Current Time in Berlin, Germany

How Berlin Keeps Time

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

Berlin runs on the Europe/Berlin 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 Berlin at 7:48 am today and sets at 5:52 pm — 10 hours 5 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:50 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (52.52, 13.40), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Berlin has about 16 hours 50 minutes of daylight in June and 7 hours 39 minutes in December. The difference is about 9 hours 11 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

At the current civil offset, Berlin’s longitude corresponds to a difference of about 1 hour 6 minutes between zone time and longitude-based mean solar time. Today’s calculated solar noon is 12:50 pm rather than 12:00 on the clock.

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

Berlin at a Glance

How Berlin Compares with Other Cities

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

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

Other Cities in Germany

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