| 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 |
Galway, 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 Galway 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 Galway lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Galway 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 Galway lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Galway 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 Galway 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 Galway.
Galway (Ireland) is home to roughly 85K people. Today brings about 11.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:36, sunset at 19:16. 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 53° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Ireland
Capital
Dublin
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+1 · Europe/Dublin
Coordinates
53.27°N, 9.05°W
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+353
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Irish, English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
County Galway holds the largest Gaeltacht in Ireland, where Irish is still the everyday community language for tens of thousands of people. The city itself was a Norman merchant town whose fourteen ruling families were called the Tribes.
The clock: Galway keeps Irish time. Dublin Mean Time ran 25 minutes behind Greenwich until 1916, when it was abolished — by a British parliament, in the same year as the Rising, which was noticed at the time.
Galway lies at 9.0°W. Its time zone, UTC+0, is built around the prime meridian (0°). The 9.0° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 36 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:36 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 96 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:36.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 17h of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 7h 31m. The swing between them is 9h 29m. 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 Galway the sun comes up earliest on 18 June at 05:08, while the latest sunset waits until 26 June at 22:08. 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 Galway that civil twilight runs about 35 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 52 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 Galway, Ireland is Europe/Dublin with a current UTC offset of UTC+1.
Galway has an estimated population of 85K and is located at coordinates 53.27°N, 9.05°W.
Galway gets 17h of daylight on its longest day and 7h 31m on its shortest, averaging 12h 17m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Galway falls at about 12:36 on UTC+0 standard time, because the city sits 9.0° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City That Speaks Irish: County Galway holds the largest Gaeltacht in Ireland, where Irish is still the everyday community language for tens of thousands of people.