Time in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Current time in The Netherlands

Time zone: CEST (UTC/GMT +02:00) — Europe/Amsterdam

Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -6 H
Time zone: (UTC/GMT +2 ) Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Amsterdam time zone and UTC offset

Local time here is CEST, which sits 2 hours ahead of UTC, written UTC+02:00. The canonical zone name is Europe/Amsterdam, and that is what to pick from a time zone dropdown.

This zone does shift. On Sunday, 25 October 2026 the clocks go back 1 hour and Amsterdam moves to CET, so anything booked across that date needs checking.

With a population near 741,636, Amsterdam comes in 1st of the 25 The Netherlands cities we list.

Amsterdam compared with major world cities

How Amsterdam lines up against other major centres at this moment — the numbers move when either side changes its clocks.

New York UTC-04:00 Amsterdam is 6 hours ahead
Los Angeles UTC-07:00 Amsterdam is 9 hours ahead
London UTC+01:00 Amsterdam is 1 hour ahead
Paris UTC+02:00 same time as Amsterdam
Dubai UTC+04:00 Amsterdam is 2 hours behind
Mumbai UTC+05:30 Amsterdam is 3 hours 30 minutes behind
Shanghai UTC+08:00 Amsterdam is 6 hours behind
Tokyo UTC+09:00 Amsterdam is 7 hours behind
Sydney UTC+10:00 Amsterdam is 8 hours behind
Sao Paulo UTC-03:00 Amsterdam is 5 hours ahead

Best time to call Amsterdam

Usable call slots from Amsterdam, taking business hours as 09:00 to 17:00 in both places.

Paris 09:00–17:00 in Amsterdam 8 hours overlap
London 10:00–17:00 in Amsterdam 7 hours overlap
Dubai 09:00–15:00 in Amsterdam 6 hours overlap
Mumbai 09:00–13:30 in Amsterdam 4.5 hours overlap

No shared working window exists with Los Angeles or Sydney, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.

Sharing Amsterdam's time zone

Same zone, same time — each of these sits on Europe/Amsterdam alongside Amsterdam, including through any clock change.

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