Current time in Chisinau, Moldova right now
It is 12:04 am in Chisinau, Moldova 🇲🇩 right now, on Sunday, September 27, 2026. The city keeps Europe/Chisinau, which is EEST at UTC+3, so Chisinau is 3 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 9:04 pm. The sun rose in Chisinau at 6:58 am and sets at 6:53 pm, which is 11 hours 55 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Chisinau right now?
The time in Chisinau, Moldova is 12:04 am, 00:04 on a 24 hour clock, on Sunday September 27, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Europe/Chisinau rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Chisinau sits at 47.01 degrees north and 28.86 degrees east, well into the temperate belt and 5,227 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 45.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 16.1 degrees west of that line. Those 16.1 degrees are worth 64 minutes 34 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:56 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Chisinau time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Chisinau, Moldova is Europe/Chisinau. Right now it is running at UTC+3 and the abbreviation in force is EEST. Chisinau is on summer time at the moment, which is why the offset reads UTC+3 rather than the UTC+2 it keeps in winter.
Daylight hours in Chisinau today
The sun rose in Chisinau at 6:58 am and sets at 6:53 pm, which is 11 hours 55 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Chisinau, is at 12:56 pm, which is 56 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.72 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 41.3 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Chisinau |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 6:58 am |
| Sunset | 6:53 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:56 pm |
| Day length | 11 hours 55 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 6:12 pm to 7:11 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 7:23 pm |
The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Chisinau, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Chisinau is on the map
The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.
An interactive map of Chisinau. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Chisinau on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Chisinau and major cities
Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Chisinau.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Chisinau |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 2:04 pm | -10 | 10 hours behind of Chisinau |
| Chicago, Illinois | 4:04 pm | -8 | 8 hours behind of Chisinau |
| New York, New York | 5:04 pm | -7 | 7 hours behind of Chisinau |
| Toronto, Canada | 5:04 pm | -7 | 7 hours behind of Chisinau |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 6:04 pm | -6 | 6 hours behind of Chisinau |
| London, United Kingdom | 10:04 pm | -2 | 2 hours behind of Chisinau |
| Paris, France | 11:04 pm | -1 | 1 hour behind of Chisinau |
| Berlin, Germany | 11:04 pm | -1 | 1 hour behind of Chisinau |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 11:04 pm | -1 | 1 hour behind of Chisinau |
| Moscow, Russia | 12:04 am | 0 | same time as Chisinau |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 1:04 am | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Chisinau |
| Delhi, India | 2:34 am | +2:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes ahead of Chisinau |
| Singapore, Singapore | 5:04 am | +5 | 5 hours ahead of Chisinau |
| Hong Kong, China | 5:04 am | +5 | 5 hours ahead of Chisinau |
| Tokyo, Japan | 6:04 am | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Chisinau |
| Sydney, Australia | 7:04 am | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Chisinau |
Best time to call Chisinau
Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Chisinau | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | -7 | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 11:00 am |
| Los Angeles | -10 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| London | -2 | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm |
| Delhi | +2:30 | 9:00 am to 3:30 pm | 11:30 am to 6:00 pm |
| Sydney | +7 | 9:00 am to 11:00 am | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
Other cities in Moldova
We cover 4 cities in Moldova. These are the ones nearest to Chisinau, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bender | Bender Municipality | 12:04 am | UTC+3 |
| Tiraspol | Transnistria | 12:04 am | UTC+3 |
| Balti | Balti | 12:04 am | UTC+3 |
Cities on Europe/Chisinau time
4 of our cities keep Europe/Chisinau, so every one of them reads 12:04 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Chisinau. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Chisinau |
|---|---|---|
| Bender, Moldova | 12:04 am | 51 km |
| Tiraspol, Moldova | 12:04 am | 61 km |
| Balti, Moldova | 12:04 am | 109 km |
Moon phase over Chisinau tonight
The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 15.7 days into its cycle and about 99% lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 at 6:11 am Chisinau time, and the next new moon on October 10, 2026 at 6:49 pm. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Chisinau clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Chisinau
The next change is on Sunday, October 25, 2026, 28 days from now, when the clocks in Chisinau go back 1 hour at 2:59 am and the offset moves from UTC+3 to UTC+2.
