Current time in Sofia, Bulgaria right now
It is 2:18 pm in Sofia, Bulgaria 🇧🇬 right now, on Friday, September 25, 2026. The city keeps Europe/Sofia, which is EEST at UTC+3, so Sofia is 3 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 11:18 am. The sun rose in Sofia at 7:17 am and sets at 7:19 pm, which is 12 hours 2 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Sofia right now?
The time in Sofia, Bulgaria is 2:18 pm, 14:18 on a 24 hour clock, on Friday September 25, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Europe/Sofia rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Sofia sits at 42.70 degrees north and 23.32 degrees east, at a middle latitude and 4,748 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 45.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 21.7 degrees west of that line. Those 21.7 degrees are worth 86 minutes 43 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 1:18 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Sofia time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Sofia, Bulgaria is Europe/Sofia. Right now it is running at UTC+3 and the abbreviation in force is EEST. Sofia 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 Sofia today
The sun rose in Sofia at 7:17 am and sets at 7:19 pm, which is 12 hours 2 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Sofia, is at 1:18 pm, which is 78 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -0.94 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 46.4 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Sofia |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 7:17 am |
| Sunset | 7:19 pm |
| Solar noon | 1:18 pm |
| Day length | 12 hours 2 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 6:42 pm to 7:36 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 7:47 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 Sofia, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Sofia 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 Sofia. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Sofia on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Sofia 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 Sofia.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Sofia |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 4:18 am | -10 | 10 hours behind of Sofia |
| Chicago, Illinois | 6:18 am | -8 | 8 hours behind of Sofia |
| New York, New York | 7:18 am | -7 | 7 hours behind of Sofia |
| Toronto, Canada | 7:18 am | -7 | 7 hours behind of Sofia |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 8:18 am | -6 | 6 hours behind of Sofia |
| London, United Kingdom | 12:18 pm | -2 | 2 hours behind of Sofia |
| Paris, France | 1:18 pm | -1 | 1 hour behind of Sofia |
| Berlin, Germany | 1:18 pm | -1 | 1 hour behind of Sofia |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 1:18 pm | -1 | 1 hour behind of Sofia |
| Moscow, Russia | 2:18 pm | 0 | same time as Sofia |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 3:18 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Sofia |
| Delhi, India | 4:48 pm | +2:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes ahead of Sofia |
| Singapore, Singapore | 7:18 pm | +5 | 5 hours ahead of Sofia |
| Hong Kong, China | 7:18 pm | +5 | 5 hours ahead of Sofia |
| Tokyo, Japan | 8:18 pm | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Sofia |
| Sydney, Australia | 9:18 pm | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Sofia |
Best time to call Sofia
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 Sofia | 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 Bulgaria
We cover 6 cities in Bulgaria. These are the ones nearest to Sofia, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plovdiv | Plovdiv | 2:18 pm | UTC+3 |
| Stara Zagora | Stara Zagora | 2:18 pm | UTC+3 |
| Ruse | Ruse | 2:18 pm | UTC+3 |
| Burgas | Burgas | 2:18 pm | UTC+3 |
| Varna | Varna | 2:18 pm | UTC+3 |
Cities on Europe/Sofia time
6 of our cities keep Europe/Sofia, so every one of them reads 2:18 pm at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Sofia. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Sofia |
|---|---|---|
| Plovdiv, Bulgaria | 2:18 pm | 132 km |
| Stara Zagora, Bulgaria | 2:18 pm | 192 km |
| Ruse, Bulgaria | 2:18 pm | 249 km |
| Burgas, Bulgaria | 2:18 pm | 340 km |
| Varna, Bulgaria | 2:18 pm | 378 km |
Moon phase over Sofia tonight
The moon is a full moon tonight, 14.3 days into its cycle and about 100% lit. The next full moon falls on September 26, 2026 at 7:48 pm Sofia 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 Sofia clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Sofia
The next change is on Sunday, October 25, 2026, 30 days from now, when the clocks in Sofia go back 1 hour at 3:59 am and the offset moves from UTC+3 to UTC+2.
