Local time in Ukraine
Ukraine
Current local time in Ukraine — this country spans 2 time zones. The clocks below update live in your browser.
Time difference — Kyiv
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Differences are relative to Kyiv, Ukraine, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Ukraine
- Standard label
- EET (UTC+2)
- Standard offset (Kyiv)
- UTC+2
- Daylight saving time
- Observed
- Number of time zones
- 2
- Capital
- Kyiv
- IANA zones
- Europe/Kyiv, Europe/Simferopol
Ukraine uses EET (UTC+2) 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+2 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 Ukraine.
Sunrise and sunset in Kyiv
At 50.5° north, Kyiv gets 16 h 27 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 8 h 00 min around the December solstice — a difference of 8 h 27 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 07:48 | 12:10 | 16:32 | 8 h 44 min |
| 21 February | 07:00 | 12:13 | 17:25 | 10 h 26 min |
| 21 March | 06:00 | 12:06 | 18:12 | 12 h 12 min |
| 21 April | 05:53 | 12:57 | 20:01 | 14 h 08 min |
| 21 May | 05:04 | 12:55 | 20:47 | 15 h 43 min |
| 21 June | 04:47 | 13:00 | 21:14 | 16 h 27 min |
| 21 July | 05:11 | 13:05 | 20:59 | 15 h 48 min |
| 21 August | 05:56 | 13:02 | 20:08 | 14 h 13 min |
| 21 September | 06:43 | 12:52 | 19:01 | 12 h 18 min |
| 21 October | 07:30 | 12:43 | 17:56 | 10 h 26 min |
| 21 November | 07:22 | 11:45 | 16:07 | 8 h 45 min |
| 21 December | 07:57 | 11:57 | 15:57 | 8 h 00 min |
Calculated for Kyiv (50.45°, 30.52°; 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 Ukraine (Europe/Kyiv)
Clocks in Kyiv change twice a year. Clock changes in 2026 and 2027, in local time:
- ForwardSunday 29 March 2026
Clocks go forward 1 hour: 03:00 becomes 04:00 (UTC+2 → UTC+3) - BackSunday 25 October 2026
Clocks go back 1 hour: 04:00 becomes 03:00 (UTC+3 → UTC+2) - ForwardSunday 28 March 2027
Clocks go forward 1 hour: 03:00 becomes 04:00 (UTC+2 → UTC+3) - BackSunday 31 October 2027
Clocks go back 1 hour: 04:00 becomes 03:00 (UTC+3 → UTC+2)
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.