| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −2h | |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −1h | |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +1h | Becomes +2h on 25 Oct |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +6h | Becomes +7h on 25 Oct |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +7h | Becomes +8h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −7h | Becomes −6h on 24 Oct |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −10h | Becomes −9h on 24 Oct |
Cluj-Napoca, Romania runs on UTC+3. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. The time difference between Cluj-Napoca and New York is 7 hours. 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 Cluj-Napoca lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Cluj-Napoca and London is 2 hours. 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 Cluj-Napoca lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Cluj-Napoca and Tokyo is 6 hours. 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 Cluj-Napoca lines up with 15:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Athens, Cairo, Beirut. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Cluj-Napoca.
Cluj-Napoca (Romania) is home to roughly 320K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:22, sunset at 19:08. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 47° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Romania
Capital
Bucharest
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Europe/Bucharest
Coordinates
46.77°N, 23.60°E
Currency
RON (lei)
Calling Code
+40
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Romanian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Cluj-Napoca has roughly 100,000 university students in a city of around 290,000 — close to one in three residents during term time. It has grown into Romania's main technology centre largely on that basis.
The clock: Cluj keeps UTC+2. Its Untold festival draws crowds comparable to the city's own population, in a country whose clocks run an hour ahead of most of the EU.
Cluj-Napoca lies at 23.6°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 6.4° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 26 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:26 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 86 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:26.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 52m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 32m. The swing between them is 7h 20m. 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 Cluj-Napoca the sun comes up earliest on 17 June at 05:31, while the latest sunset waits until 27 June at 21:24. 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 Cluj-Napoca that civil twilight runs about 30 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 40 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 Cluj-Napoca, Romania is Europe/Bucharest with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Cluj-Napoca has an estimated population of 320K and is located at coordinates 46.77°N, 23.60°E.
Cluj-Napoca gets 15h 52m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 32m on its shortest, averaging 12h 14m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Cluj-Napoca falls at about 12:26 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 6.4° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City of Students: Cluj-Napoca has roughly 100,000 university students in a city of around 290,000 — close to one in three residents during term time. It has grown into Romania's main technology centre largely on that basis.