| 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 |
Bologna, 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. The time difference between Bologna 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 Bologna lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Bologna 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 Bologna lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Bologna 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 Bologna 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 Bologna.
Bologna (Italy) is home to roughly 390K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:11, sunset at 18:58. 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 44° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Italy
Capital
Rome
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Rome
Coordinates
44.49°N, 11.34°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+39
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Italian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The University of Bologna dates its founding to 1088, which makes it the oldest university in continuous operation in the Western world. The word universitas was first used here for the student guilds who hired and fired their own professors.
The clock: Bologna keeps UTC+1. Its two leaning towers have stood since the 12th century; the shorter one, Garisenda, leans about four degrees — about as much as Pisa's.
Bologna lies at 11.3°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 3.7° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 15 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:15 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 75 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:15.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 33m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 50m. The swing between them is 6h 43m. 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 Bologna the sun comes up earliest on 16 June at 05:29, while the latest sunset waits until 28 June at 21:03. 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 Bologna 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 Bologna, Italy is Europe/Rome with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Bologna has an estimated population of 390K and is located at coordinates 44.49°N, 11.34°E.
Bologna gets 15h 33m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 50m on its shortest, averaging 12h 14m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Bologna falls at about 12:15 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 3.7° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Oldest University Still Running: The University of Bologna dates its founding to 1088, which makes it the oldest university in continuous operation in the Western world.