Current time in Rijeka, Croatia right now
It is 9:09 pm in Rijeka, Croatia 🇭🇷 right now, on Saturday, September 26, 2026. The city keeps Europe/Zagreb, which is CEST at UTC+2, so Rijeka is 2 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 7:09 pm. The sun rose in Rijeka at 6:54 am and sets at 6:52 pm, which is 11 hours 58 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Rijeka right now?
The time in Rijeka, Croatia is 9:09 pm, 21:09 on a 24 hour clock, on Saturday September 26, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Europe/Zagreb rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Rijeka sits at 45.33 degrees north and 14.44 degrees east, well into the temperate belt and 5,040 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 30.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 15.6 degrees west of that line. Those 15.6 degrees are worth 62 minutes 14 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:54 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Rijeka time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Rijeka, Croatia is Europe/Zagreb. Right now it is running at UTC+2 and the abbreviation in force is CEST. Rijeka 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 Rijeka today
The sun rose in Rijeka at 6:54 am and sets at 6:52 pm, which is 11 hours 58 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Rijeka, is at 12:54 pm, which is 54 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.34 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 43.3 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Rijeka |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 6:54 am |
| Sunset | 6:52 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:54 pm |
| Day length | 11 hours 58 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 6:13 pm to 7:10 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 7:22 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 Rijeka, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Rijeka 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 Rijeka. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Rijeka on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Rijeka 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 Rijeka.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Rijeka |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 12:09 pm | -9 | 9 hours behind of Rijeka |
| Chicago, Illinois | 2:09 pm | -7 | 7 hours behind of Rijeka |
| New York, New York | 3:09 pm | -6 | 6 hours behind of Rijeka |
| Toronto, Canada | 3:09 pm | -6 | 6 hours behind of Rijeka |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 4:09 pm | -5 | 5 hours behind of Rijeka |
| London, United Kingdom | 8:09 pm | -1 | 1 hour behind of Rijeka |
| Paris, France | 9:09 pm | 0 | same time as Rijeka |
| Berlin, Germany | 9:09 pm | 0 | same time as Rijeka |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 9:09 pm | 0 | same time as Rijeka |
| Moscow, Russia | 10:09 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Rijeka |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 11:09 pm | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Rijeka |
| Delhi, India | 12:39 am | +3:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes ahead of Rijeka |
| Singapore, Singapore | 3:09 am | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Rijeka |
| Hong Kong, China | 3:09 am | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Rijeka |
| Tokyo, Japan | 4:09 am | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Rijeka |
| Sydney, Australia | 5:09 am | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Rijeka |
Best time to call Rijeka
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 Rijeka | 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 Croatia
We cover 3 cities in Croatia. These are the ones nearest to Rijeka, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zagreb | Zagreb | 9:09 pm | UTC+2 |
| Split | Split-Dalmatia | 9:09 pm | UTC+2 |
Cities on Europe/Zagreb time
3 of our cities keep Europe/Zagreb, so every one of them reads 9:09 pm at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Rijeka. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Rijeka |
|---|---|---|
| Zagreb, Croatia | 9:09 pm | 131 km |
| Split, Croatia | 9:09 pm | 257 km |
Moon phase over Rijeka 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 5:11 am Zagreb 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 Rijeka clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Rijeka
The next change is on Sunday, October 25, 2026, 28 days from now, when the clocks in Rijeka 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 Rijeka 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 Rijeka is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Rijeka is Trieste, Italy at 63 km, and the furthest is Lower Hutt, New Zealand at 18,374 km, which is 92% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trieste, Italy | 63 | 39 | north west | 9:09 pm |
| Ljubljana, Slovenia | 81 | 50 | north | 9:09 pm |
| Udine, Italy | 125 | 78 | north west | 9:09 pm |
| Zagreb, Croatia | 131 | 82 | north east | 9:09 pm |
| Klagenfurt am Woerthersee, Austria | 145 | 90 | north | 9:09 pm |
| Venice, Italy | 167 | 104 | west | 9:09 pm |
| Mestre, Italy | 172 | 107 | west | 9:09 pm |
| Padua, Italy | 200 | 124 | west | 9:09 pm |
| Rimini, Italy | 205 | 127 | south west | 9:09 pm |
| Graz, Austria | 208 | 129 | north | 9:09 pm |
The antipode of Rijeka
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Rijeka, Croatia and you come out at 45.33 degrees south, 165.56 degrees west. That point is in the South Pacific Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Lower Hutt, New Zealand, 1,641 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 8:09 am on Sunday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 45.33 degrees north becomes 45.33 degrees south, and 14.44 degrees east becomes 165.56 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Rijeka is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-10, roughly twelve hours from Rijeka, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Rijeka
Today the sun rises in Rijeka at 6:54 am and sets at 6:52 pm, giving 11 hours 58 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 Rijeka.
Weather in Rijeka right now
22°C (72°F), clear sky
| Conditions | Clear sky |
|---|---|
| Wind | 14 km/h (9 mph) from the ENE, a gentle breeze |
| Humidity | 46% |
| Cloud cover | 0% |
| Pressure | 1022 hPa |
| Rain in the next hour | none forecast |
Reading taken 4 hours ago, local time 5 PM in Rijeka.
