Bosnia and Herzegovina · CEST
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
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: 26 Oct. There is a 6-hour difference between Sarajevo and New York. 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. There is a 1-hour difference between Sarajevo and London. 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. There is a 7-hour difference between Sarajevo and Tokyo. 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.
Practical Info
Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) is home to roughly 275K people. Today brings about 15.4 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:06, sunset at 20:30. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+1 in winter, UTC+2 in summer. Next change: 26 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 44° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
Capital
Sarajevo 👑
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
CEST · 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. A 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 runs on lunar time, its hands reset regularly so that 12:00 falls at sunset — the only public clock in Europe kept this way.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
8h overlap