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9–17 in Edinburgh vs UTC
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- Christmas Day25 Dec 2026
- Boxing Day26 Dec 2026
- Boxing Day (substitute day)28 Dec 2026
- New Year's Day1 Jan 2027
- Mother's Day7 Mar 2027
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About Edinburgh
Home to roughly 488,050 residents, Edinburgh is a compact city in United Kingdom. The city sits at 47 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
For computers and clocks, Edinburgh is anchored to the Europe/London time zone, which encodes the city's daylight saving rules going back to the early 20th century. The subarctic, northern-hemisphere setting at 55.95° latitude defines its day-length swing across the year — long summer evenings and shorter winter days.
United Kingdom's currency is GBP and its calling prefix is +44. Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent Edinburgh's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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Questions about time in Edinburgh
The current local time in Edinburgh, United Kingdom is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Edinburgh uses the IANA time zone Europe/London, currently UTC+1.
Whether Edinburgh observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Europe/London) is the source of truth.
Edinburgh is currently 5 hours ahead of New York.
Edinburgh is currently in the same time as London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Edinburgh are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (55.9533, -3.1883).
United Kingdom uses the GBP currency and the +44 international dialing code.
Edinburgh sits at 55.9533° N, 3.1883° W, 47 m above sea level, in United Kingdom.