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Nantes

UTC+2

France · CEST

Summer
02:43:55Live

Tue, 15 Sept 2026

00:00↑ 06:12↓ 22:0624:00
Sunrise
06:12
Sunset
22:06
Daylight
15.9hrs
Population
320K
Season
Summer
Next full moon
14 Jul
Buck Moon

Timezone Guide

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: 26 Oct. There is a 6-hour difference between Nantes 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 Nantes lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. There is a 1-hour difference between Nantes 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 Nantes lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. There is a 7-hour difference between Nantes 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 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.

Practical Info

Nantes (France) is home to roughly 320K people. Today brings about 15.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:12, sunset at 22:06. 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 47° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.

Flag

France

France

Capital

Paris

Continent

Europe

Time Zone

CEST · 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?

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. 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.

Annual Daylight

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Working Hours

8h overlap
NantesUTC+2
06121824
Your locationUTC+3
06121824