Two things follow from that. Any standing call with Chisinau shifts by an hour on that date unless the other side moves the same weekend, and every offset printed on this page is the offset for today rather than a fixed property of the city.
How far Chisinau is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Chisinau is Bender, Moldova at 51 km, and the furthest is Lower Hutt, New Zealand at 17,253 km, which is 86% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bender, Moldova | 51 | 32 | south east | 12:04 am |
| Tiraspol, Moldova | 61 | 38 | east | 12:04 am |
| Iasi, Romania | 97 | 60 | west | 12:04 am |
| Balti, Moldova | 109 | 68 | north west | 12:04 am |
| Odesa, Ukraine | 155 | 96 | east | 12:04 am |
| Cheremushky, Ukraine | 155 | 96 | south east | 12:04 am |
| Bacau, Romania | 156 | 97 | west | 12:04 am |
| Galati, Romania | 186 | 115 | south | 12:04 am |
| Piatra Neamt, Romania | 192 | 119 | west | 12:04 am |
| Braila, Romania | 205 | 127 | south | 12:04 am |
The antipode of Chisinau
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Chisinau, Moldova and you come out at 47.01 degrees south, 151.14 degrees west. That point is in the South Pacific Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Lower Hutt, New Zealand, 2,762 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 10:04 am on Sunday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 47.01 degrees north becomes 47.01 degrees south, and 28.86 degrees east becomes 151.14 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Chisinau is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-9, roughly twelve hours from Chisinau, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Chisinau
Today the sun rises in Chisinau at 6:58 am and sets at 6:53 pm, giving 11 hours 55 minutes of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Chisinau.
Weather in Chisinau right now
18°C (65°F), cloudy
| Conditions | Cloudy |
|---|---|
| Wind | 4 km/h (3 mph) from the NNE, light air |
| Humidity | 61% |
| Cloud cover | 100% |
| Pressure | 1025 hPa |
| Rain in the next hour | none forecast |
Reading taken 6 hours ago, local time 6 PM in Chisinau.
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Hourly forecast for Chisinau
The next 21 hours, in Chisinau local time. Temperatures are given in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
- 12 AM 12°C 54°F Clear sky 5 km/h
- 1 AM 12°C 53°F Clear sky 6 km/h
- 2 AM 12°C 53°F Clear sky 7 km/h
- 3 AM 11°C 52°F Clear sky 7 km/h
- 4 AM 11°C 51°F Clear sky 7 km/h
- 5 AM 11°C 51°F Clear sky 8 km/h
- 6 AM 10°C 51°F Clear sky 9 km/h
- 7 AM 10°C 50°F Clear sky 9 km/h
- 8 AM 11°C 51°F Clear sky 10 km/h
- 9 AM 13°C 55°F Clear sky 10 km/h
- 10 AM 15°C 60°F Clear sky 10 km/h
- 11 AM 18°C 64°F Clear sky 12 km/h
- 12 PM 19°C 66°F Clear sky 16 km/h
- 1 PM 20°C 68°F Clear sky 16 km/h
- 2 PM 20°C 68°F Clear sky 17 km/h
- 3 PM 20°C 69°F Fair 17 km/h
- 4 PM 20°C 69°F Partly cloudy 19 km/h
- 5 PM 20°C 68°F Fair 20 km/h
- 6 PM 19°C 66°F Fair 15 km/h
- 7 PM 17°C 62°F Fair 13 km/h
- 8 PM 16°C 60°F Clear sky 13 km/h
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
7-day forecast for Chisinau
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 26 Sep | 18°C / 65°F | 13°C / 55°F | Cloudy | 0 mm |
| Sun 27 Sep | 20°C / 69°F | 10°C / 50°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Mon 28 Sep | 20°C / 68°F | 12°C / 53°F | Cloudy | 0 mm |
| Tue 29 Sep | 21°C / 69°F | 12°C / 53°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Wed 30 Sep | 17°C / 63°F | 12°C / 54°F | Partly cloudy | 0 mm |
| Thu 1 Oct | 18°C / 64°F | 14°C / 56°F | Cloudy | 0.1 mm |
| Fri 2 Oct | 20°C / 69°F | 13°C / 55°F | Fair | 0 mm |
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Sun and moon in Chisinau today
The sun is up in Chisinau for 11 hours 55 minutes today, from 6:58 am to 6:53 pm. The moon sets in Chisinau at 7:44 am and comes up again at 6:51 pm. The next phase is the last quarter on October 3, 2026. The moon is full, or as near to it as makes no difference, and the whole of the face turned towards us is lit.
