Indexed entity
Laayoune is the laayoune-EH record in Western Sahara: country slug western-sahara, city slug laayoune, ISO EH, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/El_Aaiun.
Weekly digest
Pick the categories you care about: movies, AI launches, sports, eclipses, and major public dates. One email per week, and never anything you did not ask for.
Want full preferences? Customize your digest →
Live local time
Laayoune, Western Sahara
11:47:32 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/El_Aaiun
Quick answer
It is currently 11:47:32 AM (WEST, UTC+01:00) in Laayoune, Western Sahara — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
20°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
39°C
19°C
Wed
36°C
20°C
Thu
31°C
18°C
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
MAD
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
06:58 AM
Sunset
08:43 PM
Day length
13h 45m
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 Laayoune, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:47 AM UTC.
Current local time
11:47:32 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
WEST
Africa/El_Aaiun · 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 Laayoune right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Laayoune
Indexed airports
0
Curated airport references available for Western Sahara
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Laayoune, Western Sahara.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 11:47 GMT+1
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Laayoune 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
11:47 AM / +0h
Dubai
02:47 PM / +3h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
Boujdour, 171 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:58 AM to 08:43 PM, with solar noon around 01:51 PM and total daylight of 13h 45m.
Mapped location
27.14°N, 13.19°W
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:47 AM / +0h
Good live-call window with Laayoune right now.
New York
06:47 AM / -5h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:47 AM / -8h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:47 PM / +3h
Good live-call window with Laayoune right now.
Singapore
06:47 PM / +7h
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 Laayoune.
No curated airport is currently mapped close enough to show as a planning cue.
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/El_Aaiun for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+01:00; seasonal offset, UTC+01:00 in January and UTC+01:00 in July.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Laayoune right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest mapped context: Boujdour, 171 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
Next detected clock change: February 7, 2027, moving back from 2027-02-07 02:59 (GMT+1) to 2027-02-07 02:00 (GMT+0).
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Laayoune has a detected clock-change edge. Re-check recurring meetings within two weeks of February 7, 2027, especially if the other city does not change clocks on the same weekend.
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 Laayoune.
Canonical route
/time/western-sahara/laayoune/
Catalog identity
laayoune-EH · EH · Africa
Coordinate cell
27.14°N, 13.19°W · lat 27.142 · lon -13.188 · cell 2714:-1319
Population record
196,331 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Africa/El_Aaiun · GMT+1 · UTC+01:00
January / July offsets
UTC+01:00 / UTC+01:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Boujdour, Western Sahara · 171 km
Nearest world hub
London · 2,923 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Laayoune
Zone peer roster
Dakhla, Western Sahara · Boujdour, Western Sahara
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Laayoune: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Laayoune is the laayoune-EH record in Western Sahara: country slug western-sahara, city slug laayoune, ISO EH, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/El_Aaiun.
27.14°N, 13.19°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 27 and longitude band -14; exact decimal pair 27.14180, -13.18797.
Western Sahara: official name Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic; capital El Aaiún; region Africa; subregion Northern Africa; country population 600,904; area 266,000 km²; languages Berber, Hassaniya, Spanish; currencies DZD Algerian dinar, MAD Moroccan dirham, MRU Mauritanian ouguiya. This is the country layer behind the Laayoune clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Western Sahara: Western Sahara is a United Nations–recognized non-self-governing territory in north-western Africa. It has a surface area of 272,000 square kilometres (105,000 sq mi). Western Sahara is the last African colonial state yet to achieve independence and has been dubbed "Africa's last colony". With an estimated population of around 600,000 inhabitants, it is the most sparsely populated territory in Africa and the second most sparsely populated territory in the world after Greenland, consisting mainly of desert flatlands. Source: Wikipedia.
Boujdour [boujdour-EH, EH, Africa/El_Aaiun, 171 km]; Telde [telde-ES, ES, Atlantic/Canary, 239 km]; Las Palmas de Gran Canaria [las-palmas-de-gran-canaria-ES, ES, Atlantic/Canary, 244 km]; Santa Cruz de Tenerife [santa-cruz-de-tenerife-ES, ES, Atlantic/Canary, 336 km]; La Laguna [la-laguna-ES, ES, Atlantic/Canary, 342 km]; Dakhla [dakhla-EH, EH, Africa/El_Aaiun, 474 km]; Nouadhibou [nouadhibou-MR, MR, Africa/Nouakchott, 792 km]; Casablanca [casablanca-MA, MA, Africa/Casablanca, 894 km]
Laayoune is part of this indexed country cluster: Laayoune [laayoune-EH, Africa/El_Aaiun, pop 196,331]; Dakhla [dakhla-EH, Africa/El_Aaiun, pop 106,277]; Boujdour [boujdour-EH, Africa/El_Aaiun, pop 42,651].
London 2,923 km; New York 5,694 km; São Paulo 6,683 km; Dubai 6,746 km; Los Angeles 9,600 km; Tokyo 12,471 km; Singapore 12,582 km; Sydney 18,346 km
Laayoune has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Western Sahara.
Laayoune renders Jun 2, 2026 · 11:47 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 Laayoune.
Laayoune is a context-and-reference city; rank #1 of 3 retained Western Sahara city pages. The route is /time/western-sahara/laayoune/ and the city id is laayoune-EH.
Laayoune 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.
Laayoune is pinned at 27.14°N, 13.19°W; Boujdour (171 km); London (2,923 km).
Africa/El_Aaiun resolves to stable UTC+01:00 offset across January and July. 2 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Western Sahara.
Laayoune 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.
Laayoune 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.
