Current Time in Istanbul, Turkey
Time and Sun Facts for Istanbul
- Local time
- 12:16 am
- Date
- Sunday, 25 October 2026
- Time zone
Europe/Istanbul- UTC offset
- UTC+3
- Daylight saving
- Not observed here — the offset is the same all year
- Sunrise
- 7:25 am
- Sunset
- 6:10 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 45 minutes
- Coordinates
- 41.01, 28.98
How Istanbul Keeps Time
Istanbul keeps Istanbul time, UTC+3. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Istanbul; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.
Istanbul 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 Istanbul at 7:25 am today and sets at 6:10 pm — 10 hours 45 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:48 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (41.01, 28.98), so they shift a little every day of the year.
On the two solstices, Istanbul has about 15 hours 8 minutes of daylight in June and 9 hours 13 minutes in December. The difference is about 5 hours 54 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.
At the current civil offset, Istanbul’s longitude corresponds to a difference of about 1 hour 4 minutes between zone time and longitude-based mean solar time. Today’s calculated solar noon is 12:48 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.
Istanbul at a Glance
| Coordinates | 41.0100, 28.9800 |
|---|---|
| IANA time zone | Europe/Istanbul |
| Current UTC offset | UTC+3 |
| Daylight saving | Not currently observed |
| Sunrise today | 7:25 am |
| Sunset today | 6:10 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:48 pm |
| Daylight today | 10 hours 45 minutes |
| Straight-line distance to Ankara | 349 km |
| Current clock difference vs Ankara | Same civil time |
How Istanbul Compares with Other Cities
Read the last column as the other city relative to Istanbul. Where either place uses daylight saving, the gap changes for part of the year — the time difference calculator always shows today’s figure.
| City | Local time | Compared with Istanbul |
|---|---|---|
| London | 10:16 pm | 2 hours behind |
| New York | 5:16 pm | 7 hours behind |
| Los Angeles | 2:16 pm | 10 hours behind |
| Dubai | 1:16 am | 1 hour ahead |
| Karachi | 2:16 am | 2 hours ahead |
| Singapore | 5:16 am | 5 hours ahead |
| Tokyo | 6:16 am | 6 hours ahead |
| Sydney | 8:16 am | 8 hours ahead |
Nearby Listed Cities to Istanbul
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 Istanbul, because Turkey keeps one zone nationally. Each page adds that city’s own sunrise, sunset and prayer times, which do differ.
Questions People Ask
Why is solar noon in Istanbul far from 12:00?
The current civil offset and the city longitude do not place mean solar noon at twelve on the clock. Today the calculated solar noon is 12:48 pm.
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