| 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 |
Vatican City, Vatican City 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 Vatican City 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 Vatican City lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Vatican City 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 Vatican City lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Vatican City 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 Vatican City 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 Vatican City.
Vatican City (Vatican City) is home to roughly 800 people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:06, sunset at 18:54. 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 42° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Vatican City
Capital
Vatican City 👑
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Vatican
Coordinates
41.90°N, 12.45°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+39
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Italian, Latin
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Vatican City covers about 0.49 square kilometres with a population under 900, making it the smallest sovereign state in the world by both measures. Its Apostolic Archive (the former Secret Archives) holds roughly 85 kilometres of shelving.
The clock: Vatican City keeps UTC+1 with Italy. It is the only country with a functioning Latin-language ATM interface.
Vatican City lies at 12.5°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 2.5° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 10 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:10 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 70 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:10.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 14m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 8m. The swing between them is 6h 6m. 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 Vatican City the sun comes up earliest on 15 June at 05:34, while the latest sunset waits until 28 June at 20:49. 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 Vatican City that civil twilight runs about 28 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 34 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 Vatican City, Vatican City is Europe/Vatican with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Vatican City has an estimated population of 800 and is located at coordinates 41.90°N, 12.45°E. It is the capital city of Vatican City.
Vatican City gets 15h 14m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 8m on its shortest, averaging 12h 13m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Vatican City falls at about 12:10 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 2.5° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Smallest Country on Earth: Vatican City covers about 0.49 square kilometres with a population under 900, making it the smallest sovereign state in the world by both measures.