| 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 |
Utrecht, Netherlands 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 Utrecht 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 Utrecht lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Utrecht 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 Utrecht lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Utrecht 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 Utrecht 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 Utrecht.
Utrecht (Netherlands) is home to roughly 360K people. Today brings about 11.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:38, sunset at 19:20. 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 52° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Netherlands
Capital
Amsterdam
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Amsterdam
Coordinates
52.09°N, 5.12°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+31
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Dutch
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The bicycle park under Utrecht Centraal holds about 12,500 bikes, the largest such facility in the world. It has three storeys, real-time space counters and a cycle lane running through the middle of it.
The clock: Utrecht's Dom Tower, at 112 metres the tallest church tower in the Netherlands, has carried the city's bells since the 14th century — for most of that time, the only clock most residents could consult.
Utrecht lies at 5.1°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 9.9° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 40 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:40 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 100 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:40.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 16h 45m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 7h 44m. The swing between them is 9h 2m. 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 Utrecht the sun comes up earliest on 18 June at 05:18, while the latest sunset waits until 26 June at 22:04. 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 Utrecht that civil twilight runs about 34 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 49 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 Utrecht, Netherlands is Europe/Amsterdam with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Utrecht has an estimated population of 360K and is located at coordinates 52.09°N, 5.12°E.
Utrecht gets 16h 45m of daylight on its longest day and 7h 44m on its shortest, averaging 12h 17m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Utrecht falls at about 12:40 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 9.9° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Parking for Twelve Thousand Bicycles: The bicycle park under Utrecht Centraal holds about 12,500 bikes, the largest such facility in the world. It has three storeys, real-time space counters and a cycle lane running through the middle of it.