| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −2h | |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −1h | |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +1h | Becomes +2h on 25 Oct |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +6h | Becomes +7h on 25 Oct |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +7h | Becomes +8h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −7h | Becomes −6h on 24 Oct |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −10h | Becomes −9h on 24 Oct |
Turku, Finland runs on UTC+3. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. The time difference between Turku and New York is 7 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 16:00–18:00 in Turku lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Turku and London is 2 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 7 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 11:00–18:00 in Turku lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Turku and Tokyo is 6 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–12:00 in Turku lines up with 15:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Athens, Cairo, Beirut. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Turku.
Turku (Finland) is home to roughly 200K people. Today brings about 11.6 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:34, sunset at 19:07. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 60° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Finland
Capital
Helsinki
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Europe/Helsinki
Coordinates
60.45°N, 22.27°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+358
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Finnish, Swedish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Turku was Finland's capital until 1812, when Russia moved it to Helsinki to reduce Swedish influence. The 1827 fire, which destroyed about three quarters of the city, settled the matter permanently.
The clock: Turku keeps UTC+2 and declares Christmas Peace from its Old Great Square at noon on 24 December — a tradition running since the 1320s and broadcast nationally.
Turku lies at 22.3°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 7.7° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 31 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:31 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 91 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:31.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 19h 3m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 5h 43m. The swing between them is 13h 20m. Close to the Arctic or Antarctic circle, the year swings hard between long light and long dark.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Turku the sun comes up earliest on 20 June at 04:01, while the latest sunset waits until 24 June at 23:04. 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 Turku that civil twilight runs about 42 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 129 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 Turku, Finland is Europe/Helsinki with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Turku has an estimated population of 200K and is located at coordinates 60.45°N, 22.27°E.
Turku gets 19h 3m of daylight on its longest day and 5h 43m on its shortest, averaging 12h 24m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Turku falls at about 12:31 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 7.7° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Finland's First Capital: Turku was Finland's capital until 1812, when Russia moved it to Helsinki to reduce Swedish influence. The 1827 fire, which destroyed about three quarters of the city, settled the matter permanently.