| Sun | Time in Chisinau |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:15 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:52 am |
| Civil dawn | 6:27 am |
| Sunrise | 6:58 am |
| Solar noon | 12:56 pm |
| Sunset | 6:53 pm |
| Civil dusk | 7:23 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 7:58 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 8:35 pm |
Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.
| Light band | Time in Chisinau | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 6:27 am to 6:39 am | 0h 12m |
| Morning golden hour | 6:39 am to 7:38 am | 0h 59m |
| Evening golden hour | 6:12 pm to 7:11 pm | 0h 59m |
| Evening blue hour | 7:11 pm to 7:23 pm | 0h 12m |
Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.
| Moon | Reading in Chisinau |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:51 pm |
| Moonset | 7:44 am |
| Phase | waning gibbous, waning |
| Illumination | 99% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 16.2 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 376,900 km |
Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.
Meeting planner: Chisinau and four other places
Every hour of Sunday, September 27, 2026 in Chisinau, Moldova, read across 4 other places. Columns are Chisinau local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
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| Chisinau local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChisinauEEST UTC+3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPDT UTC-7 | 14-1 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| LondonBST UTC+1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 2:30 | 3:30 | 4:30 | 5:30 | 6:30 | 7:30 | 8:30 | 9:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 | 21:30 | 22:30 | 23:30 | 0:30+1 | 1:30+1 |
No hour on Sunday, September 27, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Los Angeles and Delhi are 12 hours 30 minutes apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 11:00 am in Chisinau it is working hours in Chisinau, London and Delhi, but outside them in Los Angeles and New York. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Chisinau
Seven days from September 27, 2026, computed for Chisinau, Moldova at 47.01 degrees north, 28.86 degrees east, on the clock of Europe/Chisinau. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday September 27 | 5:15 am | 6:58 am | 12:56 pm | 4:12 pm | 6:53 pm | 8:28 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 5:17 am | 6:59 am | 12:55 pm | 4:11 pm | 6:51 pm | 8:26 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 5:18 am | 7:00 am | 12:55 pm | 4:09 pm | 6:49 pm | 8:24 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 5:20 am | 7:02 am | 12:55 pm | 4:08 pm | 6:47 pm | 8:22 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 5:21 am | 7:03 am | 12:54 pm | 4:06 pm | 6:45 pm | 8:20 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 5:23 am | 7:04 am | 12:54 pm | 4:05 pm | 6:43 pm | 8:18 pm |
| Saturday October 3 | 5:24 am | 7:06 am | 12:54 pm | 4:03 pm | 6:41 pm | 8:16 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Chisinau, Moldova, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.
Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.
Qibla direction from Chisinau
From Chisinau, Moldova the qibla is 157.1 degrees on a true compass, which is south-southeast, or 22.9 degrees west of due south. The Kaaba is 3,012 km away, 1,871 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Chisinau, Moldova to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.
The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Chisinau, Moldova before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.
Put a Chisinau clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Chisinau, Moldova, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Europe/Chisinau from the time zone database, so it stays right when Chisinau changes its clocks, and it shows EEST to every visitor wherever they are reading from. It is a plain iframe: no account, no script to install, nothing to pay.
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Chisinau time now: common questions
- What time is it in Chisinau, Moldova right now?
- 12:04 am on Sunday September 27, 2026. Chisinau runs on EEST, UTC+3.
- What time zone is Chisinau in?
- Europe/Chisinau, currently EEST at UTC+3. 4 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Chisinau?
- UTC+3 at this instant. It alternates between UTC+2 and UTC+3 across the year.
- Does Chisinau observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. The next change is October 25, 2026, when the clocks go back.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Chisinau of New York?
- Chisinau is 7 hours ahead of New York, where it is 5:04 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Chisinau today?
- 6:53 pm, after a sunrise at 6:58 am and 11 hours 55 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Chisinau?
- 47.01 degrees south, 151.14 degrees west, in the South Pacific Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Chisinau from London?
- Between 11:00 am and 6:00 pm in Chisinau, which is 9:00 am to 4:00 pm in London.
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