Current Time in Rome, Italy

How Rome Keeps Time

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

Rome runs on the Europe/Rome 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 Rome at 7:32 am today and sets at 6:15 pm — 10 hours 42 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:54 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (41.90, 12.50), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Rome has about 15 hours 14 minutes of daylight in June and 9 hours 7 minutes in December. The difference is about 6 hours 6 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

At the current civil offset, Rome’s longitude corresponds to a difference of about 1 hour 10 minutes between zone time and longitude-based mean solar time. Today’s calculated solar noon is 12:54 pm rather than 12:00 on the clock.

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

Rome at a Glance

How Rome Compares with Other Cities

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

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

Other Cities in Italy

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