Current time in Odense, Denmark right now
It is 2:30 pm in Odense, Denmark 🇩🇰 right now, on Friday, September 25, 2026. The city keeps Europe/Copenhagen, which is CEST at UTC+2, so Odense is 2 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 12:30 pm. The sun rose in Odense at 7:09 am and sets at 7:10 pm, which is 12 hours of daylight.
What time is it in Odense right now?
The time in Odense, Denmark is 2:30 pm, 14:30 on a 24 hour clock, on Friday September 25, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Europe/Copenhagen rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Odense sits at 55.40 degrees north and 10.39 degrees east, high in the temperate belt and 6,160 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 30.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 19.6 degrees west of that line. Those 19.6 degrees are worth 78 minutes 27 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 1:10 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Odense time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Odense, Denmark is Europe/Copenhagen. Right now it is running at UTC+2 and the abbreviation in force is CEST. Odense is on summer time at the moment, which is why the offset reads UTC+2 rather than the UTC+1 it keeps in winter.
Daylight hours in Odense today
The sun rose in Odense at 7:09 am and sets at 7:10 pm, which is 12 hours of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Odense, is at 1:10 pm, which is 70 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -0.96 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 33.6 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Odense |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 7:09 am |
| Sunset | 7:10 pm |
| Solar noon | 1:10 pm |
| Day length | 12 hours |
| Evening golden hour | 6:21 pm to 7:32 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 7:46 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 Odense, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Odense 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 Odense. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Odense on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Odense 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 Odense.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Odense |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 5:30 am | -9 | 9 hours behind of Odense |
| Chicago, Illinois | 7:30 am | -7 | 7 hours behind of Odense |
| New York, New York | 8:30 am | -6 | 6 hours behind of Odense |
| Toronto, Canada | 8:30 am | -6 | 6 hours behind of Odense |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 9:30 am | -5 | 5 hours behind of Odense |
| London, United Kingdom | 1:30 pm | -1 | 1 hour behind of Odense |
| Paris, France | 2:30 pm | 0 | same time as Odense |
| Berlin, Germany | 2:30 pm | 0 | same time as Odense |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 2:30 pm | 0 | same time as Odense |
| Moscow, Russia | 3:30 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Odense |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 4:30 pm | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Odense |
| Delhi, India | 6:00 pm | +3:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes ahead of Odense |
| Singapore, Singapore | 8:30 pm | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Odense |
| Hong Kong, China | 8:30 pm | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Odense |
| Tokyo, Japan | 9:30 pm | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Odense |
| Sydney, Australia | 10:30 pm | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Odense |
Best time to call Odense
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 Odense | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | -6 | 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 12:00 pm |
| Los Angeles | -9 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| London | -1 | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm |
| Delhi | +3:30 | 9:00 am to 2:30 pm | 12:30 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Sydney | +8 | 9:00 am to 10:00 am | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
Other cities in Denmark
We cover 4 cities in Denmark. These are the ones nearest to Odense, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arhus | Central Jutland | 2:30 pm | UTC+2 |
| Copenhagen | Capital Region | 2:30 pm | UTC+2 |
| Aalborg | North Denmark | 2:30 pm | UTC+2 |
Cities on Europe/Copenhagen time
4 of our cities keep Europe/Copenhagen, so every one of them reads 2:30 pm at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Odense. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Odense |
|---|---|---|
| Arhus, Denmark | 2:30 pm | 85 km |
| Copenhagen, Denmark | 2:30 pm | 141 km |
| Aalborg, Denmark | 2:30 pm | 186 km |
Moon phase over Odense tonight
The moon is a full moon tonight, 14.4 days into its cycle and about 100% lit. The next full moon falls on September 26, 2026 at 6:48 pm Copenhagen time, and the next new moon on October 10, 2026 at 5:49 pm. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Odense clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Odense
The next change is on Sunday, October 25, 2026, 30 days from now, when the clocks in Odense go back 1 hour at 2:59 am and the offset moves from UTC+2 to UTC+1.
