,557 sq mi). These islands lie between 600 and 850 kilometres west of Cap-Vert, the westernmost point of continental Africa, after which they are named. Cape Verde forms part of the Macaronesia ecoregion, along with the Azores, the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Savage Isles. Source: Wikipedia.
Assomada [assomada-CV, CV, Atlantic/Cape_Verde, 26 km]; Espargos [espargos-CV, CV, Atlantic/Cape_Verde, 212 km]; Mindelo [mindelo-CV, CV, Atlantic/Cape_Verde, 268 km]; Dakar [dakar-SN, SN, Africa/Dakar, 653 km]; Guédiawaye [guediawaye-SN, SN, Africa/Dakar, 657 km]; Pikine [pikine-SN, SN, Africa/Dakar, 658 km]; Sukuta [sukuta-GM, GM, Africa/Banjul, 753 km]; Bununka Kunda [bununka-kunda-GM, GM, Africa/Banjul, 755 km]
Praia is part of this indexed country cluster: Praia [praia-CV, Atlantic/Cape_Verde, pop 137,868]; Mindelo [mindelo-CV, Atlantic/Cape_Verde, pop 69,013]; Espargos [espargos-CV, Atlantic/Cape_Verde, pop 24,500]; Assomada [assomada-CV, Atlantic/Cape_Verde, pop 21,297].
London 4,569 km; São Paulo 4,963 km; New York 5,633 km; Dubai 8,201 km; Los Angeles 9,509 km; Singapore 13,947 km; Tokyo 14,115 km; Sydney 17,844 km
Praia has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Cape Verde.
Praia renders Jun 2, 2026 · 09:44 GMT-1; GMT-1 at UTC-01:00; January UTC-01:00; July UTC-01:00; next holiday not currently surfaced.
This evidence pack is what keeps smaller city pages from reading like timezone templates: concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Praia.
Praia is a context-and-reference city; rank #1 of 4 retained Cape Verde city pages. The route is /time/cabo-verde/praia/ and the city id is praia-CV.
Praia has 12 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Praia is pinned at 14.93°N, 23.51°W; Assomada (26 km); London (4,569 km).
Atlantic/Cape_Verde resolves to stable UTC-01:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Cape Verde.
Praia has no direct nearby-airport handoff · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 0 country airport references · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Praia uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Praia: Praia is the capital and largest city of Cape Verde. Located on the southern coast of Santiago island within the Sotavento Islands group, the city is the seat of the Praia Municipality. Praia is the political, economic and cultural center of Cape Verde.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (-01:00) is constant year-round.
Praia is listed in the dataset snapshot as 1 hour behind UTC (offset -01:00). 2 hours behind London, 10 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -23.51°, Praia's mean solar noon falls about 34 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Praia sits at 14.93°N, in the northern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Praia sits at 14.93°N, in the northern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Jun 17 (13h 1m)
Shortest day
Dec 20 (11h 14m)
Year-round average
12h 8m
Annual swing
1h 47m
See the full daylight curve for Praia at /sun/praia/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Praia local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Praia |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 12:00 - 20:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 07:00 - 15:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 06:00 - 14:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 04:00 - 12:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 02:30 - 10:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 00:00 - 08:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 00:00 - 08:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 23:00 - 07:00 (next day) |
Capital status
National capital of Cape Verde
Reference fields include Praia's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 09:44:37 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Praia (UTC-01:00, CVT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:03 AM to 07:00 PM
Day length 12h 57m · Solar noon 12:32 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Praia local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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161 days to go
Population
137.9K
Coordinates
14.93, -23.51
Timezone
Atlantic/Cape_Verde
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Praia
Languages
Portuguese
Currency
CVE (Esc)
Country area
4,033 km²
Praia, Cape Verde (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Atlantic/Cape_Verde (CVT, UTC-01:00); population ~137.9K.
Coordinates: 14.93°N, 23.51°W. Northern Hemisphere tropics, ~1657 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:03 AM and sets around 07:00 PM in Praia — about 12h 57m of daylight. Cape Verde stays on standard time here, so UTC-01:00 is stable through the year.
Assomada (26 km from Praia) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Cape Verde.
Praia is indexed as a Africa city in the CV country record, using Atlantic/Cape_Verde as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/cabo-verde/praia/.
Location context: 14.93°N, 23.51°W; population 137,868; nearest indexed city Assomada is about 26 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 4,569 km away.
Country planning context: capital Praia; subregion Western Africa; languages Portuguese; currency CVE (Esc); area 4,033 km²; 0 curated airport references; no upcoming holiday signal currently in view.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (-01:00) is constant year-round.
Praia is listed in the dataset snapshot as 1 hour behind UTC (offset -01:00). 2 hours behind London, 10 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -23.51°, Praia's mean solar noon falls about 34 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Praia sits at 14.93°N, in the northern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Mid-sized city with around 138 thousand residents — busy enough to keep regular international business hours, small enough to retain a regional character. (Praia city-proper figure.)
Related clock anchors for Praia: Mindelo (same time), Sydney (+11h), Tokyo (+10h), Mumbai (+6.5h), Hong Kong (+9h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
cabo-verde
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
CVT
IANA Zone
Atlantic/Cape Verde
UTC Offset
UTC-01:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
London
+2h
New York
-3h
Los Angeles
-6h
Dubai
+5h
Singapore
+9h
Tokyo
+10h
Sydney
+11h
São Paulo
-2h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Praia.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Praia: closest hubs London (~4,569 km), São Paulo (~4,963 km), New York (~5,633 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~17,844 km).
Praia sits inside Cape Verde — the Western Africa subregion, capital Praia, languages Portuguese, currency CVE (Esc).
Closest indexed cities to Praia: Assomada (26 km), Espargos (212 km), Mindelo (268 km), Dakar (653 km).
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Praia, so this page falls back to timezone and regional planning context instead of showing a broken travel panel.
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
2 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:44 AM | +2h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:44 AM | -3h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:44 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:44 PM | +5h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:44 PM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:44 PM | +10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:44 PM | +11h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:44 AM | -2h | Check the overlap widget below |
Praia is in the Atlantic/Cape_Verde timezone (CVT), with a UTC offset of -01:00.
Praia does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC-01:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Praia is UTC-01:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Praia, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 09:44 GMT-1. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Praia sits at 14.93°N, 23.51°W in Cape Verde, with about 137.9K residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Praia is London, about 4,569 km away as the crow flies.
Assomada is the closest indexed city, roughly 26 km from Praia.
Praia uses Cape Verdean escudo (CVE, symbol Esc) as the local currency of Cape Verde.
The longest day of 2026 in Praia falls on Jun 17 with about 13h 1m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 20 with 11h 14m; the year-round average is 12h 8m.
In Praia local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 12:00-20:00; London 07:00-15:00; Frankfurt 06:00-14:00; Dubai 04:00-12:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.