| 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 |
Oulu, Finland 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 Oulu 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 Oulu lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Oulu 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 Oulu lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Oulu 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 Oulu 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 Oulu.
Oulu (Finland) is home to roughly 210K people. Today brings about 11.4 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:24, sunset at 18:51. 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 65° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Finland
Capital
Helsinki
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Europe/Helsinki
Coordinates
65.01°N, 25.47°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+358
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Finnish, Swedish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Oulu has hosted the Air Guitar World Championships since 1996, on the stated principle that world peace will follow if everyone has an air guitar. It is also a serious technology centre, with Nokia's research roots here.
The clock: Oulu keeps UTC+2 at 65° north, where the sea freezes solid enough each winter that people cycle across it.
Oulu lies at 25.5°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 4.5° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 18 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:18 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 78 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:18.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 22h 4m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 3h 35m. The swing between them is 18h 30m. Close to the Arctic or Antarctic circle, the year swings hard between long light and long dark.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Oulu the sun comes up earliest on 21 June at 02:17, while the latest sunset waits until 23 June at 00:22. 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 Oulu that civil twilight runs about 49 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 87 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 Oulu, Finland is Europe/Helsinki with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Oulu has an estimated population of 210K and is located at coordinates 65.01°N, 25.47°E.
Oulu gets 22h 4m of daylight on its longest day and 3h 35m on its shortest, averaging 12h 34m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Oulu falls at about 12:18 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 4.5° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Air Guitar World Championships: Oulu has hosted the Air Guitar World Championships since 1996, on the stated principle that world peace will follow if everyone has an air guitar. It is also a serious technology centre, with Nokia's research roots here.