| 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 |
Braga, Portugal 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 Braga 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 Braga lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Braga 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 Braga lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Braga 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 Braga 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 Braga.
Braga (Portugal) is home to roughly 195K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:29, sunset at 19:18. 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 42° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Portugal
Capital
Lisbon
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+1 · Europe/Lisbon
Coordinates
41.55°N, 8.42°W
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+351
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Portuguese
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Bracara Augusta was founded by the Romans around 16 BC, more than a thousand years before Portugal existed as a kingdom. Braga has been an archbishopric since the 4th century and still styles itself the religious capital of the country.
The clock: Braga runs on UTC+0. Its Bom Jesus funicular, opened in 1882, is water-powered — counterweighted by filling a tank at the top, which makes gravity the only clock it needs.
Braga lies at 8.4°W. Its time zone, UTC+0, is built around the prime meridian (0°). The 8.4° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 34 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:34 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 94 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:34.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 11m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 10m. The swing between them is 6h 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 Braga the sun comes up earliest on 15 June at 05:59, while the latest sunset waits until 29 June at 21:12. 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 Braga that civil twilight runs about 28 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 34 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 Braga, Portugal is Europe/Lisbon with a current UTC offset of UTC+1.
Braga has an estimated population of 195K and is located at coordinates 41.55°N, 8.42°W.
Braga gets 15h 11m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 10m on its shortest, averaging 12h 13m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Braga falls at about 12:34 on UTC+0 standard time, because the city sits 8.4° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Older Than the Country It Sits In: Bracara Augusta was founded by the Romans around 16 BC, more than a thousand years before Portugal existed as a kingdom.