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9–17 in Lyon vs UTC
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About Lyon
Home to roughly 513,275 residents, Lyon is a mid-sized urban centre in France. The city sits at 173 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
Lyon keeps time on the Europe/Paris IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the temperate belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (45.76°).
Locally, prices are quoted in EUR and the international dialing code is +33. This page exposes Lyon'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 Lyon
The current local time in Lyon, France is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Lyon uses the IANA time zone Europe/Paris, currently UTC+2.
Whether Lyon observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Europe/Paris) is the source of truth.
Lyon is currently 6 hours ahead of New York.
Lyon is currently 1 hour ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Lyon are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (45.7640, 4.8357).
France uses the EUR currency and the +33 international dialing code.
Lyon sits at 45.7640° N, 4.8357° E, 173 m above sea level, in France.