Poland · CEST
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Gdansk, Poland runs on UTC+2. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+1 in winter, UTC+2 in summer. Next change: 26 Oct. There is a 6-hour difference between Gdansk and New York. 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 Gdansk lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. There is a 1-hour difference between Gdansk and London. 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 Gdansk lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. There is a 7-hour difference between Gdansk and Tokyo. 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 Gdansk 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 Gdansk.
Practical Info
Gdansk (Poland) is home to roughly 470K people. Today brings about 16.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 04:18, sunset at 21:12. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+1 in winter, UTC+2 in summer. Next change: 26 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 54° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
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Poland
Capital
Warsaw
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
CEST · Europe/Warsaw
Coordinates
54.35°N, 18.65°E
Currency
PLN (zł)
Calling Code
+48
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Polish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The August 1980 strike at the Lenin Shipyard produced the 21 Demands and, with them, Solidarity — the first independent trade union in the Eastern Bloc, which reached nearly ten million members within a year.
The clock: Gdańsk keeps UTC+1. Amber from the Baltic coast has been traded through here since Roman times, along a route that reached the Mediterranean.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
8h overlap