France · CEST
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Grenoble, France 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 Grenoble 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 Grenoble lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. There is a 1-hour difference between Grenoble 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 Grenoble lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. There is a 7-hour difference between Grenoble 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 Grenoble 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 Grenoble.
Practical Info
Grenoble (France) is home to roughly 160K people. Today brings about 15.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:48, sunset at 21:30. 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 45° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
France
Capital
Paris
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
CEST · Europe/Paris
Coordinates
45.19°N, 5.72°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+33
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
French
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Grenoble sits on an almost perfectly flat valley floor at about 210 metres, ringed by three mountain ranges rising to over 2,000. Stendhal wrote that at the end of every street there is a mountain.
The clock: Grenoble keeps UTC+1. Its egg-shaped cable cars, running since 1934, were among the first urban cable cars in the world.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
8h overlap