| 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 |
Mariehamn, Åland Islands 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 Mariehamn 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 Mariehamn lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Mariehamn 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 Mariehamn lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Mariehamn 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 Mariehamn 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 Mariehamn.
Mariehamn (Åland Islands) is home to roughly 12K people. Today brings about 11.6 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:43, sunset at 19:17. 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 60° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Åland Islands
Capital
Mariehamn 👑
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Europe/Mariehamn
Coordinates
60.10°N, 19.94°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+358
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Swedish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Åland Islands have been demilitarised by treaty since 1856 and neutral since 1921, with their own flag, parliament and Swedish-language guarantee inside Finland. Residents are exempt from conscription.
The clock: Mariehamn keeps UTC+2 with Finland, an hour ahead of Sweden whose language it speaks.
Mariehamn lies at 19.9°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 10.1° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 40 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:40 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 100 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:40.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 18h 55m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 5h 50m. The swing between them is 13h 4m. Close to the Arctic or Antarctic circle, the year swings hard between long light and long dark.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Mariehamn the sun comes up earliest on 20 June at 04:14, while the latest sunset waits until 24 June at 23:09. 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 Mariehamn that civil twilight runs about 42 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 110 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 Mariehamn, Åland Islands is Europe/Mariehamn with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Mariehamn has an estimated population of 12K and is located at coordinates 60.10°N, 19.94°E. It is the capital city of Åland Islands.
Mariehamn gets 18h 55m of daylight on its longest day and 5h 50m on its shortest, averaging 12h 23m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Mariehamn falls at about 12:40 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 10.1° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Demilitarised Province: The Åland Islands have been demilitarised by treaty since 1856 and neutral since 1921, with their own flag, parliament and Swedish-language guarantee inside Finland. Residents are exempt from conscription.