| 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 |
Nicosia, Cyprus 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 Nicosia 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 Nicosia lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Nicosia 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 Nicosia lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Nicosia 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 Nicosia 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 Nicosia.
Nicosia (Cyprus) is home to roughly 330K people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:40, sunset at 18:32. 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 35° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Cyprus
Capital
Nicosia 👑
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Asia/Nicosia
Coordinates
35.17°N, 33.36°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+357
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Greek, Turkish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Nicosia has been split by a buffer zone since 1974, making it the only divided capital city left in the world. The Green Line runs through the middle of the old town; in places the two sides are a few metres apart.
The clock: the two halves have not always agreed on the hour. In 2016 the north briefly stayed on summer time year-round while the south changed, putting a one-hour gap across a street for several months.
Nicosia lies at 33.4°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 3.4° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 13 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:47 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 47 minutes and pushing solar noon to 12:47.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 32m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 47m. The swing between them is 4h 45m. 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 Nicosia the sun comes up earliest on 13 June at 05:31, while the latest sunset waits until 30 June at 20:05. 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 Nicosia that civil twilight runs about 25 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 30 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 Nicosia, Cyprus is Asia/Nicosia with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Nicosia has an estimated population of 330K and is located at coordinates 35.17°N, 33.36°E. It is the capital city of Cyprus.
Nicosia gets 14h 32m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 47m on its shortest, averaging 12h 11m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Nicosia falls at about 11:47 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 3.4° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Last Divided Capital: Nicosia has been split by a buffer zone since 1974, making it the only divided capital city left in the world. The Green Line runs through the middle of the old town; in places the two sides are a few metres apart.