Dortmund, Germany
Current time in Germany
Time zone: CEST (UTC/GMT +02:00) — Europe/Berlin
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -6 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +2 ) Dortmund, Germany |
Current Time in other Cities of Germany
| Köln |
| Frankfurt am Main |
| Stuttgart |
| Düsseldorf |
| Großzschocher |
| Kleinzschocher |
| 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 |
| Altona |
Time zone in Dortmund
Dortmund keeps CEST (2 hours ahead of UTC, UTC+02:00). Its database zone is Europe/Berlin — worth knowing if you are scheduling anything that has to survive a daylight saving change.
Expect a clock change on Sunday, 25 October 2026: Dortmund switches to CET, moving back by 1 hour. Until that date the UTC+02:00 offset above holds.
Around 588,462 people live in Dortmund, making it the 7th largest of the 96 Germany cities covered here.
Dortmund compared with major world cities
Live differences from Dortmund, calculated from each zone's rules as they stand today rather than a fixed table.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Dortmund is 6 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Dortmund is 9 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Dortmund is 1 hour ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | same time as Dortmund |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Dortmund is 2 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Dortmund is 3 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Dortmund is 6 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Dortmund is 7 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Dortmund is 8 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Dortmund is 5 hours ahead |
Best time to call Dortmund
Overlap of a normal working day, shown in Dortmund time — outside these windows one side is off the clock.
| Paris | 09:00–17:00 in Dortmund | 8 hours overlap |
| London | 10:00–17:00 in Dortmund | 7 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 09:00–15:00 in Dortmund | 6 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 09:00–13:30 in Dortmund | 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 Dortmund's time zone
Same zone, same time — each of these sits on Europe/Berlin alongside Dortmund, including through any clock change.
Köln Frankfurt am Main Stuttgart Düsseldorf Großzschocher Kleinzschocher Dresden Bremen
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