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9–17 in Ankara vs UTC
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- Yılbaşı1 Jan 2027
- Ramazan Bayramı9 Mar 2027
- Ulusal Egemenlik ve Çocuk Bayramı23 Apr 2027
- Emek ve Dayanışma Günü1 May 2027
- Kurban Bayramı16 May 2027
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About Ankara
Home to roughly 5,639,076 residents, Ankara is a large regional centre in Türkiye. Its terrain rests around 938 m of elevation.
For computers and clocks, Ankara is anchored to the Europe/Istanbul time zone, which encodes the city's daylight saving rules going back to the early 20th century. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the temperate belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (39.93°).
Visitors will find prices listed in TRY; phones reach Türkiye via the +90 country code. This page exposes Ankara's exact local time alongside sunrise, sunset, public holidays, and a structured-data feed at the JSON link below — useful for spreadsheets, scheduling tools, and AI assistants alike.
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Questions about time in Ankara
The current local time in Ankara, Türkiye is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Ankara uses the IANA time zone Europe/Istanbul, currently UTC+3.
Whether Ankara observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Europe/Istanbul) is the source of truth.
Ankara is currently 8 hours ahead of New York.
Ankara is currently 3 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Ankara are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (39.9334, 32.8597).
Türkiye uses the TRY currency and the +90 international dialing code.
Ankara sits at 39.9334° N, 32.8597° E, 938 m above sea level, in Türkiye.