Two things follow from that. Any standing call with Sofia 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 Sofia is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Sofia is Plovdiv, Bulgaria at 132 km, and the furthest is Lower Hutt, New Zealand at 17,672 km, which is 88% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plovdiv, Bulgaria | 132 | 82 | south east | 2:18 pm |
| Nis, Serbia | 135 | 84 | north west | 1:18 pm |
| Skopje, North Macedonia | 174 | 108 | south west | 1:18 pm |
| Pristina, Kosovo | 176 | 109 | west | 1:18 pm |
| Craiova, Romania | 184 | 114 | north | 2:18 pm |
| Stara Zagora, Bulgaria | 192 | 120 | east | 2:18 pm |
| Mitrovice, Kosovo | 201 | 125 | west | 1:18 pm |
| Prizren, Kosovo | 219 | 136 | west | 1:18 pm |
| Thessaloniki, Greece | 231 | 144 | south | 2:18 pm |
| Kragujevac, Serbia | 244 | 151 | north west | 1:18 pm |
The antipode of Sofia
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Sofia, Bulgaria and you come out at 42.70 degrees south, 156.68 degrees west. That point is in the South Pacific Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Lower Hutt, New Zealand, 2,343 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 11:18 pm on Friday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 42.70 degrees north becomes 42.70 degrees south, and 23.32 degrees east becomes 156.68 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Sofia is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-9, roughly twelve hours from Sofia, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Sofia
Today the sun rises in Sofia at 7:17 am and sets at 7:19 pm, giving 12 hours 2 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 Sofia.
Weather in Sofia right now
14°C (57°F), partly cloudy
| Conditions | Partly cloudy |
|---|---|
| Wind | 5 km/h (3 mph) from the ENE, light air |
| Humidity | 47% |
| Cloud cover | 84% |
| Pressure | 1021 hPa |
| Rain in the next hour | none forecast |
Reading taken 3 hours ago, local time 11 AM in Sofia.
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Hourly forecast for Sofia
The next 24 hours, in Sofia local time. Temperatures are given in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
- 2 PM 19°C 67°F Cloudy 10 km/h
- 3 PM 20°C 67°F Cloudy 10 km/h
- 4 PM 20°C 67°F Rain 13 km/h 0.3 mm
- 5 PM 17°C 62°F Rain 17 km/h 0.3 mm
- 6 PM 15°C 59°F Partly cloudy 13 km/h
- 7 PM 15°C 58°F Partly cloudy 9 km/h
- 8 PM 14°C 57°F Cloudy 8 km/h
- 9 PM 13°C 56°F Cloudy 6 km/h
- 10 PM 13°C 56°F Light rain 4 km/h 0.1 mm
- 11 PM 13°C 55°F Rain 4 km/h 0.7 mm
- 12 AM 12°C 54°F Heavy rain 5 km/h 1.2 mm
- 1 AM 12°C 53°F Heavy rain 5 km/h 1.1 mm
- 2 AM 12°C 53°F Rain 6 km/h 0.7 mm
- 3 AM 11°C 52°F Rain 5 km/h 0.7 mm
- 4 AM 11°C 52°F Rain 6 km/h 0.7 mm
- 5 AM 11°C 51°F Rain 5 km/h 0.6 mm
- 6 AM 11°C 51°F Rain 6 km/h 0.4 mm
- 7 AM 11°C 51°F Light rain 6 km/h 0.1 mm
- 8 AM 11°C 51°F Cloudy 6 km/h
- 9 AM 11°C 52°F Cloudy 5 km/h
- 10 AM 12°C 54°F Cloudy 5 km/h
- 11 AM 13°C 56°F Cloudy 7 km/h
- 12 PM 15°C 58°F Partly cloudy 9 km/h
- 1 PM 16°C 61°F Partly cloudy 12 km/h
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
7-day forecast for Sofia
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 25 Sep | 20°C / 67°F | 13°C / 55°F | Partly cloudy | 1.4 mm |
| Sat 26 Sep | 17°C / 63°F | 11°C / 51°F | Partly cloudy | 5.5 mm |
| Sun 27 Sep | 18°C / 65°F | 11°C / 51°F | Light rain showers | 1.0 mm |
| Mon 28 Sep | 20°C / 68°F | 10°C / 50°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Tue 29 Sep | 19°C / 65°F | 10°C / 50°F | Light rain showers | 1.1 mm |
| Wed 30 Sep | 18°C / 64°F | 10°C / 50°F | Cloudy | 0 mm |
| Thu 1 Oct | 16°C / 62°F | 10°C / 50°F | Partly cloudy | 0.8 mm |
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Sun and moon in Sofia today
The sun is up in Sofia for 12 hours 2 minutes today, from 7:17 am to 7:19 pm. The moon sets in Sofia at 5:42 am and comes up again at 6:38 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 3.0 percentage points a day.
