| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −2h | Becomes −3h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −1h | Becomes −2h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +1h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +6h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +7h | Becomes +8h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −7h | Becomes −8h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −10h | Becomes −11h on 1 Nov |
Van, Turkey runs on UTC+3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Van 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 Van lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Van 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 Van lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Van 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 Van lines up with 15:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Moscow, Istanbul, Nairobi. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Van.
Van (Turkey) is home to roughly 1.1M people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:01, sunset at 17:51. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 38° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Turkey
Capital
Ankara
Continent
Europe & Asia
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Europe/Istanbul
Coordinates
38.49°N, 43.38°E
Currency
TRY (₺)
Calling Code
+90
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Turkish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Lake Van covers about 3,570 square kilometres with no outlet, which has made it strongly alkaline — soda-rich enough that it was once used for washing. Only one fish species, the inci kefali, can live in it.
The clock: Van keeps UTC+3. The Van cat, with its odd-coloured eyes, swims voluntarily — unusual enough that the university runs a research house for the breed.
Van lies at 43.4°E. Its time zone, UTC+3, is built around the 45°E meridian. The 1.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 6 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:06 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+3 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 51m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 29m. The swing between them is 5h 23m. 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 Van the sun comes up earliest on 14 June at 04:42, while the latest sunset waits until 29 June at 19:35. 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 Van that civil twilight runs about 26 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 32 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 Van, Turkey is Europe/Istanbul with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Van has an estimated population of 1.1M and is located at coordinates 38.49°N, 43.38°E.
Van gets 14h 51m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 29m on its shortest, averaging 12h 12m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Van falls at about 12:06 on UTC+3 standard time, because the city sits 1.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Lake So Alkaline It Was Used for Washing: Lake Van covers about 3,570 square kilometres with no outlet, which has made it strongly alkaline — soda-rich enough that it was once used for washing. Only one fish species, the inci kefali, can live in it.