Bulgaria · EEST
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Plovdiv, Bulgaria runs on UTC+3. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 26 Oct. There is a 7-hour difference between Plovdiv and New York. 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 Plovdiv lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. There is a 2-hour difference between Plovdiv and London. 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 Plovdiv lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. There is a 6-hour difference between Plovdiv and Tokyo. 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 Plovdiv lines up with 15:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Moscow, Athens, Istanbul. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Plovdiv.
Practical Info
Plovdiv (Bulgaria) is home to roughly 345K people. Today brings about 15.2 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:48, sunset at 21:00. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 26 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 42° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Bulgaria
Capital
Sofia
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
EEST · Europe/Sofia
Coordinates
42.14°N, 24.75°E
Currency
BGN (лв)
Calling Code
+359
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Bulgarian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Plovdiv has been occupied for roughly 8,000 years, which makes it older than Rome, Athens or Constantinople and generally the oldest continuously inhabited city in Europe. Its Roman theatre, found after a landslide in the 1970s, still hosts performances.
The clock: Plovdiv keeps UTC+2. It was built on seven hills, one of which was quarried away for road stone in the 1930s.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
9h overlapSame timezone as your location.