Time in Berlin, Germany

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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.
From Wikipedia

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.

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