| 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 |
Lille, France 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 Lille 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 Lille lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Lille 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 Lille lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Lille 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 Lille 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 Lille.
Lille (France) is home to roughly 235K people. Today brings about 11.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:46, sunset at 19:29. 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 51° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
France
Capital
Paris
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Paris
Coordinates
50.63°N, 3.06°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+33
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
French
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Braderie de Lille draws around two million people over a weekend each September, with sellers lining roughly 100 kilometres of pavement. Restaurants compete to build the largest pile of discarded mussel shells outside their doors.
The clock: Lille keeps UTC+1, and is closer to Brussels than to Paris: 35 minutes by train from Brussels, about an hour from Paris and 80 minutes from London.
Lille lies at 3.1°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 11.9° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 48 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:48 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 108 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:48.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 16h 29m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 7h 58m. The swing between them is 8h 31m. 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 Lille the sun comes up earliest on 18 June at 05:34, while the latest sunset waits until 26 June at 22:04. 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 Lille that civil twilight runs about 33 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 46 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 Lille, France is Europe/Paris with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Lille has an estimated population of 235K and is located at coordinates 50.63°N, 3.06°E.
Lille gets 16h 29m of daylight on its longest day and 7h 58m on its shortest, averaging 12h 16m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Lille falls at about 12:48 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 11.9° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Europe's Largest Flea Market: The Braderie de Lille draws around two million people over a weekend each September, with sellers lining roughly 100 kilometres of pavement.