| 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 |
Cambridge, United Kingdom 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 Cambridge 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 Cambridge lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Cambridge 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 Cambridge lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Cambridge 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 Cambridge 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 Cambridge.
Cambridge (United Kingdom) is home to roughly 150K people. Today brings about 11.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:58, sunset at 18:40. 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 52° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
United Kingdom
Capital
London
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+1 · Europe/London
Coordinates
52.21°N, 0.12°E
Currency
GBP (£)
Calling Code
+44
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Watson and Crick announced the double helix at the Eagle pub in Cambridge in February 1953, using Rosalind Franklin's X-ray data from King's College London. The university and its labs have produced well over a hundred Nobel laureates.
The clock: the Corpus Clock on Bennet Street, unveiled in 2008, is deliberately inaccurate — it runs correctly only once every five minutes, with a metal locust eating the seconds.
Cambridge lies at 0.1°E. Its time zone, UTC+0, is built around the prime meridian (0°). The two very nearly coincide: solar noon — the moment the sun is highest — falls at about 12:00, which is as close to true solar time as a zone this wide can get. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 60 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:00.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 16h 47m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 7h 42m. The swing between them is 9h 4m. 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 Cambridge the sun comes up earliest on 18 June at 04:37, while the latest sunset waits until 26 June at 21:25. 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 Cambridge that civil twilight runs about 34 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 49 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 Cambridge, United Kingdom is Europe/London with a current UTC offset of UTC+1.
Cambridge has an estimated population of 150K and is located at coordinates 52.21°N, 0.12°E.
Cambridge gets 16h 47m of daylight on its longest day and 7h 42m on its shortest, averaging 12h 17m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Cambridge falls at about 12:00 on UTC+0 standard time, because the city sits 0.1° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Where DNA Was Worked Out: Watson and Crick announced the double helix at the Eagle pub in Cambridge in February 1953, using Rosalind Franklin's X-ray data from King's College London.