Huidige Tijd in Wakefield, Verenigd Koninkrijk — BST.

Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder. The city had a population of 109,766 in the 2021 census, up from 99,251 in the 2011 census. The city is the administrative centre of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, which had a 2024 population of 367,666, the 27th most populous district in England. It is part of the West Yorkshire Built-up Area and the Yorkshire and the Humber region.

Reading Wakefield against the global hubs: London (~259 km), New York (~5,411 km), Dubai (~5,609 km) are the close ones, with Sydney (~16,944 km) sitting on the opposite side of the planet — a good gut check when judging logistics windows.

Wakefield sits inside Verenigd Koninkrijk — the Northern Europe subregion, capital London, languages English, currency GBP (£).

The closest mapped neighbors of Wakefield are Lofthouse (5 km), Ossett (5 km), Dewsbury (9 km), Morley (9 km), so commuter, logistics and same-day-trip planning will usually pull from this cluster.

Upcoming country holiday signals around Wakefield: Early May Bank Holiday, Spring Bank Holiday, World Cup Bank Holiday. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Verenigd Koninkrijk.

Closest curated airport references from Wakefield: LBA Leeds, West Yorkshire (23 km), MAN Manchester, Greater Manchester (64 km), EMA Nottingham, Leicestershire (95 km).

In 2025, An overvoltage incident results in a widespread power outage on the Iberian Peninsula and southwestern France.