Current Time in Lyon, France

How Lyon Keeps Time

Lyon keeps CEST, UTC+2. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Lyon; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.

Lyon runs on the Europe/Paris zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC+2 right now. The clocks change twice a year here: UTC+1 on standard time and UTC+2 while daylight saving is in force. The next change is on 25 October 2026, when clocks go back one hour.

The sun rises in Lyon at 8:09 am today and sets at 6:40 pm — 10 hours 30 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 1:24 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (45.76, 4.84), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Lyon has about 15 hours 43 minutes of daylight in June and 8 hours 40 minutes in December. The difference is about 7 hours 3 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

At the current civil offset, Lyon’s longitude corresponds to a difference of about 1 hour 41 minutes between zone time and longitude-based mean solar time. Today’s calculated solar noon is 1:24 pm rather than 12:00 on the clock.

The whole of France keeps one time, so the clock on this page is also the clock in Paris and in every other city listed below.

Lyon at a Glance

How Lyon Compares with Other Cities

Read the last column as the other city relative to Lyon. Where either place uses daylight saving, the gap changes for part of the year — the time difference calculator always shows today’s figure.

Nearby Listed Cities to Lyon

Distances are straight-line geographic distances between the coordinates used by the directory; road or rail distances will be longer.

Other Cities in France

All of these read UTC+2, the same as Lyon, because France keeps one zone nationally. Each page adds that city’s own sunrise, sunset and prayer times, which do differ.