Ora Attuale a Hamburg, Germania — CET.

Hamburg, officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and seventh-largest city in the European Union, with a population of over 1.9 million. The Hamburg Metropolitan Region has a population of over 5.1 million and is the tenth-largest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. At the southern tip of the Jutland Peninsula, Hamburg stands on the branching River Elbe at the head of a 110 km (68 mi) estuary to the North Sea, at the confluence of the Alster and Bille. Hamburg is one of Germany's three city-states alongside Berlin and Bremen, and is surrounded by Schleswig-Holstein to the north and Lower Saxony to the south. The Port of Hamburg is Germany's largest and Europe's third-largest, after Rotterdam and Antwerp. The local dialect is a variant of Low Saxon.

Hamburg sits inside Germania in the Western Europe subregion, with Berlin as the national capital. The wider country profile covers about 83,491,249 people across roughly 357,114 km² and commonly used languages such as German while day-to-day pricing often runs through EUR (€) For timekeeping, the city follows Europe/Berlin (CET, UTC+02:00).

Hamburg still works as a strong timezone anchor even when the current page is the main curated reference for this exact zone-country combination. Closer regional neighbors include Hamburg-Mitte, Rotherbaum, St. Pauli, Altona-Altstadt, Harvestehude, so this page gives you a geographic cluster rather than pretending Hamburg sits alone on the map.

The nearest mapped city references are Hamburg-Mitte (2 km), Rotherbaum (2 km), St. Pauli (2 km), Altona-Altstadt (3 km), Harvestehude (3 km). That local-cluster view tends to be the fastest way to explain why schedules around Hamburg often spill into nearby commuter, logistics, and airport markets instead of stopping at one municipal boundary.

At the moment, there is no perfect live business-hour overlap with the main reference markets, which is why the meeting table below is useful for finding the next practical handoff window. The next important country scheduling signals are Labour Day, Ascension Day, Pentecost, so teams planning launches, support coverage, or travel around Hamburg should treat the holiday calendar as part of the timezone story rather than an afterthought.

Travel context matters too. The closest curated airport references from Hamburg currently include HAM Hamburg (9 km), FMO Greven (221 km), PAD Büren (235 km), BER Berlin (270 km), and those links are often the fastest way to line up local time with departure windows, airport transfers, or arrival-side planning.

For quick commercial context, the latest cached foreign-exchange snapshot is 1 EUR = 0.868 GBP · 1 EUR = 1.17 USD. That is not a trading screen, but it is helpful when people want a same-page sense of how Hamburg lines up with invoices, budgets, or partner conversations in other markets.

In 2025, A mass stabbing at a school in Nantes, France, leaves one person dead and three others wounded.. A date-specific history note like that gives the page a live daily element so returning crawls do not keep seeing the same frozen city copy.