What time is it in United Kingdom right now? 🇬🇧
It is 8:10 pm in London right now, Saturday, September 26, 2026. the United Kingdom runs on BST at UTC+1. Every reading on this page is computed from the IANA time zone database at the moment you loaded it, and the clocks above and below tick on from there.
Time in United Kingdom now
the United Kingdom keeps a single time zone, Europe/London, so there is one answer to the question and it is the same in every town: 8:10 pm. The offset is UTC+1, and it is the summer one at the moment.
The offset from UTC in London is UTC+1, which is 1 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Nine in the morning in London is 8:00 am UTC.
United Kingdom time zone in full
Each row is a zone identifier from the IANA database, its reading at this instant, its offset from UTC and whether it is currently on standard or summer time. All of them agree today, which is the usual case for the United Kingdom.
| Time zone | Time now | UTC offset | Abbreviation | Daylight saving |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Europe/London | 8:10 pm | UTC+1 | BST | on summer time now |
Does United Kingdom have daylight saving time?
the United Kingdom does observe daylight saving, in every zone it has. The next change is on October 25, 2026, when the clocks go back and UTC+1 becomes UTC+0. Until then the offset here is UTC+1.
Because the clocks move, the gap between United Kingdom and anywhere that does not move its own is not a constant. It shifts by an hour twice a year, and a difference memorised in one season is wrong in the other. That is the single most common source of a missed call into the United Kingdom.
Where United Kingdom is on the map
The marker is on London, the point every sun reading and every call window on this page is worked out from.
An interactive map of London. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open London on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between London and major cities
Worked out at this instant rather than from a stored table, so daylight saving on either side is already in it.
| City | Time there now | Difference from London |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, CA | 12:10 pm | 8 hours behind London |
| Chicago, IL | 2:10 pm | 6 hours behind London |
| New York, NY | 3:10 pm | 5 hours behind London |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 4:10 pm | 4 hours behind London |
| Paris, France | 9:10 pm | 1 hour ahead of London |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 9:10 pm | 1 hour ahead of London |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 11:10 pm | 3 hours ahead of London |
| Delhi, India | 12:40 am | 4 hours 30 minutes ahead of London |
| Singapore, Singapore | 3:10 am | 7 hours ahead of London |
| Tokyo, Japan | 4:10 am | 8 hours ahead of London |
| Sydney, Australia | 5:10 am | 9 hours ahead of London |
Best time to call United Kingdom
A nine to five working day in London against a nine to five day elsewhere. The overlap column is the stretch when both desks are open, given on each side's own clock.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in London | Window there |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York the US East Coast | 5 hours ahead | 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm | 9:00 am to 12:00 pm |
| Los Angeles the US West Coast | 8 hours ahead | no shared working hours | try either side of the working day |
| London the United Kingdom | same clock | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm |
| Mumbai India | 4 hours 30 minutes behind | 9:00 am to 12:30 pm | 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm |
Daylight hours in London today
In London the sun rose at 6:53 am today and sets at 6:50 pm, giving 11 hours 57 minutes of daylight. The capital is losing 3 minutes 55 seconds of daylight a day at the moment, and the sun stands highest at 12:52 pm.
Solar noon in London is 12:52 pm, which is 52 minutes after clock noon. That gap is the capital sitting at 0.13 degrees west while its clock is set to Europe/London, plus the equation of time, which today runs 8.7 minutes ahead of mean time, plus an hour of daylight saving for part of the year.
Moon phase over London tonight
The moon is waning gibbous tonight, 15.7 days into the current lunation, with roughly 99 percent of the disc lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 as the United Kingdom reads the date, at 4:11 am local. The moon phase page has the full cycle.
Current time in United Kingdom cities
The 107 cities this site covers inside the United Kingdom, alphabetically, each with its own ticking clock and its own sunrise page.
Every IANA time zone in United Kingdom
These are the identifiers a computer uses. A program that stores Europe/London rather than UTC+1 keeps working through every future rule change, which is the whole reason the database is keyed this way.
Convert United Kingdom time to another zone
The converter pages below take BST against the zones people most often measure it from. Each one carries a full conversion table rather than a single answer.
Information about United Kingdom
the United Kingdom sits in Europe, carries the ISO country code GB and a population of about 68,350,000. Its capital London is at 51.51 degrees north, 0.13 degrees west, which is the coordinate every sunrise and solar noon on this page is computed from.