| Sun | Time in Sofia |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:42 am |
| Nautical dawn | 6:16 am |
| Civil dawn | 6:49 am |
| Sunrise | 7:17 am |
| Solar noon | 1:18 pm |
| Sunset | 7:19 pm |
| Civil dusk | 7:47 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 8:20 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 8:53 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 Sofia | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 6:49 am to 7:00 am | 0h 11m |
| Morning golden hour | 7:00 am to 7:54 am | 0h 55m |
| Evening golden hour | 6:42 pm to 7:36 pm | 0h 54m |
| Evening blue hour | 7:36 pm to 7:47 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 Sofia |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:38 pm |
| Moonset | 5:42 am |
| Phase | full moon, waxing |
| Illumination | 98% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 14.2 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 385,000 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: Sofia and four other places
Every hour of Friday, September 25, 2026 in Sofia, Bulgaria, read across 4 other places. Columns are Sofia 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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| Sofia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SofiaEEST 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 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 11:00 am in Sofia it is working hours in Sofia, 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 Sofia
Seven days from September 25, 2026, computed for Sofia, Bulgaria at 42.70 degrees north, 23.32 degrees east, on the clock of Europe/Sofia. 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 | 5:42 am | 7:17 am | 1:18 pm | 4:40 pm | 7:19 pm | 8:48 pm |
| Saturday September 26 | 5:44 am | 7:18 am | 1:18 pm | 4:39 pm | 7:17 pm | 8:46 pm |
| Sunday September 27 | 5:45 am | 7:19 am | 1:18 pm | 4:38 pm | 7:15 pm | 8:44 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 5:46 am | 7:20 am | 1:17 pm | 4:37 pm | 7:14 pm | 8:42 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 5:47 am | 7:21 am | 1:17 pm | 4:35 pm | 7:12 pm | 8:40 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 5:48 am | 7:23 am | 1:17 pm | 4:34 pm | 7:10 pm | 8:39 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 5:50 am | 7:24 am | 1:16 pm | 4:33 pm | 7:08 pm | 8:37 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Sofia, Bulgaria, 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 Sofia
From Sofia, Bulgaria the qibla is 141.9 degrees on a true compass, which is southeast, or 38.1 degrees west of due south. The Kaaba is 2,820 km away, 1,752 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Sofia, Bulgaria 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 Sofia, Bulgaria 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 Sofia clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Sofia, Bulgaria, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Europe/Sofia from the time zone database, so it stays right when Sofia 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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Sofia time now: common questions
- What time is it in Sofia, Bulgaria right now?
- 2:18 pm on Friday September 25, 2026. Sofia runs on EEST, UTC+3.
- What time zone is Sofia in?
- Europe/Sofia, currently EEST at UTC+3. 6 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Sofia?
- UTC+3 at this instant. It alternates between UTC+2 and UTC+3 across the year.
- Does Sofia observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. The next change is October 25, 2026, when the clocks go back.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Sofia of New York?
- Sofia is 7 hours ahead of New York, where it is 7:18 am right now.
- What time does the sun set in Sofia today?
- 7:19 pm, after a sunrise at 7:17 am and 12 hours 2 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Sofia?
- 42.70 degrees south, 156.68 degrees west, in the South Pacific Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Sofia from London?
- Between 11:00 am and 6:00 pm in Sofia, which is 9:00 am to 4:00 pm in London.
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