| 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 |
Groningen, Netherlands 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 Groningen 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 Groningen lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Groningen 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 Groningen lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Groningen 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 Groningen 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 Groningen.
Groningen (Netherlands) is home to roughly 235K people. Today brings about 11.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:33, sunset at 19:13. 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 53° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Netherlands
Capital
Amsterdam
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Amsterdam
Coordinates
53.22°N, 6.57°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+31
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Dutch
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Groningen made a traffic circulation plan in 1977 that divided the centre into four sectors cars cannot drive between. Around 60% of trips inside the city are now made by bicycle, one of the highest shares anywhere.
The clock: Groningen keeps UTC+1 and has one of the youngest average populations in the Netherlands, with roughly a quarter of residents students.
Groningen lies at 6.6°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 8.4° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 34 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:34 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 94 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:34.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 16h 59m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 7h 31m. The swing between them is 9h 28m. 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 Groningen the sun comes up earliest on 18 June at 05:05, while the latest sunset waits until 26 June at 22:05. 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 Groningen 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 Groningen, Netherlands is Europe/Amsterdam with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Groningen has an estimated population of 235K and is located at coordinates 53.22°N, 6.57°E.
Groningen gets 16h 59m of daylight on its longest day and 7h 31m on its shortest, averaging 12h 17m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Groningen falls at about 12:34 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 8.4° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City Where Most Journeys Are by Bike: Groningen made a traffic circulation plan in 1977 that divided the centre into four sectors cars cannot drive between. Around 60% of trips inside the city are now made by bicycle, one of the highest shares anywhere.