Elbasan, Albania
Current time in Albania
Time zone: CEST (UTC/GMT +02:00) — Europe/Tirane
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -6 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +2 ) Elbasan, Albania |
Elbasan time zone and UTC offset
Elbasan keeps CEST (2 hours ahead of UTC, UTC+02:00). Its database zone is Europe/Tirane — worth knowing if you are scheduling anything that has to survive a daylight saving change.
This zone does shift. On Sunday, 25 October 2026 the clocks go back 1 hour and Elbasan moves to CET, so anything booked across that date needs checking.
With a population near 100,903, Elbasan comes in 2nd of the 2 Albania cities we list.
Elbasan compared with major world cities
Read this as: relative to each city below, Elbasan is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Elbasan is 6 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Elbasan is 9 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Elbasan is 1 hour ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | same time as Elbasan |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Elbasan is 2 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Elbasan is 3 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Elbasan is 6 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Elbasan is 7 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Elbasan is 8 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Elbasan is 5 hours ahead |
Best time to call Elbasan
Where the two working days actually meet, expressed in Elbasan local time.
| Paris | 09:00–17:00 in Elbasan | 8 hours overlap |
| London | 10:00–17:00 in Elbasan | 7 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 09:00–15:00 in Elbasan | 6 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 09:00–13:30 in Elbasan | 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.
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