France · CEST
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
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: 26 Oct. There is a 6-hour difference between Marseille and New York. 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. There is a 1-hour difference between Marseille and London. 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. There is a 7-hour difference between Marseille and Tokyo. 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.
Practical Info
Marseille (France) is home to roughly 870K people. Today brings about 15.2 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:00, sunset at 21:12. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+1 in winter, UTC+2 in summer. Next change: 26 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
CEST · 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 — several hundred more than Paris on the same clock.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
8h overlap