| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | ±0h | |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | +1h | |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +3h | Becomes +4h on 25 Oct |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +8h | Becomes +9h on 25 Oct |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +9h | Becomes +10h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −5h | Becomes −4h on 24 Oct |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −8h | Becomes −7h on 24 Oct |
Porto, Portugal runs on UTC+1. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+0 in winter, UTC+1 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. The time difference between Porto and New York is 5 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 4 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 14:00–18:00 in Porto lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Porto and London currently share the same clock. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 9 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–18:00 in Porto lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Porto and Tokyo is 8 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hour a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–10:00 in Porto lines up with 17:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Lisbon, Dublin, Edinburgh. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Porto.
Porto (Portugal) is home to roughly 230K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:30, sunset at 19:18. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+0 in winter, UTC+1 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 41° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Portugal
Capital
Lisbon
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+1 · Europe/Lisbon
Coordinates
41.16°N, 8.63°W
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+351
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Portuguese
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Port wine has been aged in the lodges of Vila Nova de Gaia, across the river from Porto, since the 18th century, and the Douro was demarcated as a protected wine region in 1756 — one of the first anywhere in the world.
The clock: Portugal keeps UTC+0 in winter, an hour behind Spain across a land border. Porto and Vigo are 150 km apart and never agree on the time.
Porto lies at 8.6°W. Its time zone, UTC+0, is built around the prime meridian (0°). The 8.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 35 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:35 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 95 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:35.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 9m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 12m. The swing between them is 5h 56m. 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 Porto the sun comes up earliest on 15 June at 06:01, while the latest sunset waits until 29 June at 21:11. 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 Porto that civil twilight runs about 27 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 34 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 Porto, Portugal is Europe/Lisbon with a current UTC offset of UTC+1.
Porto has an estimated population of 230K and is located at coordinates 41.16°N, 8.63°W.
Porto gets 15h 9m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 12m on its shortest, averaging 12h 13m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Porto falls at about 12:35 on UTC+0 standard time, because the city sits 8.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Wine Named After the City: Port wine has been aged in the lodges of Vila Nova de Gaia, across the river from Porto, since the 18th century, and the Douro was demarcated as a protected wine region in 1756 — one of the first anywhere in the world.