| 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 |
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 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 Sarajevo 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 Sarajevo lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Sarajevo 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 Sarajevo lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Sarajevo 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 Sarajevo 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 Sarajevo.
Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) is home to roughly 275K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:42, sunset at 18:29. 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 44° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Capital
Sarajevo 👑
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Sarajevo
Coordinates
43.86°N, 18.41°E
Currency
BAM (KM)
Calling Code
+387
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Sarajevo was besieged from April 1992 to February 1996 — roughly 1,425 days, longer than the siege of Leningrad. An 800-metre tunnel dug under the airport runway was, for much of it, the city's only link to the outside.
The clock: Sarajevo keeps UTC+1. Its Gazi Husrev-beg clock tower still keeps Ottoman à la turca time, its hands reset regularly so that 12:00 falls at sunset — the only public clock in Europe kept this way.
Sarajevo lies at 18.4°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 3.4° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 14 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:46 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 46 minutes and pushing solar noon to 12:46.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 28m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 54m. The swing between them is 6h 34m. 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 Sarajevo the sun comes up earliest on 16 June at 05:03, while the latest sunset waits until 28 June at 20:33. 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 Sarajevo that civil twilight runs about 29 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 36 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 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina is Europe/Sarajevo with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Sarajevo has an estimated population of 275K and is located at coordinates 43.86°N, 18.41°E. It is the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Sarajevo gets 15h 28m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 54m on its shortest, averaging 12h 13m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Sarajevo falls at about 11:46 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 3.4° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Longest Siege of a Capital in Modern History: Sarajevo was besieged from April 1992 to February 1996 — roughly 1,425 days, longer than the siege of Leningrad. An 800-metre tunnel dug under the airport runway was, for much of it, the city's only link to the outside.