Time in Copenhagen
Denmark · Europe/Copenhagen · latitude 55.68°
Reading your clock…
Copenhagen changes its clocks twice a year
Standard time is UTC+01:00 and daylight saving time is UTC+02:00. The shift is 1 hour, and it is the reason the distance between Copenhagen and anywhere else is not a single number.
| Date | Local time | Change | New offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday, 28 March 2027 | 02:00 → 03:00 | Forward 60 min | UTC+02:00 |
| Sunday, 31 October 2027 | 03:00 → 02:00 | Back 60 min | UTC+01:00 |
Time difference from Copenhagen
Where a range is shown, the gap genuinely changes during the year. That is not rounding or hedging — it is two governments moving their clocks on different weekends.
| City | Difference now | Across the year |
|---|---|---|
| London | 1 hour behind | constant |
| New York | 6 hours behind | −6h / −5h |
| Los Angeles | 9 hours behind | −9h / −8h |
| Chicago | 7 hours behind | −7h / −6h |
| Toronto | 6 hours behind | −6h / −5h |
| Paris | the same time | constant |
| Berlin | the same time | constant |
| Dubai | 3 hours ahead | +2h / +3h |
| Mumbai | 4 hours 30 minutes ahead | +3h30 / +4h30 |
| Singapore | 7 hours ahead | +6h / +7h |
| Hong Kong | 7 hours ahead | +6h / +7h |
| Tokyo | 8 hours ahead | +7h / +8h |
| Sydney | 10 hours ahead | +8h / +9h / +10h |
| Auckland | 12 hours ahead | +10h / +11h / +12h |
| São Paulo | 4 hours behind | −5h / −4h |
| UTC | 1 hour behind | −2h / −1h |
Daylight in Copenhagen through the year
From about 7.0 hours in December to 17.6 hours in June. This is the part a plain clock leaves out: 17:00 is a bright evening in one month and long dark in another.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 08:13 | 16:09 | 7h 56m |
| February | 07:14 | 17:16 | 10h 2m |
| March | 06:03 | 18:14 | 12h 11m |
| April | 04:44 | 19:16 | 14h 32m |
| May | 03:41 | 20:14 | 16h 33m |
| June | 03:15 | 20:48 | 17h 33m |
| July | 03:45 | 20:28 | 16h 43m |
| August | 04:42 | 19:25 | 14h 43m |
| September | 05:41 | 18:05 | 12h 24m |
| October | 06:41 | 16:48 | 10h 7m |
| November | 07:46 | 15:47 | 8h 1m |
| December | 08:28 | 15:29 | 7h 1m |
Daylight length is accurate. The clock times of sunrise and sunset assume each city sits at the centre of its time zone, which can put them up to about an hour and a quarter out for places near a zone's edge — Madrid being the standard example. Day length is unaffected.
Questions
About time in Copenhagen
What time zone is Copenhagen in?
Copenhagen uses the IANA time zone Europe/Copenhagen, which is UTC+01:00 in standard time and UTC+02:00 while daylight saving is in force.
Does Copenhagen observe daylight saving time?
Yes. Clocks in Copenhagen move by 1 hour, and the next change is on Sunday, 28 March 2027.
Why does the time difference to Copenhagen keep changing?
Because the two places do not change their clocks on the same weekend. New York is a clear example: it sits 6 hours behind, then 5 hours behind across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Copenhagen get?
Around 17.6 hours at the longest, in June, and about 7.0 hours at the shortest, in December. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Copenhagen's latitude of 55.68° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.