Venice
UTC+2Italy · CEST
Sun, 9 Aug 2026
Timezone Guide
Venice, Italy runs on UTC+2. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+1 in winter, UTC+2 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. There is a 6-hour difference between Venice and New York. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 15:00–18:00 in Venice lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. There is a 1-hour difference between Venice and London. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 8 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 10:00–18:00 in Venice lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. There is a 7-hour difference between Venice and Tokyo. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–11:00 in Venice lines up with 16:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Venice.
Practical Info
Venice (Italy) is home to roughly 260K people. Today brings about 15.5 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:24, sunset at 20:54. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+1 in winter, UTC+2 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 45° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Italy
Capital
Rome
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
CEST · Europe/Rome
Coordinates
45.44°N, 12.32°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+39
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Italian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Venice Ignored the Gregorian Calendar for 215 Years
Pope Gregory XIII reformed the calendar in 1582. Venice knew about it. Venice did not adopt it.
The Republic used its own reckoning, marked M.V. — more veneto, "according to the customs of Venice" — in which, following the ancient Roman practice, the year began on 1 March.
The consequence is that January and February always belonged to the previous year in Venetian documents. February 1700 in the rest of Europe was February 1699 more veneto. A letter dated 26 January 1421 elsewhere is dated 26 January 1420 in Venice.
The Republic could do this because it did not need permission. Venice's institutional line ran from the Roman Empire through Byzantium — a provincial administration that had become sovereign — and it did not depend on the Roman church for its legitimacy. So when Rome changed the calendar, Venice simply carried on.
It carried on for 215 years, until the Republic itself fell in 1797. Britain, by comparison, held out for 170.
The clock: and the number that governs Venice today is also a matter of when you count.
The historic centre had 174,808 residents in 1951. By 1975 it was 104,000. By 1995, 71,000. By 2015, 55,000. In 2025 it was 47,625 — a fall of more than 70% in seventy years, and more than 120,000 people gone from the six sestieri and Giudecca.
In 1960, for the first time since the city's founding in the seventh century, the mainland became more populous than the islands.
Against that: Venice has the second-highest ratio of tourists to inhabitants in Europe. In 2025 the city charged day-trippers an entry fee on 54 peak days, and more than 720,000 people paid it, raising €5.4 million.
Seven hundred and twenty thousand paying visitors, across fifty-four days, in a place where fewer than forty-eight thousand people live. Fifteen residents' worth of day-trippers for every resident — and that only counts the ones who paid.
A city that spent two centuries insisting January belonged to last year now has a population that depends entirely on which day you ask.
Sources
- Wikipedia, *More veneto* (M.V. işareti; yılın 1 Mart'ta başlaması; Gregoryen takvimin 1582'de bilinmesine rağmen hiç resmî kullanıma girmemesi; 1797'ye kadar sürmesi; Şubat 1700 = Şubat 1699 M.V. örneği)
- History Walks in Venice (Venedik devletinin Roma-Bizans soyu ve Roma kilisesine bağlı olmaması; 26 Ocak 1421 = 26 Ocak 1420 M.V. örneği)
- Statista (1951'de 174.800 zirve; 2025'te 47.625; 1960'ta anakaranın adaları geçmesi; turizmin 1,67 milyar euro katkısı; 1.260'tan fazla otel)
- InTrieste / Venessia.com (1975'te 104.000, 1995'te 71.000, 2015'te 55.000; 2025'te 54 yoğun günde 720.000'den fazla ödeme, 5,4 milyon euro)
- Sage Journals (1951'den 2022'ye %72 düşüş)
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
7h overlap