| 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 |
Gothenburg, Sweden 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 Gothenburg 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 Gothenburg lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Gothenburg 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 Gothenburg lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Gothenburg 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 Gothenburg 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 Gothenburg.
Gothenburg (Sweden) is home to roughly 600K people. Today brings about 11.6 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:14, sunset at 18:50. 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 58° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Sweden
Capital
Stockholm
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Stockholm
Coordinates
57.71°N, 11.97°E
Currency
SEK (kr)
Calling Code
+46
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Swedish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Port of Gothenburg handles roughly 30% of Swedish foreign trade and is the largest port in the Nordic countries. The city was founded by royal charter in 1621 and laid out by Dutch engineers, which is why it has canals.
The clock: Gothenburg keeps UTC+1. Its Liseberg amusement park is among the most visited in Europe, and its main season ends in autumn, though it reopens for Halloween and for one of Scandinavia's largest Christmas markets.
Gothenburg lies at 12.0°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 3.0° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 12 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:12 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 72 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:12.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 18h 6m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 6h 32m. The swing between them is 11h 34m. Close to the Arctic or Antarctic circle, the year swings hard between long light and long dark.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Gothenburg the sun comes up earliest on 19 June at 04:10, while the latest sunset waits until 25 June at 22:17. 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 Gothenburg that civil twilight runs about 39 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 74 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 Gothenburg, Sweden is Europe/Stockholm with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Gothenburg has an estimated population of 600K and is located at coordinates 57.71°N, 11.97°E.
Gothenburg gets 18h 6m of daylight on its longest day and 6h 32m on its shortest, averaging 12h 21m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Gothenburg falls at about 12:12 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 3.0° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Scandinavia's Largest Port: The Port of Gothenburg handles roughly 30% of Swedish foreign trade and is the largest port in the Nordic countries.