Upcoming dates in United Kingdom
Read on the United Kingdom's own clock, so the day counts below start from September 26 and not from a UTC date. The list is the internationally observed calendar plus the dates common across Europe, along with this country's own clock changes and the next solstices and equinoxes. National days set by a country's own statute are not included, because this site carries no statute table and a guessed one would be worse than an honest gap.
| Date | Day | What falls on it | Days away |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 25, 2026 | Sunday | Clocks go back in London UTC+1 becomes UTC+0 | 29 |
| December 21, 2026 | Monday | December solstice, 8:50 pm local astronomical | 86 |
| December 25, 2026 | Friday | Christmas Day observed widely | 90 |
| December 26, 2026 | Saturday | Boxing Day or St Stephen’s Day observed widely | 91 |
| December 31, 2026 | Thursday | New Year's Eve observance | 96 |
| January 1, 2027 | Friday | New Year's Day observed almost everywhere | 97 |
| March 20, 2027 | Saturday | March equinox, 8:24 pm local astronomical | 175 |
| March 26, 2027 | Friday | Good Friday movable, set by the Easter cycle | 181 |
| March 28, 2027 | Sunday | Easter Sunday movable, set by the Easter cycle | 183 |
| March 29, 2027 | Monday | Easter Monday movable, set by the Easter cycle | 184 |
Sun and moon in London today
The sun is up in London for 11 hours 57 minutes today, from 6:53 am to 6:50 pm. The moon sets in London at 6:31 am and comes up again at 6:28 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 London |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:00 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:40 am |
| Civil dawn | 6:20 am |
| Sunrise | 6:53 am |
| Solar noon | 12:52 pm |
| Sunset | 6:50 pm |
| Civil dusk | 7:23 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 8:02 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 8:42 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 London | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 6:20 am to 6:33 am | 0h 13m |
| Morning golden hour | 6:33 am to 7:37 am | 1h 05m |
| Evening golden hour | 6:06 pm to 7:10 pm | 1h 04m |
| Evening blue hour | 7:10 pm to 7:23 pm | 0h 13m |
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 London |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:28 pm |
| Moonset | 6:31 am |
| Phase | full moon, waxing |
| Illumination | 100% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 15.3 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 380,400 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: United Kingdom and four other places
Every hour of Saturday, September 26, 2026 in United Kingdom, read across 4 other places. Columns are United Kingdom 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
| United Kingdom 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United KingdomBST UTC+1 | 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 | 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 | 15 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 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 | 18 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 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 | 3:30+1 |
| SingaporeSGT UTC+8 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 0+1 | 1+1 | 2+1 | 3+1 | 4+1 | 5+1 | 6+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 Singapore are 15 hours apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 9:00 am in United Kingdom it is working hours in United Kingdom, Delhi and Singapore, 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 London
Seven days from September 26, 2026, computed for London at 51.51 degrees north, 0.13 degrees west, on the clock of Europe/London. 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 | 5:00 am | 6:53 am | 12:52 pm | 4:05 pm | 6:50 pm | 8:35 pm |
| Sunday September 27 | 5:02 am | 6:55 am | 12:52 pm | 4:03 pm | 6:48 pm | 8:33 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 5:04 am | 6:56 am | 12:51 pm | 4:01 pm | 6:45 pm | 8:31 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 5:05 am | 6:58 am | 12:51 pm | 4:00 pm | 6:43 pm | 8:28 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 5:07 am | 6:59 am | 12:51 pm | 3:58 pm | 6:41 pm | 8:26 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 5:09 am | 7:01 am | 12:50 pm | 3:56 pm | 6:38 pm | 8:23 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 5:11 am | 7:03 am | 12:50 pm | 3:55 pm | 6:36 pm | 8:21 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at London, 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 London
From London the qibla is 119.0 degrees on a true compass, which is east-southeast, or 29.0 degrees south of due east. The Kaaba is 4,794 km away, 2,979 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from London 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 London 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.
Questions about the time in United Kingdom
- What time is it in United Kingdom right now?
- It is 8:10 pm in London as this page was served, Saturday, September 26, 2026. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.
- What time zone is United Kingdom in?
- the United Kingdom uses Europe/London, currently BST at UTC+1.
- What is the UTC offset in United Kingdom?
- UTC+1 in London at this instant.
- Does United Kingdom observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. The next change is October 25, 2026.
- What time does the sun set in London today?
- 6:50 pm, after a sunrise at 6:53 am and 11 hours 57 minutes of daylight.
- When is the best time to call United Kingdom from the United States?
- Between 9:00 am and 12:00 pm New York time, which is 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm in London.
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