Norway · CEST
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Bergen, Norway runs on UTC+2. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+1 in winter, UTC+2 in summer. Next change: 26 Oct. There is a 6-hour difference between Bergen 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 Bergen lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. There is a 1-hour difference between Bergen 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 Bergen lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. There is a 7-hour difference between Bergen 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 Bergen 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 Bergen.
Practical Info
Bergen (Norway) is home to roughly 285K people. Today brings about 18.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 04:12, sunset at 23:06. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+1 in winter, UTC+2 in summer. Next change: 26 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 60° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Norway
Capital
Oslo
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
CEST · Europe/Oslo
Coordinates
60.39°N, 5.32°E
Currency
NOK (kr)
Calling Code
+47
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Norwegian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Bergen averages around 230 days of rain a year and roughly 2,250 mm of it, making it one of the wettest cities in Europe. In 2006–07 it rained for 85 consecutive days, which the local paper covered as a countdown.
The clock: at 60.4° north Bergen swings from about 19 hours of daylight in June to under 6 in December — though in a city this cloudy, the distinction is somewhat theoretical.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
8h overlap