Sweden · CEST
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Uppsala, Sweden 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 Uppsala 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 Uppsala lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. There is a 1-hour difference between Uppsala 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 Uppsala lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. There is a 7-hour difference between Uppsala 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 Uppsala 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 Uppsala.
Practical Info
Uppsala (Sweden) is home to roughly 180K people. Today brings about 18.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 03:30, sunset at 22:18. 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 60° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Sweden
Capital
Stockholm
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
CEST · Europe/Stockholm
Coordinates
59.86°N, 17.64°E
Currency
SEK (kr)
Calling Code
+46
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Swedish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Anders Celsius proposed his temperature scale in Uppsala in 1742 — originally with 0 as the boiling point and 100 as freezing, the reverse of today's. It was inverted after his death. Linnaeus also worked here, devising the naming system biology still uses.
The clock: Uppsala keeps UTC+1. Its cathedral, at 118.7 metres, is the tallest church in Scandinavia.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
8h overlap