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9–17 in Manchester vs UTC
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- Father's Day21 Jun 2026
- Christmas Day25 Dec 2026
- Boxing Day26 Dec 2026
- Boxing Day (substitute day)28 Dec 2026
- New Year's Day1 Jan 2027
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About Manchester
Home to roughly 547,627 residents, Manchester is a mid-sized urban centre in United Kingdom. The city sits at 38 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
The Europe/London zone governs civic time in Manchester; 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 (53.48°).
Locally, prices are quoted in GBP and the international dialing code is +44. Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent Manchester's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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Questions about time in Manchester
The current local time in Manchester, United Kingdom is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Manchester uses the IANA time zone Europe/London, currently UTC+1.
Whether Manchester 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.
Manchester is currently 5 hours ahead of New York.
Manchester is currently in the same time as London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Manchester are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (53.4808, -2.2426).
United Kingdom uses the GBP currency and the +44 international dialing code.
Manchester sits at 53.4808° N, 2.2426° W, 38 m above sea level, in United Kingdom.