| 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 |
Kharkiv, Ukraine 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 Kharkiv 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 Kharkiv lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Kharkiv 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 Kharkiv lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Kharkiv 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 Kharkiv 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 Kharkiv.
Kharkiv (Ukraine) is home to roughly 1.4M people. Today brings about 11.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:33, sunset at 18:16. 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 50° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Ukraine
Capital
Kyiv
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Europe/Kyiv
Coordinates
49.99°N, 36.23°E
Currency
UAH (₴)
Calling Code
+380
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Ukrainian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Freedom Square covers about 12 hectares, which puts it among the largest city squares in Europe. Kharkiv was the capital of Soviet Ukraine from 1919 to 1934, and the constructivist Derzhprom building on the square was the tallest in the USSR when finished in 1928.
The clock: Kharkiv keeps UTC+2 and is Ukraine's second city, about 30 km from the Russian border.
Kharkiv lies at 36.2°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 6.2° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 25 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:35 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 35 minutes and pushing solar noon to 12:35.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 16h 22m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 4m. The swing between them is 8h 18m. 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 Kharkiv the sun comes up earliest on 17 June at 04:25, while the latest sunset waits until 27 June at 20:48. 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 Kharkiv 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 Kharkiv, Ukraine is Europe/Kyiv with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Kharkiv has an estimated population of 1.4M and is located at coordinates 49.99°N, 36.23°E.
Kharkiv gets 16h 22m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 4m on its shortest, averaging 12h 16m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Kharkiv falls at about 11:35 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 6.2° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Square Big Enough for Anything: Freedom Square covers about 12 hectares, which puts it among the largest city squares in Europe.