| 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 |
Debrecen, Hungary 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 Debrecen 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 Debrecen lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Debrecen 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 Debrecen lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Debrecen 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 Debrecen 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 Debrecen.
Debrecen (Hungary) is home to roughly 200K people. Today brings about 11.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:31, sunset at 18:15. 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 48° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Hungary
Capital
Budapest
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Budapest
Coordinates
47.53°N, 21.62°E
Currency
HUF (Ft)
Calling Code
+36
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Hungarian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Debrecen has been a centre of Hungarian Protestantism since the 16th century, earning it the nickname the Calvinist Rome. Hungary declared independence from the Habsburgs in its Great Church in 1849, and the government sat here again in 1944.
The clock: Debrecen keeps UTC+1. Its Flower Carnival each August has been running since 1966.
Debrecen lies at 21.6°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 6.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 26 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:34 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 34 minutes and pushing solar noon to 12:34.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 59m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 26m. The swing between them is 7h 33m. 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 Debrecen the sun comes up earliest on 17 June at 04:35, while the latest sunset waits until 27 June at 20:35. 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 Debrecen that civil twilight runs about 31 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 41 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 Debrecen, Hungary is Europe/Budapest with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Debrecen has an estimated population of 200K and is located at coordinates 47.53°N, 21.62°E.
Debrecen gets 15h 59m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 26m on its shortest, averaging 12h 15m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Debrecen falls at about 11:34 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 6.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Calvinist Rome: Debrecen has been a centre of Hungarian Protestantism since the 16th century, earning it the nickname the Calvinist Rome.