| 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 |
Heidelberg, 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 Heidelberg 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 Heidelberg lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Heidelberg 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 Heidelberg lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Heidelberg 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 Heidelberg 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 Heidelberg.
Heidelberg (Germany) is home to roughly 160K people. Today brings about 11.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:23, sunset at 19:07. 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 49° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Germany
Capital
Berlin
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Berlin
Coordinates
49.40°N, 8.69°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+49
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
German
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Great Vat in Heidelberg Castle's cellar holds about 220,000 litres and is the largest wine barrel in the world. It has a dance floor on top. It has leaked more or less continuously since it was built in 1751.
The clock: Heidelberg keeps UTC+1. Its university, founded in 1386, is the oldest in Germany.
Heidelberg lies at 8.7°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 6.3° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 25 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:25 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 85 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:25.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 16h 16m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 10m. The swing between them is 8h 6m. 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 Heidelberg the sun comes up earliest on 17 June at 05:18, while the latest sunset waits until 27 June at 21:35. 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 Heidelberg that civil twilight runs about 32 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 44 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 Heidelberg, Germany is Europe/Berlin with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Heidelberg has an estimated population of 160K and is located at coordinates 49.40°N, 8.69°E.
Heidelberg gets 16h 16m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 10m on its shortest, averaging 12h 15m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Heidelberg falls at about 12:25 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 6.3° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Barrel Holding 220,000 Litres: The Great Vat in Heidelberg Castle's cellar holds about 220,000 litres and is the largest wine barrel in the world. It has a dance floor on top. It has leaked more or less continuously since it was built in 1751.