Italy · CEST
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Palermo, Italy 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 Palermo 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 Palermo lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. There is a 1-hour difference between Palermo 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 Palermo lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. There is a 7-hour difference between Palermo 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 Palermo 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 Palermo.
Practical Info
Palermo (Italy) is home to roughly 630K people. Today brings about 14.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:48, sunset at 20:36. 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 38° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Italy
Capital
Rome
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
CEST · Europe/Rome
Coordinates
38.12°N, 13.36°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+39
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Italian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Palermo Cathedral has a brass meridian line set into its floor, installed in 1801, with a hole in the dome that drops a disc of sunlight onto it at solar noon. Before standardised time, this was how the city set its clocks.
The clock: Palermo now keeps UTC+1 like the rest of Italy, though at 13° east its true solar noon arrives around 12:08 in winter — the meridian line and the clock have not agreed since 1893.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
8h overlap