| 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 |
Cologne, Germany 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 Cologne 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 Cologne lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Cologne 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 Cologne lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Cologne 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 Cologne 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 Cologne.
Cologne (Germany) is home to roughly 1.1M people. Today brings about 11.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:31, sunset at 19:13. 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 51° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Germany
Capital
Berlin
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Berlin
Coordinates
50.94°N, 6.96°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+49
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
German
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Work on Cologne Cathedral began in 1248 and stopped in 1473 with the building half-finished; a crane sat on the unfinished south tower for nearly four centuries. It was completed in 1880 to the original medieval plans, which had survived.
The clock: Cologne runs on UTC+1. Its carnival season officially opens at 11:11 on 11 November — a time chosen for the number rather than for anything astronomical.
Cologne lies at 7.0°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 8.0° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 32 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:32 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 92 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:32.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 16h 32m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 7h 55m. The swing between them is 8h 37m. 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 Cologne the sun comes up earliest on 18 June at 05:17, while the latest sunset waits until 26 June at 21:50. 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 Cologne that civil twilight runs about 33 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 47 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 Cologne, Germany is Europe/Berlin with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Cologne has an estimated population of 1.1M and is located at coordinates 50.94°N, 6.96°E.
Cologne gets 16h 32m of daylight on its longest day and 7h 55m on its shortest, averaging 12h 16m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Cologne falls at about 12:32 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 8.0° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Cathedral That Took 632 Years: Work on Cologne Cathedral began in 1248 and stopped in 1473 with the building half-finished; a crane sat on the unfinished south tower for nearly four centuries.