| 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 |
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: 25 Oct. The time difference between Grenoble 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 Grenoble lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Grenoble 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 Grenoble lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Grenoble 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 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.
Grenoble (France) is home to roughly 160K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:33, sunset at 19:20. 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 45° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
France
Capital
Paris
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · 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 cable car, running since 1934 (its bubble-shaped cabins since 1976), was among the first urban cable cars in the world.
Grenoble lies at 5.7°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 9.3° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 37 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:37 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 97 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:37.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 39m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 45m. The swing between them is 6h 54m. 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 Grenoble the sun comes up earliest on 16 June at 05:49, while the latest sunset waits until 28 June at 21:29. 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 Grenoble that civil twilight runs about 29 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 38 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 Grenoble, France is Europe/Paris with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Grenoble has an estimated population of 160K and is located at coordinates 45.19°N, 5.72°E.
Grenoble gets 15h 39m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 45m on its shortest, averaging 12h 14m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Grenoble falls at about 12:37 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 9.3° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Flattest City in France, With Mountains: 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.