| 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 |
Freiburg, 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 Freiburg 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 Freiburg lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Freiburg 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 Freiburg lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Freiburg 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 Freiburg 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 Freiburg.
Freiburg (Germany) is home to roughly 230K people. Today brings about 11.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:26, sunset at 19:10. 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
Germany
Capital
Berlin
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Berlin
Coordinates
47.99°N, 7.85°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+49
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
German
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Freiburg's Bächle are small water channels running along the streets, documented from the 13th century and originally used for firefighting and livestock. Local superstition holds that stepping in one means you will marry a Freiburger.
The clock: Freiburg keeps UTC+1 and is the sunniest city in Germany, with around 1,740 hours of sunshine a year — which is why it became a centre of solar research.
Freiburg lies at 7.9°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 7.1° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 29 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:29 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 89 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:29.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 16h 3m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 22m. The swing between them is 7h 41m. 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 Freiburg the sun comes up earliest on 17 June at 05:28, while the latest sunset waits until 27 June at 21:32. 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 Freiburg 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 Freiburg, Germany is Europe/Berlin with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Freiburg has an estimated population of 230K and is located at coordinates 47.99°N, 7.85°E.
Freiburg gets 16h 3m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 22m on its shortest, averaging 12h 15m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Freiburg falls at about 12:29 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 7.1° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Gutters Running Through the Streets: Freiburg's Bächle are small water channels running along the streets, documented from the 13th century and originally used for firefighting and livestock.