| 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 |
Katowice, Poland 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 Katowice 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 Katowice lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Katowice 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 Katowice lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Katowice 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 Katowice 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 Katowice.
Katowice (Poland) is home to roughly 290K people. Today brings about 11.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:42, sunset at 18:25. 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 50° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Poland
Capital
Warsaw
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Warsaw
Coordinates
50.26°N, 19.02°E
Currency
PLN (zł)
Calling Code
+48
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Polish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra's hall, opened in 2014, stands on the site of the Katowice coal mine. The city's whole cultural zone — museum, congress centre, concert hall — sits on former mine workings.
The clock: Katowice keeps UTC+1 at the centre of a conurbation of over two million, one of the densest urban regions in Europe.
Katowice lies at 19.0°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 4.0° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 16 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:44 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 44 minutes and pushing solar noon to 12:44.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 16h 25m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 2m. The swing between them is 8h 23m. 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 Katowice the sun comes up earliest on 17 June at 04:32, while the latest sunset waits until 27 June at 20:59. 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 Katowice that civil twilight runs about 32 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 45 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 Katowice, Poland is Europe/Warsaw with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Katowice has an estimated population of 290K and is located at coordinates 50.26°N, 19.02°E.
Katowice gets 16h 25m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 2m on its shortest, averaging 12h 16m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Katowice falls at about 11:44 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 4.0° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Concert Hall Built on a Coal Mine: The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra's hall, opened in 2014, stands on the site of the Katowice coal mine. The city's whole cultural zone — museum, congress centre, concert hall — sits on former mine workings.