Laayoune: Laayoune or El Aaiún is the largest city of the disputed territory of Western Sahara, with a population of 271,344 in 2023. The city is the de jure capital of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, though it is under de facto Moroccan administration as occupied territory. The modern city is thought to have been founded by the Spanish captain Antonio de Oro in 1938. From 1958, it became the administrative capital of the Spanish Sahara, administered by the Governor General of Spanish West Africa.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+01:00) is constant year-round.
Laayoune is listed in the dataset snapshot as 1 hour ahead of UTC (offset +01:00). On the same clock as London, 8 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -13.19°, Laayoune's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 53 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.
Laayoune sits at 27.14°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 13 hours 43 minutes on the June solstice and about 10 hours 17 minutes on the December solstice.
Laayoune sits at 27.14°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 13 hours 43 minutes on the June solstice and about 10 hours 17 minutes on the December solstice.
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 15 (13h 51m)
Shortest day
Dec 15 (10h 26m)
Year-round average
12h 10m
Annual swing
3h 25m
See the full daylight curve for Laayoune at /sun/laayoune/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Laayoune local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Laayoune |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 14:00 - 22:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 06:00 - 14:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 04:30 - 12:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 02:00 - 10:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 02:00 - 10:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 01:00 - 09:00 |
Reference fields include Laayoune's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 11:47:32 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Laayoune (UTC+01:00, WEST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:58 AM to 08:43 PM
Day length 13h 45m · Solar noon 01:51 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Laayoune local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Xbox Games Showcase 2026
keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
Code with Claude Tokyo 2026
keynoteWednesday, June 10, 2026
8 days to go
ICML 2026
keynoteMonday, July 6, 2026
34 days to go
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
keynoteSunday, December 6, 2026
187 days to go
Population
196.3K
Coordinates
27.14, -13.19
Timezone
Africa/El_Aaiun
Indexed airports
0
Capital
El Aaiún
Languages
Berber, Hassaniya
Currency
DZD (دج), MAD (DH), MRU (UM)
Country area
266,000 km²
Laayoune, Western Sahara (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/El_Aaiun (WEST, UTC+01:00); population ~196.3K.
Coordinates: 27.14°N, 13.19°W. Northern Hemisphere subtropics, ~3013 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:58 AM and sets around 08:43 PM in Laayoune — about 13h 45m of daylight. Western Sahara observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
Boujdour (171 km from Laayoune) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Western Sahara.
Laayoune is indexed as a Africa city in the EH country record, using Africa/El_Aaiun as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/western-sahara/laayoune/.
Location context: 27.14°N, 13.19°W; population 196,331; nearest indexed city Boujdour is about 171 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 2,923 km away.
Country planning context: capital El Aaiún; subregion Northern Africa; languages Berber, Hassaniya, Spanish; currency DZD (دج), MAD (DH), MRU (UM); area 266,000 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.
Laayoune is listed in the dataset snapshot as 1 hour ahead of UTC (offset +01:00). On the same clock as London, 8 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -13.19°, Laayoune's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 53 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.
Laayoune sits at 27.14°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 13 hours 43 minutes on the June solstice and about 10 hours 17 minutes on the December solstice.
Mid-sized city with around 196 thousand residents — busy enough to keep regular international business hours, small enough to retain a regional character. (Laayoune city-proper figure.)
Related clock anchors for Laayoune: Dakhla (same time), Sydney (+9h), Tokyo (+8h), Dubai (+3h), Hong Kong (+7h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
western-sahara
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
WEST
IANA Zone
Africa/El Aaiun
UTC Offset
UTC+01:00
DST Status
Observing DST
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
London
+0h
New York
-5h
Los Angeles
-8h
Dubai
+3h
Singapore
+7h
Tokyo
+8h
Sydney
+9h
São Paulo
-4h
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 Laayoune.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Laayoune: closest hubs London (~2,923 km), New York (~5,694 km), São Paulo (~6,683 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~18,346 km).
Laayoune sits inside Western Sahara — the Northern Africa subregion, capital El Aaiún, languages Berber, Hassaniya, Spanish, currency DZD (دج), MAD (DH), MRU (UM).
Closest indexed cities to Laayoune: Boujdour (171 km), Telde (239 km), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (244 km), Santa Cruz de Tenerife (336 km).
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Laayoune, 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 | 11:47 AM | +0h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:47 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:47 AM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:47 PM | +3h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:47 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:47 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:47 PM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:47 AM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
Boujdour
Western Sahara
Approx. 171 km away
Telde
Spain
Approx. 239 km away
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Spain
Approx. 244 km away
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Spain
Approx. 336 km away
La Laguna
Spain
Approx. 342 km away
Dakhla
Western Sahara
Approx. 474 km away
Nouadhibou
Mauritania
Approx. 792 km away
Casablanca
Morocco
Approx. 894 km away
Laayoune is in the Africa/El_Aaiun timezone (WEST), with a UTC offset of +01:00.
Laayoune uses seasonal daylight saving rules in Africa/El_Aaiun. The current offset is UTC+01:00; January resolves to UTC+01:00 and July resolves to UTC+01:00.
The current UTC offset for Laayoune is UTC+01:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Laayoune, 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 · 11:47 GMT+1. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Laayoune sits at 27.14°N, 13.19°W in Western Sahara, with about 196.3K residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Laayoune is London, about 2,923 km away as the crow flies.
Boujdour is the closest indexed city, roughly 171 km from Laayoune.
Laayoune uses Algerian dinar (DZD, symbol دج) as the local currency of Western Sahara.
The longest day of 2026 in Laayoune falls on Jun 15 with about 13h 51m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 15 with 10h 26m; the year-round average is 12h 10m.
In Laayoune local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 14:00-22:00; London 09:00-17:00; Frankfurt 08:00-16:00; Dubai 06:00-14:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.