Berlin, Germany
Current time in Germany
Time zone: CEST (UTC/GMT +02:00) — Europe/Berlin
| Time Zone: Central European Time (CET) = UTC+1 Daylight Saving Time Zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST) = UTC+2 Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany as well as one of its 16 states. With a population of approximately 3.6 million people, Berlin is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union. Located in northeastern Germany on the banks of Rivers Spree and Havel, it is the centre of the Berlin-Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, which has about 6 million residents from more than 180 nations. Due to its location in the European Plain, Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. Around one-third of the city's area is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers and lakes. |
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Current Time in other Cities of Germany
| Köln |
| Frankfurt am Main |
| Stuttgart |
| Düsseldorf |
| Großzschocher |
| Kleinzschocher |
| Dortmund |
| Dresden |
| Bremen |
| Nürnberg |
| Hannover |
| Leipzig |
| Duisburg |
| Wandsbek |
| Bochum |
| Bochum-Hordel |
| Wuppertal |
| Bielefeld |
| Bonn |
| Hamburg-Nord |
| Mannheim |
| Hamburg-Mitte |
| Marienthal |
| Karlsruhe |
| Wiesbaden |
| Gelsenkirchen |
| Eimsbüttel |
| Aachen |
| Mönchengladbach |
| Augsburg |
Berlin clocks, offsets and daylight saving
The local standard in Berlin is CEST — UTC+02:00, or 2 hours ahead of UTC. Systems that store time zones by name use Europe/Berlin for this part of the world.
Daylight saving applies here. Clocks next move back 1 hour on Sunday, 25 October 2026, putting Berlin on CET and changing its gap to every other zone listed below.
Berlin compared with major world cities
How Berlin lines up against other major centres at this moment — the numbers move when either side changes its clocks.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Berlin is 6 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Berlin is 9 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Berlin is 1 hour ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | same time as Berlin |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Berlin is 2 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Berlin is 3 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Berlin is 6 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Berlin is 7 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Berlin is 8 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Berlin is 5 hours ahead |
Scheduling calls with Berlin
Overlap of a normal working day, shown in Berlin time — outside these windows one side is off the clock.
| Paris | 09:00–17:00 in Berlin | 8 hours overlap |
| London | 10:00–17:00 in Berlin | 7 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 09:00–15:00 in Berlin | 6 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 09:00–13:30 in Berlin | 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.
Same local time as Berlin
These Germany cities also use Europe/Berlin, so their clocks read identically to Berlin at every moment of the year.
Köln Frankfurt am Main Stuttgart Düsseldorf Großzschocher Kleinzschocher Dortmund Dresden
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