Two things follow from that. Any standing call with Odense 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 Odense is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Odense is Arhus, Denmark at 85 km, and the furthest is Dunedin, New Zealand at 18,268 km, which is 91% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arhus, Denmark | 85 | 53 | north | 2:30 pm |
| Kiel, Germany | 121 | 75 | south | 2:30 pm |
| Copenhagen, Denmark | 141 | 87 | east | 2:30 pm |
| Helsingborg, Sweden | 162 | 100 | north east | 2:30 pm |
| Malmoe, Sweden | 166 | 103 | east | 2:30 pm |
| Luebeck, Germany | 171 | 106 | south | 2:30 pm |
| Rostock, Germany | 184 | 114 | south east | 2:30 pm |
| Aalborg, Denmark | 186 | 116 | north | 2:30 pm |
| Wandsbek, Germany | 203 | 126 | south | 2:30 pm |
| Hamburg-Nord, Germany | 203 | 126 | south | 2:30 pm |
The antipode of Odense
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Odense, Denmark and you come out at 55.40 degrees south, 169.61 degrees west. That point is in the South Pacific Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Dunedin, New Zealand, 1,747 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 12:30 am on Saturday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 55.40 degrees north becomes 55.40 degrees south, and 10.39 degrees east becomes 169.61 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Odense is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-10, roughly twelve hours from Odense, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Odense
Today the sun rises in Odense at 7:09 am and sets at 7:10 pm, giving 12 hours 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 Odense.
Sun and moon in Odense today
The sun is up in Odense for 12 hours today, from 7:09 am to 7:10 pm. The moon sets in Odense at 5:24 am and comes up again at 6:35 pm. The next phase is the full moon on September 26, 2026. It is 98% lit at the moment, a full moon, filling out by about 2.9 percentage points a day.
| Sun | Time in Odense |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:04 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:50 am |
| Civil dawn | 6:33 am |
| Sunrise | 7:09 am |
| Solar noon | 1:10 pm |
| Sunset | 7:10 pm |
| Civil dusk | 7:46 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 8:29 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 9:14 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 Odense | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 6:33 am to 6:47 am | 0h 14m |
| Morning golden hour | 6:47 am to 7:58 am | 1h 11m |
| Evening golden hour | 6:21 pm to 7:32 pm | 1h 11m |
| Evening blue hour | 7:32 pm to 7:46 pm | 0h 14m |
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 Odense |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:35 pm |
| Moonset | 5:24 am |
| Phase | full moon, waxing |
| Illumination | 98% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 14.3 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 384,800 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: Odense and four other places
Every hour of Friday, September 25, 2026 in Odense, Denmark, read across 4 other places. Columns are Odense 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.
Change the places or the date
| Odense 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OdenseCEST UTC+2 | 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 | 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 | 14 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 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 | 17 |
| LondonBST UTC+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 | 22 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 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 | 2:30+1 |
No hour on Friday, September 25, 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 10:00 am in Odense it is working hours in Odense, 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 Odense
Seven days from September 25, 2026, computed for Odense, Denmark at 55.40 degrees north, 10.39 degrees east, on the clock of Europe/Copenhagen. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday September 25 | 5:04 am | 7:09 am | 1:10 pm | 4:19 pm | 7:10 pm | 9:07 pm |
| Saturday September 26 | 5:06 am | 7:11 am | 1:10 pm | 4:17 pm | 7:07 pm | 9:04 pm |
| Sunday September 27 | 5:09 am | 7:13 am | 1:09 pm | 4:15 pm | 7:05 pm | 9:01 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 5:11 am | 7:15 am | 1:09 pm | 4:14 pm | 7:02 pm | 8:58 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 5:13 am | 7:17 am | 1:09 pm | 4:12 pm | 6:59 pm | 8:55 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 5:15 am | 7:19 am | 1:08 pm | 4:10 pm | 6:57 pm | 8:52 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 5:17 am | 7:21 am | 1:08 pm | 4:08 pm | 6:54 pm | 8:50 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Odense, Denmark, 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 Odense
From Odense, Denmark the qibla is 135.1 degrees on a true compass, which is southeast, or 44.9 degrees west of due south. The Kaaba is 4,497 km away, 2,794 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Odense, Denmark 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 Odense, Denmark 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 Odense clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Odense, Denmark, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Europe/Copenhagen from the time zone database, so it stays right when Odense changes its clocks, and it shows CEST 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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Odense time now: common questions
- What time is it in Odense, Denmark right now?
- 2:30 pm on Friday September 25, 2026. Odense runs on CEST, UTC+2.
- What time zone is Odense in?
- Europe/Copenhagen, currently CEST at UTC+2. 4 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Odense?
- UTC+2 at this instant. It alternates between UTC+1 and UTC+2 across the year.
- Does Odense observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. The next change is October 25, 2026, when the clocks go back.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Odense of New York?
- Odense is 6 hours ahead of New York, where it is 8:30 am right now.
- What time does the sun set in Odense today?
- 7:10 pm, after a sunrise at 7:09 am and 12 hours of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Odense?
- 55.40 degrees south, 169.61 degrees west, in the South Pacific Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Odense from London?
- Between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm in Odense, which is 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in London.
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