Current Time in Frankfurt, Germany

How Frankfurt Keeps Time

Frankfurt keeps CET, UTC+1. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Frankfurt; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.

Frankfurt runs on the Europe/Berlin zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC+1 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 28 March 2027, when clocks go forward one hour.

The sun rises in Frankfurt at 7:05 am today and sets at 5:13 pm — 10 hours 8 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:09 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (50.11, 8.68), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Frankfurt has about 16 hours 23 minutes of daylight in June and 8 hours 3 minutes in December. The difference is about 8 hours 20 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

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.

Frankfurt at a Glance

How Frankfurt Compares with Other Cities

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

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+1, the same as Frankfurt, because Germany keeps one zone nationally. Each page adds that city’s own sunrise, sunset and prayer times, which do differ.