| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −2h | |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −1h | |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +1h | Becomes +2h on 25 Oct |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +6h | Becomes +7h on 25 Oct |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +7h | Becomes +8h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −7h | Becomes −6h on 24 Oct |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −10h | Becomes −9h on 24 Oct |
Kaunas, Lithuania runs on UTC+3. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. The time difference between Kaunas and New York is 7 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 16:00–18:00 in Kaunas lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Kaunas and London is 2 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 7 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 11:00–18:00 in Kaunas lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Kaunas and Tokyo is 6 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–12:00 in Kaunas lines up with 15:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Athens, Cairo, Beirut. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Kaunas.
Kaunas (Lithuania) is home to roughly 300K people. Today brings about 11.6 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:24, sunset at 19:03. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 55° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Lithuania
Capital
Vilnius
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Europe/Vilnius
Coordinates
54.90°N, 23.91°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+370
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Lithuanian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Kaunas was Lithuania's provisional capital from 1920 to 1939, while Vilnius was held by Poland. The interwar modernist architecture built during those years was listed by UNESCO in 2023.
The clock: Kaunas keeps UTC+2. Lithuania switched to Central European Time in 1998, returned to Eastern European Time in 1999 and went without daylight saving until 2003.
Kaunas lies at 23.9°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 6.1° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 24 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:24 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 84 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:24.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 17h 21m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 7h 11m. The swing between them is 10h 10m. 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 Kaunas the sun comes up earliest on 18 June at 04:45, while the latest sunset waits until 26 June at 22:07. 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 Kaunas that civil twilight runs about 36 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 58 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 Kaunas, Lithuania is Europe/Vilnius with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Kaunas has an estimated population of 300K and is located at coordinates 54.90°N, 23.91°E.
Kaunas gets 17h 21m of daylight on its longest day and 7h 11m on its shortest, averaging 12h 19m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Kaunas falls at about 12:24 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 6.1° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Temporary Capital for Twenty Years: Kaunas was Lithuania's provisional capital from 1920 to 1939, while Vilnius was held by Poland. The interwar modernist architecture built during those years was listed by UNESCO in 2023.