| 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 |
Varna, Bulgaria 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 Varna 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 Varna lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Varna 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 Varna lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Varna 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 Varna 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 Varna.
Varna (Bulgaria) is home to roughly 335K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:04, sunset at 18:52. 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 43° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Bulgaria
Capital
Sofia
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Europe/Sofia
Coordinates
43.21°N, 27.91°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+359
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Bulgarian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Varna necropolis, found by a digger operator in 1972, held around 3,000 gold objects dated to roughly 4,600–4,200 BC — the oldest processed gold ever discovered. One grave alone contained more gold than every other site of that era combined.
The clock: Varna keeps UTC+2 on the Black Sea. Its beaches face east, which makes it one of the few Bulgarian cities where the sun rises over the water.
Varna lies at 27.9°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 2.1° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 8 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:08 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 68 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:08.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 23m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 59m. The swing between them is 6h 25m. 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 Varna the sun comes up earliest on 16 June at 05:28, while the latest sunset waits until 28 June at 20:52. 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 Varna that civil twilight runs about 28 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 36 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 Varna, Bulgaria is Europe/Sofia with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Varna has an estimated population of 335K and is located at coordinates 43.21°N, 27.91°E.
Varna gets 15h 23m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 59m on its shortest, averaging 12h 13m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Varna falls at about 12:08 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 2.1° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Oldest Worked Gold in the World: The Varna necropolis, found by a digger operator in 1972, held around 3,000 gold objects dated to roughly 4,600–4,200 BC — the oldest processed gold ever discovered.