| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −1h | |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | ±0h | |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +2h | Becomes +3h on 25 Oct |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +7h | Becomes +8h on 25 Oct |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +8h | Becomes +9h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −6h | Becomes −5h on 24 Oct |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −9h | Becomes −8h on 24 Oct |
Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina 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. The time difference between Banja Luka and New York is 6 hours. 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 Banja Luka lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Banja Luka and London is 1 hour. 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 Banja Luka lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Banja Luka and Tokyo is 7 hours. 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 Banja Luka 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 Banja Luka.
Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina) is home to roughly 185K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:47, sunset at 18:34. 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
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Capital
Sarajevo
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Sarajevo
Coordinates
44.77°N, 17.19°E
Currency
BAM (KM)
Calling Code
+387
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Ferhat Pasha Mosque, built in 1579, was destroyed in 1993. Reconstruction recovered thousands of original stone fragments from a rubbish dump and a river, and the rebuilt mosque reopened in 2016.
The clock: Banja Luka keeps UTC+1. It is known for its greenery — roughly a third of the city's area is parkland or forest.
Banja Luka lies at 17.2°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 2.2° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 9 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:51 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 51 minutes and pushing solar noon to 12:51.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 35m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 48m. The swing between them is 6h 48m. This is the latitude band where the difference between summer and winter evenings is most obvious.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Banja Luka the sun comes up earliest on 16 June at 05:04, while the latest sunset waits until 28 June at 20:41. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Banja Luka that civil twilight runs about 29 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 37 minutes at the solstice.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina is Europe/Sarajevo with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Banja Luka has an estimated population of 185K and is located at coordinates 44.77°N, 17.19°E.
Banja Luka gets 15h 35m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 48m on its shortest, averaging 12h 14m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Banja Luka falls at about 11:51 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 2.2° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Mosque Rebuilt From Its Own Fragments: The Ferhat Pasha Mosque, built in 1579, was destroyed in 1993. Reconstruction recovered thousands of original stone fragments from a rubbish dump and a river, and the rebuilt mosque reopened in 2016.