| 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 |
Coimbra, 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 Coimbra 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 Coimbra lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Coimbra 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 Coimbra lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Coimbra 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 Coimbra 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 Coimbra.
Coimbra (Portugal) is home to roughly 105K 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 40° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Portugal
Capital
Lisbon
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+1 · Europe/Lisbon
Coordinates
40.21°N, 8.43°W
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+351
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Portuguese
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Biblioteca Joanina keeps a colony of bats that emerges at night to eat insects that would otherwise damage the books. Staff cover the furniture in leather each evening. The library dates from 1728 and holds around 60,000 volumes.
The clock: Coimbra keeps UTC+0. Its university, founded in 1290, is one of the oldest continuously operating in the world.
Coimbra 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 2m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 18m. The swing between them is 5h 44m. 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 Coimbra the sun comes up earliest on 15 June at 06:03, while the latest sunset waits until 29 June at 21:07. 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 Coimbra that civil twilight runs about 27 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 33 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 Coimbra, Portugal is Europe/Lisbon with a current UTC offset of UTC+1.
Coimbra has an estimated population of 105K and is located at coordinates 40.21°N, 8.43°W.
Coimbra gets 15h 2m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 18m on its shortest, averaging 12h 12m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Coimbra falls at about 12:34 on UTC+0 standard time, because the city sits 8.4° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Library With Bats in It: The Biblioteca Joanina keeps a colony of bats that emerges at night to eat insects that would otherwise damage the books. Staff cover the furniture in leather each evening.