| 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 |
Kiel, 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 Kiel 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 Kiel lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Kiel 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 Kiel lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Kiel 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 Kiel 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 Kiel.
Kiel (Germany) is home to roughly 250K people. Today brings about 11.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:19, sunset at 18:59. 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 54° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Germany
Capital
Berlin
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Berlin
Coordinates
54.32°N, 10.14°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+49
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
German
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Kiel Canal carries more than 20,000 ships a year, historically more than the Suez and Panama canals combined, saving vessels roughly 460 km around Denmark. It opened in 1895.
The clock: Kiel keeps UTC+1. Kieler Woche each June is the largest sailing event in the world, drawing several thousand boats.
Kiel lies at 10.1°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 4.9° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 19 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:19 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 79 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:19.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 17h 13m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 7h 19m. The swing between them is 9h 55m. 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 Kiel the sun comes up earliest on 18 June at 04:44, while the latest sunset waits until 26 June at 21:58. 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 Kiel that civil twilight runs about 36 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 56 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 Kiel, Germany is Europe/Berlin with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Kiel has an estimated population of 250K and is located at coordinates 54.32°N, 10.14°E.
Kiel gets 17h 13m of daylight on its longest day and 7h 19m on its shortest, averaging 12h 18m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Kiel falls at about 12:19 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 4.9° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Busiest Artificial Waterway: The Kiel Canal carries more than 20,000 ships a year, historically more than the Suez and Panama canals combined, saving vessels roughly 460 km around Denmark. It opened in 1895.