| 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 |
Tirana, Albania 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 Tirana 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 Tirana lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Tirana 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 Tirana lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Tirana 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 Tirana 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 Tirana.
Tirana (Albania) is home to roughly 560K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:36, sunset at 18:25. 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 41° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Albania
Capital
Tirana 👑
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Tirane
Coordinates
41.33°N, 19.82°E
Currency
ALL (L)
Calling Code
+355
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Albanian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Enver Hoxha's government built somewhere around 170,000 concrete bunkers across Albania between the 1960s and 1980s — roughly one for every seventeen people. Two of the largest, under Tirana, are now museums.
The clock: Tirana keeps UTC+1. Private cars were banned in Albania until 1991, so the city's traffic problem is younger than most of its drivers.
Tirana lies at 19.8°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 4.8° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 19 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:41 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 41 minutes and pushing solar noon to 12:41.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 10m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 11m. The swing between them is 5h 59m. 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 Tirana the sun comes up earliest on 15 June at 05:07, while the latest sunset waits until 29 June at 20:18. 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 Tirana that civil twilight runs about 28 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 34 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 Tirana, Albania is Europe/Tirane with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Tirana has an estimated population of 560K and is located at coordinates 41.33°N, 19.82°E. It is the capital city of Albania.
Tirana gets 15h 10m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 11m on its shortest, averaging 12h 13m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Tirana falls at about 11:41 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 4.8° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Country That Built 170,000 Bunkers: Enver Hoxha's government built somewhere around 170,000 concrete bunkers across Albania between the 1960s and 1980s — roughly one for every seventeen people. Two of the largest, under Tirana, are now museums.