2025 time change dates for Morocco
Morocco does not observe Daylight Saving Time
Morocco does not use seasonal Daylight Saving Time. It stays on UTC+1 permanently, but sets clocks back one hour for the month of Ramadan and forward again afterwards, so the two annual changes move earlier each year with the lunar calendar.
Morocco stays on CET for the whole year.
Countdown to the next change
Technology and Time Changes in 2025
Phones, computers and anything else that syncs with an internet time server handle the transition on their own. What still catches people out in Morocco is the long tail of devices that don't: car dashboards, ovens and microwaves, wall clocks, older thermostats, and cheap alarm clocks with a DST setting hard-coded to a schedule that has since changed.
For anyone running servers, the transitions are a recurring source of bugs — duplicated or missing local timestamps around the changeover, cron jobs that fire twice or not at all, and stale operating system timezone databases. Storing timestamps in UTC and keeping the tzdata package current avoids almost all of it.
Background
- Russia experimented with permanent summer time from 2011 to 2014 before settling on permanent standard time.
- Benjamin Franklin is often credited with inventing DST, but his 1784 essay was satire — he joked that Parisians could save candles by waking earlier. The modern proposal came from New Zealander George Hudson in 1895 and Briton William Willett in 1907.
- The Energy Policy Act of 2005 extended US DST by four weeks starting in 2007, moving the start to the second Sunday in March and the end to the first Sunday in November.
Tips for Morocco
Be extra cautious driving the Monday after the spring time change - accident rates increase.
Take advantage of the 'extra' hour in fall to catch up on sleep or tackle a project.
Update your car clock, microwave, and other manual clocks that don't auto-update.
Check and replace smoke detector batteries when changing clocks - it's a good reminder!
Frequently asked questions
When do the clocks change in Morocco in 2025?
They do not. Morocco does not observe Daylight Saving Time.
Which way do the clocks go?
"Spring forward, fall back" is the usual mnemonic: forward one hour in spring, back one hour in autumn.
Do I have to change anything myself?
Phones, computers and anything that syncs over the internet update on their own. Car clocks, ovens, microwaves and older wall clocks generally do not.
Is Daylight Saving Time being scrapped?
It has been proposed in many places and adopted in few. The European Parliament voted in 2019 to end mandatory clock changes and the change has stalled; in the United States the Sunshine Protection Act has repeatedly passed the Senate without becoming law. Most of the world that changes its clocks is still changing them.