| 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 |
Nantes, 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 Nantes 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 Nantes lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Nantes 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 Nantes lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Nantes 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 Nantes 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 Nantes.
Nantes (France) is home to roughly 320K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 08:03, sunset at 19:48. 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 47° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
France
Capital
Paris
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Paris
Coordinates
47.22°N, 1.55°W
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+33
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
French
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Machines of the Isle of Nantes built a 12-metre mechanical elephant weighing about 48 tonnes that walks along the old shipyards carrying around 50 people at a time. It was built on the site of the Chantiers Navals, which closed in 1987.
The clock: Nantes keeps UTC+1. The Edict of Nantes, signed here in 1598, ended France's wars of religion for most of a century.
Nantes lies at 1.5°W. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 16.5° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 66 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 13:06 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 126 minutes and pushing solar noon to 14:06.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 56m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 29m. The swing between them is 7h 27m. 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 Nantes the sun comes up earliest on 17 June at 06:09, while the latest sunset waits until 27 June at 22:06. 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 Nantes that civil twilight runs about 30 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 40 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 Nantes, France is Europe/Paris with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Nantes has an estimated population of 320K and is located at coordinates 47.22°N, 1.55°W.
Nantes gets 15h 56m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 29m on its shortest, averaging 12h 15m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Nantes falls at about 13:06 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 16.5° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Mechanical Elephant That Carries Passengers: The Machines of the Isle of Nantes built a 12-metre mechanical elephant weighing about 48 tonnes that walks along the old shipyards carrying around 50 people at a time.