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The Current Local Date and Time in Carthage, Tunisia (TN)

Time Zone Africa/Tunis

15:58:39

Local Time Date and Timezone

Where is Carthage? (Tunisia, TN)

Carthage is a city located in Tunisia (TN).
Latitude 36.86108 Longitude 10.33161

Carthage location on the Tunisia (TN) map

Information about Carthage

City: Carthage
Country: Tunisia (TN)
Latitude: 36.86108
Longitude: 10.33161
Time Zone: Africa/Tunis

Time zone and UTC offset ofCarthage

Carthage, Tunisia is in the Africa/Tunis time zone, which is currently UTC+1. Daylight saving time is not observed in this time zone, so the offset stays the same all year.

Current time difference with other cities

Carthage has the same time as London
Carthage is 5 hours ahead of New York
Carthage is 8 hours ahead of Los Angeles
Carthage is 3 hours behind Dubai
Carthage is 8 hours behind Tokyo
Carthage is 10 hours behind Sydney

Frequently asked questions about time inCarthage

What time zone is Carthage in?

Carthage, Tunisia is in the Africa/Tunis time zone (currently UTC+1).

Does Carthage observe daylight saving time?

No, the clocks do not change during the year in this time zone.

What is the time difference between Carthage and New York?

Carthage is 5 hours ahead of New York (the difference can change when either place switches to or from daylight saving time).

What are the coordinates of Carthage?

Carthage is located at latitude 36.86108 and longitude 10.33161.

Sunrise, sunset and moon phase inCarthage today

Astronomical data for October 16, 2026 in Carthage, calculated for the Africa/Tunis time zone. All times are local.

Sun

Sunrise: 06:27
Solar noon: 12:04
Sunset: 17:41
Length of day: 11 h 14 min

Moon

Moon phase: Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 31%
Moon age: about 5.6 days
Moonrise: 12:08
Moonset: 21:21

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City of Carthage

Carthage (Arabic: قرطاج, ) was an ancient city in northern Africa founded by the legendary Phoenician queen Dido on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the classical world. It became the capital city of the civilization of Ancient Carthage and later Roman Carthage. The city developed from a Phoenician colony into the capital of a Punic empire which dominated large parts of the Southwest Mediterranean during the first millennium BC. The legendary Queen Elissa/Alyssa or Dido, originally from Tyre, is regarded as the founder of the city, though her historicity has been questioned. In the myth, Dido asked for land from a local tribe, which told her that she could get as much land as an oxhide could cover. She cut the oxhide into strips and laid out the perimeter of the new city. As Carthage prospered at home, the polity sent colonists abroad as well as magistrates to rule the colonies. The ancient city was destroyed in a nearly three year siege by the Roman Republic during the Third Punic War in 146 BC. It was re-developed a century later becoming the major city of the Romans' Africa province. The question of Carthaginian decline and demise has remained a subject of literary, political, artistic, and philosophical debates in both ancient and modern histories. Late antique and medieval Carthage continued to play an important cultural and economic role in the Byzantine period. The city was sacked and destroyed by Umayyad forces in 698 to prevent a Byzantine reconquest. It remained occupied during the Muslim period as a fort until the 1200s when it was taken from the Hafsids by the Crusaders with its inhabitants massacred during the Eighth Crusade. The Hafsids decided to destroy its defenses so it could not be used as a base by a hostile power again. It also continued to function as an episcopal see. The regional power shifted to Kairouan and the Medina of Tunis in the medieval period, until the early 20th century, when it began to develop into a coastal suburb of Tunis, incorporated as Carthage municipality in 1919. The archaeological site was first surveyed in 1830, by Danish consul Christian Tuxen Falbe. Excavations were performed in the second half of the 19th century by Charles Ernest Beulé and by Alfred Louis Delattre. The Carthage National Museum was founded in 1875 by Cardinal Charles Lavigerie. Excavations performed by French archaeologists in the 1920s first attracted attention because of the evidence they produced for child sacrifice. There has been considerable disagreement among scholars concerning whether child sacrifice was practiced by ancient Carthage. The open-air Carthage Paleo-Christian Museum has exhibits excavated under the auspices of UNESCO from 1975 to 1984. The site of the ruins is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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