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9–17 in Bucharest vs UTC
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About Bucharest
Home to roughly 1,883,425 residents, Bucharest is a notable city in Romania. Its terrain rests around 81 m of elevation.
Bucharest keeps time on the Europe/Bucharest IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. The temperate, northern-hemisphere setting at 44.43° latitude defines its day-length swing across the year — long summer evenings and shorter winter days.
Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent Bucharest's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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Questions about time in Bucharest
The current local time in Bucharest, Romania is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Bucharest uses the IANA time zone Europe/Bucharest, currently UTC+3.
Whether Bucharest observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Europe/Bucharest) is the source of truth.
Bucharest is currently 7 hours ahead of New York.
Bucharest is currently 2 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Bucharest are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (44.4268, 26.1025).
Currency and dialing-code information is not available for this entry.
Bucharest sits at 44.4268° N, 26.1025° E, 81 m above sea level, in Romania.