Current time in Bucharest

Time zone in Bucharest

Bucharest is in Romania and uses the Europe/Bucharest time zone. Bucharest observes daylight saving time. It uses Eastern European Standard Time (UTC+02:00) in the standard-time part of the year and Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00) during summer time.

Sunrise and sunset in Bucharest

Sun and clock in Bucharest

Bucharest lies about 4° west of the meridian its time zone is built around, so the sun runs late against the clock. Averaged over the year, solar noon does not arrive until 12:16 in standard time, which makes mornings darker and evenings lighter than the clock alone would suggest. Summer time moves that an hour later still, to about 13:16.

Daylight through the year in Bucharest

At 44.4°N latitude, Bucharest sees its longest day around the June solstice, when the sun is above the horizon for about 15 h 32 m. The shortest day comes six months later at roughly 8 h 50 m, a swing of about 6 h 43 m between midsummer and midwinter.

Mid-latitude cities like Bucharest get the full seasonal cycle, with the longest and shortest days 6 h 43 m apart.

On the June solstice the sun rises in Bucharest at about 05:31 and sets at about 21:03; on the December solstice it rises at about 07:48 and sets at about 16:38.

How these figures are worked out

When the clocks change in Bucharest

Bucharest follows the European rule: clocks go forward on the last Sunday in March and back on the last Sunday in October, both at 01:00 UTC, so every country on the rule changes at the same instant.

The next two changes in Bucharest:

Of the cities compared further down this page, New York, London and Sydney do change their clocks, so their difference from Bucharest moves by an hour twice a year; Dubai, New Delhi, Singapore and Tokyo do not, so those differences never change.

Calling Bucharest from another time zone

A working day of roughly 09:00 to 17:00 in Bucharest corresponds to 07:00–15:00 UTC. To find the equivalent window where you are, add your own offset to those hours: somewhere on UTC+00:00 would be looking at 07:00–15:00.

Taking a working day as 09:00 to 17:00 in each place:

• New York overlaps for only 1 hours, from 16:00 to 17:00 Bucharest time — late in the day at one end and early at the other.
• London’s working day overlaps with Bucharest’s for 6 hours, from 11:00 to 17:00 Bucharest time.
• Tokyo overlaps for only 2 hours, from 09:00 to 11:00 Bucharest time — late in the day at one end and early at the other.

These windows use the offsets in force on 2026-10-09; where one side observes daylight saving and the other does not, they move by an hour twice a year.

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Bucharest compared with other cities

• Bucharest → New York
• Bucharest → London
• Bucharest → Dubai
• Bucharest → New Delhi
• Bucharest → Singapore
• Bucharest → Tokyo
• Bucharest → Sydney

Nearby cities

Bucharest is the only place in this directory on Europe/Bucharest; the nearby cities listed below all keep different zones. The nearest listed city on a different zone identifier is Istanbul, about 450 km away on Europe/Istanbul, which shows the same clock time as Bucharest today.

• Istanbul
• Budapest
• Athens
• Kyiv
• Vienna
• Warsaw
• Rome
• Prague

Time zone rules: IANA tz database release 2026c, applied when this page was generated on 2026-10-09. Sun times: NOAA solar equations for 44.43°N, 26.10°E, flat horizon at sea level.

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