| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | ±0h | |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | +1h | |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +3h | Becomes +4h on 25 Oct |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +8h | Becomes +9h on 25 Oct |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +9h | Becomes +10h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −5h | Becomes −4h on 24 Oct |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −8h | Becomes −7h on 24 Oct |
Belfast, United Kingdom runs on UTC+1. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+0 in winter, UTC+1 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. The time difference between Belfast and New York is 5 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 4 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 14:00–18:00 in Belfast lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Belfast and London currently share the same clock. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 9 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–18:00 in Belfast lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Belfast and Tokyo is 8 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hour a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–10:00 in Belfast lines up with 17:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Lisbon, Dublin, Edinburgh. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Belfast.
Belfast (United Kingdom) is home to roughly 345K people. Today brings about 11.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:24, sunset at 19:03. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+0 in winter, UTC+1 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 55° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
United Kingdom
Capital
London
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+1 · Europe/London
Coordinates
54.60°N, 5.93°W
Currency
GBP (£)
Calling Code
+44
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Harland & Wolff's gantry cranes, Samson and Goliath, stand about 106 and 96 metres tall and are visible from most of Belfast. The yard built the Titanic here, launched in 1911 — a fact the city spent most of a century avoiding and now puts on the tourist maps.
The clock: Belfast keeps UK time, while Dublin, 160 km south, keeps Irish time. The two happen to be identical, which makes the border invisible on a clock if on nothing else.
Belfast lies at 5.9°W. Its time zone, UTC+0, is built around the prime meridian (0°). The 5.9° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 24 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:24 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 84 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:24.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 17h 17m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 7h 15m. The swing between them is 10h 2m. 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 Belfast the sun comes up earliest on 18 June at 04:46, while the latest sunset waits until 26 June at 22:04. 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 Belfast that civil twilight runs about 36 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 57 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 Belfast, United Kingdom is Europe/London with a current UTC offset of UTC+1.
Belfast has an estimated population of 345K and is located at coordinates 54.60°N, 5.93°W.
Belfast gets 17h 17m of daylight on its longest day and 7h 15m on its shortest, averaging 12h 18m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Belfast falls at about 12:24 on UTC+0 standard time, because the city sits 5.9° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Yard That Built the Titanic: Harland & Wolff's gantry cranes, Samson and Goliath, stand about 106 and 96 metres tall and are visible from most of Belfast.