| 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 |
Riga, Latvia 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 Riga 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 Riga lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Riga 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 Riga lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Riga 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 Riga 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 Riga.
Riga (Latvia) is home to roughly 605K people. Today brings about 11.6 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:25, sunset at 19:02. 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 57° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Latvia
Capital
Riga 👑
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Europe/Riga
Coordinates
56.95°N, 24.11°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+371
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Latvian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Riga holds roughly 800 Art Nouveau buildings, the densest concentration anywhere in the world — around a third of the buildings in the centre. Most went up in a fifteen-year boom before the First World War.
The clock: Riga keeps UTC+2. Its Central Market occupies five former Zeppelin hangars, which is the single most literal example of postwar Latvian resourcefulness.
Riga lies at 24.1°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 5.9° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 24 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:24 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 84 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:24.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 17h 53m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 6h 44m. The swing between them is 11h 9m. 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 Riga the sun comes up earliest on 19 June at 04:28, while the latest sunset waits until 25 June at 22:22. 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 Riga that civil twilight runs about 38 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 68 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 Riga, Latvia is Europe/Riga with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Riga has an estimated population of 605K and is located at coordinates 56.95°N, 24.11°E. It is the capital city of Latvia.
Riga gets 17h 53m of daylight on its longest day and 6h 44m on its shortest, averaging 12h 20m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Riga falls at about 12:24 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 5.9° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Third of the City Centre Is Art Nouveau: Riga holds roughly 800 Art Nouveau buildings, the densest concentration anywhere in the world — around a third of the buildings in the centre. Most went up in a fifteen-year boom before the First World War.