| 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 |
Hamburg, Germany 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 Hamburg 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 Hamburg lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Hamburg 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 Hamburg lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Hamburg 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 Hamburg 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 Hamburg.
Hamburg (Germany) is home to roughly 1.9M people. Today brings about 11.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:19, sunset at 19:00. 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 54° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Germany
Capital
Berlin
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Berlin
Coordinates
53.55°N, 9.99°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+49
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
German
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Hamburg has over 2,300 bridges — more than Venice, Amsterdam and London put together — because the city is built across the Elbe, the Alster and a dense grid of canals serving Europe's third-largest port.
The clock: Hamburg keeps UTC+1. At 53.5° north its winter afternoons end early: the sun is gone by about 16:00 in late December.
Hamburg lies at 10.0°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 5.0° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 20 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:20 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 80 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:20.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 17h 3m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 7h 28m. The swing between them is 9h 36m. 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 Hamburg the sun comes up earliest on 18 June at 04:50, while the latest sunset waits until 26 June at 21:54. 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 Hamburg that civil twilight runs about 35 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 53 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 Hamburg, Germany is Europe/Berlin with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Hamburg has an estimated population of 1.9M and is located at coordinates 53.55°N, 9.99°E.
Hamburg gets 17h 3m of daylight on its longest day and 7h 28m on its shortest, averaging 12h 18m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Hamburg falls at about 12:20 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 5.0° from the meridian its zone is built on.
More Bridges Than Any Other City: Hamburg has over 2,300 bridges — more than Venice, Amsterdam and London put together — because the city is built across the Elbe, the Alster and a dense grid of canals serving Europe's third-largest port.