| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −1h | Becomes −2h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | ±0h | Becomes −1h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +2h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +7h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +8h | Becomes +9h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −6h | Becomes −7h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −9h | Becomes −10h on 1 Nov |
Kaliningrad, Russia runs on UTC+2. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+2 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Kaliningrad 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 Kaliningrad lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Kaliningrad 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 Kaliningrad lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Kaliningrad 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 Kaliningrad lines up with 16:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Johannesburg, Windhoek, Cape Town. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Kaliningrad.
Kaliningrad (Russia) is home to roughly 500K people. Today brings about 11.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:38, sunset at 18:17. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+2 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 55° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Russia
Capital
Moscow
Continent
Europe & Asia
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Kaliningrad
Coordinates
54.71°N, 20.51°E
Currency
RUB (₽)
Calling Code
+7
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Russian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Kaliningrad is a Russian exclave with no land connection to the rest of the country, bordered by Poland and Lithuania. It was Königsberg until 1946, and Immanuel Kant lived his entire life here without travelling more than about 150 km from it.
The clock: Kaliningrad keeps UTC+2 all year, the only part of Russia on that offset — an hour behind Moscow, and, because it does not change its clocks, the same as Vilnius in winter and Warsaw in summer.
Kaliningrad lies at 20.5°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 9.5° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 38 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:38 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+2 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 17h 19m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 7h 14m. The swing between them is 10h 5m. 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 Kaliningrad the sun comes up earliest on 18 June at 04:00, while the latest sunset waits until 26 June at 21:19. 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 Kaliningrad that civil twilight runs about 36 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 57 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 Kaliningrad, Russia is Europe/Kaliningrad with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Kaliningrad has an estimated population of 500K and is located at coordinates 54.71°N, 20.51°E.
Kaliningrad gets 17h 19m of daylight on its longest day and 7h 14m on its shortest, averaging 12h 18m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Kaliningrad falls at about 12:38 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 9.5° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Region Attached to Nothing: Kaliningrad is a Russian exclave with no land connection to the rest of the country, bordered by Poland and Lithuania.