| 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 |
Marseille, 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 Marseille 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 Marseille lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Marseille 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 Marseille lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Marseille 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 Marseille 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 Marseille.
Marseille (France) is home to roughly 870K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:34, sunset at 19:22. 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 43° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
France
Capital
Paris
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Paris
Coordinates
43.30°N, 5.37°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+33
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
French
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Greek sailors from Phocaea founded Massalia around 600 BC, which makes Marseille roughly 2,600 years old and the oldest city in France by a comfortable margin. Paris came later and by a different route entirely.
The clock: Marseille keeps Central European Time. Sitting on France's southern coast, it gets around 2,800 hours of sunshine a year — over a thousand more than Paris on the same clock.
Marseille lies at 5.4°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 9.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 39 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:39 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 99 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:39.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 24m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 58m. The swing between them is 6h 26m. 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 Marseille the sun comes up earliest on 16 June at 05:57, while the latest sunset waits until 28 June at 21:23. 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 Marseille that civil twilight runs about 28 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 36 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 Marseille, France is Europe/Paris with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Marseille has an estimated population of 870K and is located at coordinates 43.30°N, 5.37°E.
Marseille gets 15h 24m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 58m on its shortest, averaging 12h 13m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Marseille falls at about 12:39 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 9.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
France's Oldest City: Greek sailors from Phocaea founded Massalia around 600 BC, which makes Marseille roughly 2,600 years old and the oldest city in France by a comfortable margin. Paris came later and by a different route entirely.