| 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 |
Cagliari, 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 Cagliari 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 Cagliari lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Cagliari 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 Cagliari lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Cagliari 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 Cagliari 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 Cagliari.
Cagliari (Italy) is home to roughly 150K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:18, sunset at 19:08. 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 39° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Italy
Capital
Rome
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Rome
Coordinates
39.22°N, 9.12°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+39
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Italian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Molentargius lagoon inside Cagliari hosts several thousand pink flamingos, which began nesting here in 1993 and now breed in the city every year. The lagoon was a salt works until the 1980s.
The clock: Cagliari keeps UTC+1. Sardinia is one of the world's blue zones, with an unusually high concentration of people living past 100.
Cagliari lies at 9.1°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 5.9° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 24 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:24 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 84 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:24.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 56m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 24m. The swing between them is 5h 32m. 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 Cagliari the sun comes up earliest on 15 June at 05:56, while the latest sunset waits until 29 June at 20:54. 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 Cagliari that civil twilight runs about 27 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 32 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 Cagliari, Italy is Europe/Rome with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Cagliari has an estimated population of 150K and is located at coordinates 39.22°N, 9.12°E.
Cagliari gets 14h 56m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 24m on its shortest, averaging 12h 12m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Cagliari falls at about 12:24 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 5.9° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Lagoon Full of Flamingos: Molentargius lagoon inside Cagliari hosts several thousand pink flamingos, which began nesting here in 1993 and now breed in the city every year. The lagoon was a salt works until the 1980s.