| 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 |
Cork, Ireland 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 Cork 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 Cork lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Cork 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 Cork lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Cork 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 Cork 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 Cork.
Cork (Ireland) is home to roughly 220K people. Today brings about 11.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:33, sunset at 19:14. 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
Ireland
Capital
Dublin
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+1 · Europe/Dublin
Coordinates
51.90°N, 8.47°W
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+353
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Irish, English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Cork Harbour is often described as one of the largest natural harbours in the world by area. It was the last port of call for the Titanic, and for around 2.5 million Irish emigrants who left through Cobh between 1848 and 1950.
The clock: Ireland's summer clock is legally the standard one and winter is the deviation — a legislative quirk left over from the 1968–71 experiment with year-round summer time. The hands do the same thing either way.
Cork lies at 8.5°W. Its time zone, UTC+0, is built around the prime meridian (0°). The 8.5° 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 16h 43m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 7h 46m. The swing between them is 8h 57m. 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 Cork the sun comes up earliest on 18 June at 05:13, while the latest sunset waits until 26 June at 21:57. 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 Cork 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 Cork, Ireland is Europe/Dublin with a current UTC offset of UTC+1.
Cork has an estimated population of 220K and is located at coordinates 51.90°N, 8.47°W.
Cork gets 16h 43m of daylight on its longest day and 7h 46m on its shortest, averaging 12h 17m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Cork falls at about 12:34 on UTC+0 standard time, because the city sits 8.5° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Second City and Its Harbour: Cork Harbour is often described as one of the largest natural harbours in the world by area.