| 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 |
Košice, Slovakia 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 Košice 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 Košice lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Košice 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 Košice lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Košice 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 Košice 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 Košice.
Košice (Slovakia) is home to roughly 230K 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+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
Slovakia
Capital
Bratislava
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Bratislava
Coordinates
48.72°N, 21.26°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+421
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Slovak
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Košice received an armorial grant in 1369, the first European city to be given a coat of arms by a sovereign rather than simply adopting one. Its cathedral is the easternmost Gothic cathedral in Europe.
The clock: Košice keeps UTC+1. Its peace marathon, run since 1924, is the oldest in Europe and the third oldest in the world, after Boston and Yonkers.
Košice lies at 21.3°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 6.3° 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 10m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 16m. The swing between them is 7h 54m. 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 Košice the sun comes up earliest on 17 June at 04:31, while the latest sunset waits until 27 June at 20:42. 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 Košice that civil twilight runs about 31 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 42 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 Košice, Slovakia is Europe/Bratislava with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Košice has an estimated population of 230K and is located at coordinates 48.72°N, 21.26°E.
Košice gets 16h 10m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 16m on its shortest, averaging 12h 15m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Košice falls at about 11:35 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 6.3° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Europe's First City Arms Granted by a King: Košice received an armorial grant in 1369, the first European city to be given a coat of arms by a sovereign rather than simply adopting one. Its cathedral is the easternmost Gothic cathedral in Europe.