Norway · CEST
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Stavanger, Norway 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 Stavanger 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 Stavanger lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. There is a 1-hour difference between Stavanger 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 Stavanger lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. There is a 7-hour difference between Stavanger 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 Stavanger 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 Stavanger.
Practical Info
Stavanger (Norway) is home to roughly 145K people. Today brings about 18.5 hours of daylight: sunrise at 04:24, sunset at 22:54. 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 59° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Norway
Capital
Oslo
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
CEST · Europe/Oslo
Coordinates
58.97°N, 5.73°E
Currency
NOK (kr)
Calling Code
+47
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Norwegian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Preikestolen is a flat cliff about 604 metres above the Lysefjord, with no railings. It draws a few hundred thousand hikers a year, most of them in a ten-week summer window.
The clock: Stavanger keeps UTC+1 and is Norway's oil capital — the industry that transformed the country's economy was run from here after the 1969 Ekofisk discovery.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
8h overlap