Time in Lisbon
Portugal · Europe/Lisbon · latitude 38.72°
Reading your clock…
Lisbon changes its clocks twice a year
Standard time is UTC+00:00 and daylight saving time is UTC+01:00. The shift is 1 hour, and it is the reason the distance between Lisbon and anywhere else is not a single number.
| Date | Local time | Change | New offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday, 25 October 2026 | 02:00 → 01:00 | Back 60 min | UTC+00:00 |
| Sunday, 28 March 2027 | 01:00 → 02:00 | Forward 60 min | UTC+01:00 |
| Sunday, 31 October 2027 | 02:00 → 01:00 | Back 60 min | UTC+00:00 |
Time difference from Lisbon
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 | the same time | constant |
| New York | 5 hours behind | −5h / −4h |
| Los Angeles | 8 hours behind | −8h / −7h |
| Chicago | 6 hours behind | −6h / −5h |
| Toronto | 5 hours behind | −5h / −4h |
| Paris | 1 hour ahead | constant |
| Berlin | 1 hour ahead | constant |
| Dubai | 3 hours ahead | +3h / +4h |
| Mumbai | 4 hours 30 minutes ahead | +4h30 / +5h30 |
| Singapore | 7 hours ahead | +7h / +8h |
| Hong Kong | 7 hours ahead | +7h / +8h |
| Tokyo | 8 hours ahead | +8h / +9h |
| Sydney | 9 hours ahead | +9h / +10h / +11h |
| Auckland | 11 hours ahead | +11h / +12h / +13h |
| São Paulo | 4 hours behind | −4h / −3h |
| UTC | 1 hour behind | −1h / 0 |
Daylight in Lisbon through the year
From about 9.4 hours in December to 14.9 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 | 07:15 | 17:08 | 9h 53m |
| February | 06:46 | 17:44 | 10h 58m |
| March | 06:05 | 18:13 | 12h 8m |
| April | 05:17 | 18:42 | 13h 25m |
| May | 04:44 | 19:10 | 14h 26m |
| June | 04:35 | 19:28 | 14h 53m |
| July | 04:51 | 19:22 | 14h 31m |
| August | 05:19 | 18:49 | 13h 30m |
| September | 05:46 | 18:01 | 12h 15m |
| October | 06:14 | 17:15 | 11h 1m |
| November | 06:49 | 16:44 | 9h 55m |
| December | 07:15 | 16:42 | 9h 27m |
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 Lisbon
What time zone is Lisbon in?
Lisbon uses the IANA time zone Europe/Lisbon, which is UTC+00:00 in standard time and UTC+01:00 while daylight saving is in force.
Does Lisbon observe daylight saving time?
Yes. Clocks in Lisbon move by 1 hour, and the next change is on Sunday, 25 October 2026.
Why does the time difference to Lisbon keep changing?
Because the two places do not change their clocks on the same weekend, and in opposite hemispheres they change in opposite directions. New York is a clear example: it sits 5 hours behind, then 4 hours behind across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Lisbon get?
Around 14.9 hours at the longest, in June, and about 9.4 hours at the shortest, in December. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Lisbon's latitude of 38.72° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.