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Hourly forecast for Rijeka
The next 23 hours, in Rijeka local time. Temperatures are given in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
- 9 PM 14°C 58°F Clear sky 15 km/h
- 10 PM 14°C 57°F Clear sky 14 km/h
- 11 PM 13°C 56°F Clear sky 13 km/h
- 12 AM 13°C 56°F Clear sky 14 km/h
- 1 AM 13°C 56°F Clear sky 14 km/h
- 2 AM 13°C 55°F Clear sky 14 km/h
- 3 AM 13°C 55°F Clear sky 12 km/h
- 4 AM 12°C 54°F Clear sky 12 km/h
- 5 AM 12°C 54°F Clear sky 12 km/h
- 6 AM 12°C 53°F Clear sky 12 km/h
- 7 AM 12°C 53°F Clear sky 12 km/h
- 8 AM 14°C 57°F Clear sky 13 km/h
- 9 AM 18°C 64°F Clear sky 11 km/h
- 10 AM 20°C 68°F Clear sky 9 km/h
- 11 AM 22°C 71°F Clear sky 9 km/h
- 12 PM 23°C 73°F Clear sky 9 km/h
- 1 PM 24°C 74°F Clear sky 9 km/h
- 2 PM 24°C 75°F Fair 9 km/h
- 3 PM 24°C 76°F Fair 8 km/h
- 4 PM 24°C 76°F Fair 8 km/h
- 5 PM 24°C 75°F Fair 8 km/h
- 6 PM 22°C 72°F Fair 7 km/h
- 7 PM 19°C 65°F Clear sky 10 km/h
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
7-day forecast for Rijeka
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 26 Sep | 22°C / 72°F | 13°C / 56°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Sun 27 Sep | 24°C / 76°F | 12°C / 53°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Mon 28 Sep | 25°C / 77°F | 13°C / 55°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Tue 29 Sep | 25°C / 77°F | 14°C / 57°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Wed 30 Sep | 24°C / 76°F | 13°C / 56°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Thu 1 Oct | 25°C / 77°F | 14°C / 58°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Fri 2 Oct | 24°C / 74°F | 13°C / 56°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Sun and moon in Rijeka today
The sun is up in Rijeka for 11 hours 58 minutes today, from 6:54 am to 6:52 pm. The moon sets in Rijeka at 6:29 am and comes up again at 6:33 pm. The next phase is the full moon on September 26, 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 Rijeka |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:15 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:50 am |
| Civil dawn | 6:25 am |
| Sunrise | 6:54 am |
| Solar noon | 12:54 pm |
| Sunset | 6:52 pm |
| Civil dusk | 7:22 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 7:56 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 8:31 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 Rijeka | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 6:25 am to 6:36 am | 0h 11m |
| Morning golden hour | 6:36 am to 7:33 am | 0h 57m |
| Evening golden hour | 6:13 pm to 7:10 pm | 0h 57m |
| Evening blue hour | 7:10 pm to 7:22 pm | 0h 11m |
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 Rijeka |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:33 pm |
| Moonset | 6:29 am |
| Phase | full moon, waxing |
| Illumination | 100% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 15.3 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 380,600 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: Rijeka and four other places
Every hour of Saturday, September 26, 2026 in Rijeka, Croatia, read across 4 other places. Columns are Rijeka 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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| Rijeka 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RijekaCEST 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 Saturday, September 26, 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 Rijeka it is working hours in Rijeka, 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 Rijeka
Seven days from September 26, 2026, computed for Rijeka, Croatia at 45.33 degrees north, 14.44 degrees east, on the clock of Europe/Zagreb. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday September 26 | 5:15 am | 6:54 am | 12:54 pm | 4:13 pm | 6:52 pm | 8:25 pm |
| Sunday September 27 | 5:16 am | 6:55 am | 12:53 pm | 4:11 pm | 6:51 pm | 8:23 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 5:18 am | 6:56 am | 12:53 pm | 4:10 pm | 6:49 pm | 8:21 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 5:19 am | 6:58 am | 12:53 pm | 4:09 pm | 6:47 pm | 8:19 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 5:20 am | 6:59 am | 12:52 pm | 4:07 pm | 6:45 pm | 8:17 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 5:22 am | 7:00 am | 12:52 pm | 4:06 pm | 6:43 pm | 8:15 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 5:23 am | 7:01 am | 12:52 pm | 4:04 pm | 6:41 pm | 8:13 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Rijeka, Croatia, 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 Rijeka
From Rijeka, Croatia the qibla is 130.5 degrees on a true compass, which is southeast, or 40.5 degrees south of due east. The Kaaba is 3,522 km away, 2,189 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Rijeka, Croatia 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 Rijeka, Croatia 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 Rijeka clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Rijeka, Croatia, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Europe/Zagreb from the time zone database, so it stays right when Rijeka 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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Rijeka time now: common questions
- What time is it in Rijeka, Croatia right now?
- 9:09 pm on Saturday September 26, 2026. Rijeka runs on CEST, UTC+2.
- What time zone is Rijeka in?
- Europe/Zagreb, currently CEST at UTC+2. 3 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Rijeka?
- UTC+2 at this instant. It alternates between UTC+1 and UTC+2 across the year.
- Does Rijeka observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. The next change is October 25, 2026, when the clocks go back.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Rijeka of New York?
- Rijeka is 6 hours ahead of New York, where it is 3:09 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Rijeka today?
- 6:52 pm, after a sunrise at 6:54 am and 11 hours 58 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Rijeka?
- 45.33 degrees south, 165.56 degrees west, in the South Pacific Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Rijeka from London?
- Between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm in Rijeka, which is 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in London.
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