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Bucharest

UTC+3

Romania · EEST

Summer
03:42:57Live

Tue, 15 Sept 2026

00:00↑ 05:30↓ 21:0024:00
Sunrise
05:30
Sunset
21:00
Daylight
15.5hrs
Population
1.8M
Season
Summer
Next full moon
14 Jul
Buck Moon

Timezone Guide

Bucharest, Romania runs on UTC+3. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 26 Oct. There is a 7-hour difference between Bucharest and New York. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 16:00–18:00 in Bucharest lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. There is a 2-hour difference between Bucharest and London. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 7 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 11:00–18:00 in Bucharest lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. There is a 6-hour difference between Bucharest and Tokyo. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–12:00 in Bucharest lines up with 15:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Moscow, Athens, Istanbul. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Bucharest.

Practical Info

Bucharest (Romania) is home to roughly 1.8M people. Today brings about 15.5 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:30, sunset at 21:00. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 26 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 44° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.

Flag

Romania

Romania

Capital

Bucharest 👑

Continent

Europe

Time Zone

EEST · Europe/Bucharest

Coordinates

44.43°N, 26.10°E

Currency

RON (lei)

Calling Code

+40

Driving Side

Right

Hemisphere

Northern

Language

Romanian

Measurement System

Metric

Did You Know?

The Heaviest Building on Earth

The Palace of the Parliament weighs roughly four million tonnes and contains about 3.7 million cubic metres of volume, making it the heaviest building ever constructed. Ceaușescu demolished around a fifth of historic Bucharest to clear the site.

The clock: Bucharest keeps UTC+2. The palace has 1,100 rooms; a substantial share have never been used for anything.

Annual Daylight

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Working Hours

9h overlap

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