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9–17 in Istanbul vs UTC
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- Kurban Bayramı27 May 2026
- Demokrasi ve Millî Birlik Günü15 Jul 2026
- Zafer Bayramı30 Aug 2026
- Cumhuriyet Bayramı29 Oct 2026
- Yılbaşı1 Jan 2027
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About Istanbul
Home to roughly 15,462,452 residents, Istanbul is a global metropolis in Türkiye. Its terrain rests around 39 m of elevation.
The Europe/Istanbul zone governs civic time in Istanbul; this identifier is the canonical reference used by every operating system on Earth. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the temperate belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (41.01°).
Visitors will find prices listed in TRY; phones reach Türkiye via the +90 country code. Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent Istanbul's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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Questions about time in Istanbul
The current local time in Istanbul, Türkiye is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Istanbul uses the IANA time zone Europe/Istanbul, currently UTC+3.
Whether Istanbul 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.
Istanbul is currently 7 hours ahead of New York.
Istanbul is currently 2 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Istanbul are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (41.0082, 28.9784).
Türkiye uses the TRY currency and the +90 international dialing code.
Istanbul sits at 41.0082° N, 28.9784° E, 39 m above sea level, in Türkiye.