Blackpool, United Kingdom
Current time in United Kingdom
Time zone: BST (UTC/GMT +01:00) — Europe/London
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -7 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +1 ) Blackpool, United Kingdom |
Current Time in other Cities of United Kingdom
| Sheffield |
| Leeds |
| Bristol |
| Cardiff |
| Leicester |
| Leicester |
| Bradford |
| Belfast |
| Coventry |
| Brent |
| Birkenhead |
| Nottingham |
| Islington |
| Reading |
| Kingston upon Hull |
| Preston |
| Swansea |
| Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Southend-on-Sea |
| Brighton |
| Derby |
| Southampton |
| Wolverhampton |
| Plymouth |
| Stoke-on-Trent |
| Milton Keynes |
| City of Westminster |
| Northampton |
| Oldham |
| Bexley |
What time zone is Blackpool in?
Blackpool keeps BST (1 hour ahead of UTC, UTC+01:00). Its database zone is Europe/London — worth knowing if you are scheduling anything that has to survive a daylight saving change.
Daylight saving applies here. Clocks next move back 1 hour on Sunday, 25 October 2026, putting Blackpool on GMT and changing its gap to every other zone listed below.
Around 145,007 people live in Blackpool, making it the 62nd largest of the 102 United Kingdom cities covered here.
Blackpool compared with major world cities
Read this as: relative to each city below, Blackpool is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Blackpool is 5 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Blackpool is 8 hours ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Blackpool is 1 hour behind |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Blackpool is 3 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Blackpool is 4 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Blackpool is 7 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Blackpool is 8 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Blackpool is 9 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Blackpool is 4 hours ahead |
When Blackpool and other cities overlap
Assuming a 09:00–17:00 day at both ends, these windows (in Blackpool local time) fall inside working hours for both cities.
| Paris | 09:00–16:00 in Blackpool | 7 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 09:00–14:00 in Blackpool | 5 hours overlap |
| Sao Paulo | 13:00–17:00 in Blackpool | 4 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 09:00–12:30 in Blackpool | 3.5 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with Los Angeles, Tokyo or Sydney, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
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