| 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 |
Karlsruhe, 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 Karlsruhe 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 Karlsruhe lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Karlsruhe 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 Karlsruhe lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Karlsruhe 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 Karlsruhe 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 Karlsruhe.
Karlsruhe (Germany) is home to roughly 310K people. Today brings about 11.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:24, sunset at 19:08. 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
49.01°N, 8.40°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+49
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
German
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Karlsruhe was laid out in 1715 with 32 streets radiating from the palace tower like spokes, which is why it is nicknamed the fan city. Germany's Federal Constitutional Court sits here rather than in the capital, deliberately.
The clock: Karlsruhe keeps UTC+1. Germany's first email was received here in 1984, and the country's .de domain was run from the city from 1994 to 1997.
Karlsruhe lies at 8.4°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 6.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 26 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:26 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 86 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:26.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 16h 13m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 13m. The swing between them is 7h 59m. 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 Karlsruhe the sun comes up earliest on 17 June at 05:21, 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 Karlsruhe that civil twilight runs about 32 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 43 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 Karlsruhe, Germany is Europe/Berlin with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Karlsruhe has an estimated population of 310K and is located at coordinates 49.01°N, 8.40°E.
Karlsruhe gets 16h 13m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 13m on its shortest, averaging 12h 15m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Karlsruhe falls at about 12:26 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 6.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City Shaped Like a Fan: Karlsruhe was laid out in 1715 with 32 streets radiating from the palace tower like spokes, which is why it is nicknamed the fan city.