Current time in Paris

Time zone in Paris

Sunrise and sunset in Paris

Sun and clock in Paris

Averaged over the year, solar noon in Paris comes at 12:51, because the city lies about 13° west of the meridian its clock is set to.

Daylight through the year in Paris

Vancouver, at 49.3°N, lies on almost the same parallel as Paris, so its days stay within 4 minutes of Paris’s all year; its clock is 8 h or 9 h behind Paris, depending on the date.

How these figures are worked out

When the clocks change in Paris

Paris 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.

These dates have applied since 1996. In 1995 the clocks went forward on March 26 and back on September 24. The first time the record has Paris’s clocks put forward and later back again is 1916. The record opens with Paris’s own local mean time, UTC+00:09:21, kept until 1911.

Calling Paris from another time zone

At 09:00 on Monday, November 9, 2026 in Paris, Honolulu and Anchorage are still on Sunday. By 17:00 on Friday, 20 listed cities, including Shanghai and Beijing, have already reached Saturday.

Paris compared with other cities

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

Nearby cities

Beyond Paris’s own identifier, the nearest city in this directory on exactly the same clock is Brussels, 260 km to the north-east, on Europe/Brussels.

Time zone rules: IANA tz database release 2026c, applied when this page was generated on 2026-11-02.

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