| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −1h | |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | ±0h | |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +2h | Becomes +3h on 25 Oct |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +7h | Becomes +8h on 25 Oct |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +8h | Becomes +9h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −6h | Becomes −5h on 24 Oct |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −9h | Becomes −8h on 24 Oct |
Rotterdam, Netherlands runs on UTC+2. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+1 in winter, UTC+2 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. The time difference between Rotterdam and New York is 6 hours. 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 Rotterdam lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Rotterdam and London is 1 hour. 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 Rotterdam lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Rotterdam and Tokyo is 7 hours. 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 Rotterdam 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 Rotterdam.
Rotterdam (Netherlands) is home to roughly 650K people. Today brings about 11.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:41, sunset at 19:22. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+1 in winter, UTC+2 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 52° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Netherlands
Capital
Amsterdam
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Amsterdam
Coordinates
51.92°N, 4.48°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+31
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Dutch
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The bombing of 14 May 1940 destroyed roughly 2.6 square kilometres of central Rotterdam in under half an hour. What was rebuilt is the reason Rotterdam looks nothing like the rest of the Netherlands — it is a modern city because it had no choice.
The clock: Rotterdam keeps UTC+1 and runs Europe's largest port. Much of the city sits below sea level, which makes its tide tables a more consequential schedule than its clocks.
Rotterdam lies at 4.5°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 10.5° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 42 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:42 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 102 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:42.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 16h 43m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 7h 45m. The swing between them is 8h 58m. 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 Rotterdam the sun comes up earliest on 18 June at 05:22, while the latest sunset waits until 26 June at 22:06. 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 Rotterdam that civil twilight runs about 34 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 49 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 Rotterdam, Netherlands is Europe/Amsterdam with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Rotterdam has an estimated population of 650K and is located at coordinates 51.92°N, 4.48°E.
Rotterdam gets 16h 43m of daylight on its longest day and 7h 45m on its shortest, averaging 12h 17m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Rotterdam falls at about 12:42 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 10.5° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City That Had to Start Again: The bombing of 14 May 1940 destroyed roughly 2.6 square kilometres of central Rotterdam in under half an hour.