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Plovdiv

UTC+3

Bulgaria · EEST

Summer
03:44:11Live

Tue, 15 Sept 2026

00:00↑ 05:48↓ 21:0024:00
Sunrise
05:48
Sunset
21:00
Daylight
15.2hrs
Population
345K
Season
Summer
Next full moon
14 Jul
Buck Moon

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

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?

Europe's Oldest Continuously Inhabited City

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

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Working Hours

9h overlap

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