| 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 |
Maastricht, Netherlands 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 Maastricht 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 Maastricht lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Maastricht 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 Maastricht lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Maastricht 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 Maastricht 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 Maastricht.
Maastricht (Netherlands) is home to roughly 120K people. Today brings about 11.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:36, sunset at 19:18. 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
Netherlands
Capital
Amsterdam
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Amsterdam
Coordinates
50.85°N, 5.69°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+31
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Dutch
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Maastricht Treaty, signed in February 1992, created the European Union and set the criteria for the single currency. The city also sits on a hill riddled with roughly 20,000 passages of old marl quarry.
The clock: Maastricht keeps UTC+1 and is closer to Brussels, Cologne and Aachen than to Amsterdam.
Maastricht lies at 5.7°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 9.3° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 37 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:37 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 97 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:37.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 16h 31m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 7h 56m. The swing between them is 8h 35m. 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 Maastricht the sun comes up earliest on 18 June at 05:23, while the latest sunset waits until 26 June at 21:55. 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 Maastricht 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 Maastricht, Netherlands is Europe/Amsterdam with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Maastricht has an estimated population of 120K and is located at coordinates 50.85°N, 5.69°E.
Maastricht gets 16h 31m of daylight on its longest day and 7h 56m on its shortest, averaging 12h 16m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Maastricht falls at about 12:37 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 9.3° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Where the Euro Was Agreed: The Maastricht Treaty, signed in February 1992, created the European Union and set the criteria for the single currency. The city also sits on a hill riddled with roughly 20,000 passages of old marl quarry.