Current Time in Ankara, Turkey

How Ankara Keeps Time

Ankara keeps Istanbul time, UTC+3. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Ankara; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.

Ankara runs on the Europe/Istanbul zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC+3 right now. There is no daylight saving here, so that offset holds all year and the difference to other places only changes when they move their own clocks.

The sun rises in Ankara at 7:08 am today and sets at 5:56 pm — 10 hours 48 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:32 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (39.93, 32.86), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Ankara has about 15 hours of daylight in June and 9 hours 20 minutes in December. The difference is about 5 hours 40 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

At the current civil offset, Ankara’s longitude corresponds to a difference of about 49 minutes between zone time and longitude-based mean solar time. Today’s calculated solar noon is 12:32 pm rather than 12:00 on the clock.

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

Ankara at a Glance

How Ankara Compares with Other Cities

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

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

Other Cities in Turkey

All of these read UTC+3, the same as Ankara, because Turkey keeps one zone nationally. Each page adds that city’s own sunrise, sunset and prayer times, which do differ.