Local time in Germany
Federal Republic of Germany
Current local time in Germany — this country spans 2 time zones. The clocks below update live in your browser.
Germany spans 2 IANA time zones in total; the 1 principal zones (one per UTC offset) are shown above.
Time difference — Berlin
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Differences are relative to Berlin, Germany, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Germany
- Standard label
- CET (UTC+1)
- Standard offset (Berlin)
- UTC+1
- Daylight saving time
- Observed
- Number of time zones
- 2
- Capital
- Berlin
- IANA zones
- Europe/Berlin, Europe/Zurich
Germany uses CET (UTC+1) as its standard time across 2 IANA zones. Clocks move forward in summer for daylight saving time, so the local offset alternates seasonally around the UTC+1 standard. Times on this page are computed in your browser from the IANA time zone database, so they always match the real current time in Germany.
Sunrise and sunset in Berlin
At 52.5° north, Berlin gets 16 h 50 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 7 h 39 min around the December solstice — a difference of 9 h 11 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 08:05 | 12:18 | 16:32 | 8 h 27 min |
| 21 February | 07:12 | 12:21 | 17:30 | 10 h 18 min |
| 21 March | 06:08 | 12:15 | 18:21 | 12 h 13 min |
| 21 April | 05:57 | 13:06 | 20:15 | 14 h 18 min |
| 21 May | 05:03 | 13:04 | 21:05 | 16 h 02 min |
| 21 June | 04:44 | 13:09 | 21:34 | 16 h 50 min |
| 21 July | 05:10 | 13:13 | 21:17 | 16 h 07 min |
| 21 August | 05:59 | 13:11 | 20:22 | 14 h 22 min |
| 21 September | 06:51 | 13:01 | 19:10 | 12 h 19 min |
| 21 October | 07:43 | 12:52 | 18:01 | 10 h 18 min |
| 21 November | 07:39 | 11:53 | 16:07 | 8 h 28 min |
| 21 December | 08:16 | 12:05 | 15:55 | 7 h 39 min |
Calculated for Berlin (52.52°, 13.38°; coordinates from Wikidata) with the standard solar-position formulas used by NOAA, for a sea-level horizon. Results are accurate to about a minute; hills, buildings and altitude shift what you actually see. Times change by only a minute or two from year to year.
Daylight saving time in Germany (Europe/Berlin)
Clocks in Berlin change twice a year. Clock changes in 2026 and 2027, in local time:
- ForwardSunday 29 March 2026
Clocks go forward 1 hour: 02:00 becomes 03:00 (UTC+1 → UTC+2) - BackSunday 25 October 2026
Clocks go back 1 hour: 03:00 becomes 02:00 (UTC+2 → UTC+1) - ForwardSunday 28 March 2027
Clocks go forward 1 hour: 02:00 becomes 03:00 (UTC+1 → UTC+2) - BackSunday 31 October 2027
Clocks go back 1 hour: 03:00 becomes 02:00 (UTC+2 → UTC+1)
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.