Current Time in Paris, France

How Paris Keeps Time

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

Paris 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 Paris at 8:25 am today and sets at 6:44 pm — 10 hours 19 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 1:34 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (48.86, 2.35), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Paris has about 16 hours 11 minutes of daylight in June and 8 hours 15 minutes in December. The difference is about 7 hours 56 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

At the current civil offset, Paris’s longitude corresponds to a difference of about 1 hour 51 minutes between zone time and longitude-based mean solar time. Today’s calculated solar noon is 1:34 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.

Paris at a Glance

How Paris Compares with Other Cities

Read the last column as the other city relative to Paris. 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 Paris

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 Paris, because France keeps one zone nationally. Each page adds that city’s own sunrise, sunset and prayer times, which do differ.