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9–17 in London vs UTC
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- Boxing Day (substitute day)28 Dec 2026
- New Year's Day1 Jan 2027
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About London
Home to roughly 8,908,081 residents, London is a large regional centre in United Kingdom. Its terrain rests around 11 m of elevation.
The Europe/London zone governs civic time in London; this identifier is the canonical reference used by every operating system on Earth. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the subarctic belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (51.51°).
United Kingdom's currency is GBP and its calling prefix is +44. This page exposes London'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 London
The current local time in London, United Kingdom is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
London uses the IANA time zone Europe/London, currently UTC+1.
Whether London 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.
London is currently 5 hours ahead of New York.
London is currently in the same time as London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for London are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (51.5074, -0.1278).
United Kingdom uses the GBP currency and the +44 international dialing code.
London sits at 51.5074° N, 0.1278° W, 11 m above sea level, in United Kingdom.