| 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 |
Tromsø, Norway 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 Tromsø 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 Tromsø lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Tromsø 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 Tromsø lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Tromsø 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 Tromsø 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 Tromsø.
Tromsø (Norway) is home to roughly 78K people. Today brings about 11.3 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:55, sunset at 18:12. 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 70° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Norway
Capital
Oslo
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Oslo
Coordinates
69.65°N, 18.96°E
Currency
NOK (kr)
Calling Code
+47
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Norwegian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Tromsø sits at 69.6° north, so the sun stays below the horizon from late November to mid-January and never sets from mid-May to late July. It has the world's northernmost university and cathedral, and Mack, long billed as the northernmost brewery.
The clock: Tromsø keeps UTC+1 and still observes daylight saving, which during the midnight sun changes nothing whatsoever.
Tromsø lies at 19.0°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 4.0° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 16 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:44 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 44 minutes and pushing solar noon to 12:44.
Tromsø is inside the polar circle. Across 2026 the sun never sets on 69 days around midsummer, and never rises on 48 days around midwinter. Beyond the polar circle the sun stops rising and setting daily for part of the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Tromsø that civil twilight runs about 60 minutes at the equinox.
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 Tromsø, Norway is Europe/Oslo with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Tromsø has an estimated population of 78K and is located at coordinates 69.65°N, 18.96°E.
Tromsø gets 24h of daylight on its longest day and 0 hours on its shortest, averaging 12h 35m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Tromsø falls at about 11:44 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 4.0° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Two Months Without a Sunrise: Tromsø sits at 69.6° north, so the sun stays below the horizon from late November to mid-January and never sets from mid-May to late July.