| 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 |
Bilbao, Spain 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 Bilbao 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 Bilbao lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Bilbao 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 Bilbao lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Bilbao 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 Bilbao 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 Bilbao.
Bilbao (Spain) is home to roughly 345K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 08:07, sunset at 19:55. 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 43° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Spain
Capital
Madrid
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Madrid
Coordinates
43.26°N, 2.93°W
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+34
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Spanish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Guggenheim opened in 1997 in a city whose shipyards and steelworks had collapsed, and drew millions of visitors within a few years. Urban planners now use "the Bilbao effect" as shorthand for the idea, mostly unrepeated elsewhere, that one building can turn a city around.
The clock: Bilbao keeps CET on the Bay of Biscay, where the weather is Atlantic rather than Mediterranean — around 1,200 mm of rain a year, more than double Málaga's.
Bilbao lies at 2.9°W. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 17.9° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 72 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 13:12 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 132 minutes and pushing solar noon to 14:12.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 24m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 58m. The swing between them is 6h 25m. 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 Bilbao the sun comes up earliest on 16 June at 06:31, while the latest sunset waits until 28 June at 21:56. 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 Bilbao that civil twilight runs about 28 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 36 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 Bilbao, Spain is Europe/Madrid with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Bilbao has an estimated population of 345K and is located at coordinates 43.26°N, 2.93°W.
Bilbao gets 15h 24m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 58m on its shortest, averaging 12h 13m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Bilbao falls at about 13:12 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 17.9° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Building That Renamed an Effect: The Guggenheim opened in 1997 in a city whose shipyards and steelworks had collapsed, and drew millions of visitors within a few years.