Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Current time in Germany
Time zone: CET (UTC/GMT +01:00) — Europe/Berlin
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -6 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +2 ) Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
Current Time in other Cities of Germany
Time zone in Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt am Main keeps CET (1 hour ahead of UTC, UTC+01:00). Its database zone is Europe/Berlin — worth knowing if you are scheduling anything that has to survive a daylight saving change.
This zone does shift. On Sunday, 28 March 2027 the clocks go forward 1 hour and Frankfurt am Main moves to CEST, so anything booked across that date needs checking.
Around 650,000 people live in Frankfurt am Main, making it the 2nd largest of the 96 Germany cities covered here.
How far ahead or behind is Frankfurt am Main?
Read this as: relative to each city below, Frankfurt am Main is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Frankfurt am Main is 5 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Frankfurt am Main is 8 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+00:00 | Frankfurt am Main is 1 hour ahead |
| Paris | UTC+01:00 | same time as Frankfurt am Main |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Frankfurt am Main is 3 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Frankfurt am Main is 4 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Frankfurt am Main is 7 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Frankfurt am Main is 8 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+11:00 | Frankfurt am Main is 10 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Frankfurt am Main is 4 hours ahead |
Best time to call Frankfurt am Main
Assuming a 09:00–17:00 day at both ends, these windows (in Frankfurt am Main local time) fall inside working hours for both cities.
| Paris | 09:00–17:00 in Frankfurt am Main | 8 hours overlap |
| London | 10:00–17:00 in Frankfurt am Main | 7 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 09:00–14:00 in Frankfurt am Main | 5 hours overlap |
| Sao Paulo | 13:00–17:00 in Frankfurt am Main | 4 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with Los Angeles, Tokyo or Sydney, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
Same local time as Frankfurt am Main
These Germany cities also use Europe/Berlin, so their clocks read identically to Frankfurt am Main at every moment of the year.
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