Indexed entity
Gent is the gent-BE record in Belgium: country slug belgium, city slug gent, ISO BE, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Brussels.
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Live local time
Gent, Belgium
12:41:39 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Europe/Brussels
Quick answer
It is currently 12:41:39 PM (CEST, UTC+02:00) in Gent, Belgium — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
20°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
34°C
21°C
Wed
27°C
19°C
Thu
29°C
15°C
In 49 days
Nationale feestdag (Belgian National Day)
Tue, Jul 21, 2026
PublicIn 74 days
Onze Lieve Vrouw hemelvaart (Assumption Day)
Sat, Aug 15, 2026
PublicIn 152 days
Allerheiligen (All Saints' Day)
Sun, Nov 1, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Euro
1 USD = 0.8624 EUR
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
05:35 AM
Sunset
09:51 PM
Day length
16h 16m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Gent, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:41 AM UTC.
Current local time
12:41:39 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CEST
Europe/Brussels · UTC+02:00
Next holiday
Belgian National Day
Tuesday, July 21, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Gent right now
Nearest airport
BRU
Brussels Airport · 56 km
Indexed airports
3
Curated airport references available for Belgium
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Gent, Belgium.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:41 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Gent is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+02:00
Zone label
GMT+2
London
11:41 AM / -1h
Dubai
02:41 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
Belgian National Day on Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Travel cue
BRU Zaventem, 56 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:35 AM to 09:51 PM, with solar noon around 01:43 PM and total daylight of 16h 16m.
Mapped location
51.05°N, 3.72°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:41 AM / -1h
Good live-call window with Gent right now.
New York
06:41 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:41 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:41 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Gent right now.
Singapore
06:41 PM / +6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Gent.
BRU · Brussels Airport
Zaventem
OST · Ostend-Bruges International Airport
Oostende
CRL · Brussels South Charleroi Airport
Charleroi
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Europe/Brussels for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+02:00; seasonal offset, UTC+01:00 in January and UTC+02:00 in July.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Gent right now.
Check local interruptions
Belgian National Day on Tuesday, July 21, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: BRU Zaventem, 56 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
Next detected clock change: October 25, 2026, moving back from 2026-10-25 02:59 (GMT+2) to 2026-10-25 02:00 (GMT+1).
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Gent has a detected clock-change edge. Re-check recurring meetings within two weeks of October 25, 2026, especially if the other city does not change clocks on the same weekend.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Gent.
Canonical route
/time/belgium/gent/
Catalog identity
gent-BE · BE · Europe
Coordinate cell
51.05°N, 3.72°E · lat 51.050 · lon 3.717 · cell 5105:372
Population record
265,086 residents · country rank 3
Zone snapshot
Europe/Brussels · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+01:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Brussels, Belgium · 50 km
Nearest world hub
London · 272 km
Closest airport references
BRU Zaventem 56 km · OST Oostende 61 km · CRL Charleroi 84 km
Zone peer roster
Brussels, Belgium · Antwerpen, Belgium · Charleroi, Belgium
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Gent: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Gent is the gent-BE record in Belgium: country slug belgium, city slug gent, ISO BE, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Brussels.
51.05°N, 3.72°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 51 and longitude band 3; exact decimal pair 51.05000, 3.71667.
Belgium: official name Kingdom of Belgium; capital Brussels; region Europe; subregion Western Europe; country population 11,825,551; area 30,528 km²; languages German, French, Dutch; currencies EUR euro. This is the country layer behind the Gent clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Belgium: Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the south, and the North Sea to the west. Belgium covers an area of 30,689 km2 (11,849 sq mi) and has a population of more than 11.8 million; its population density of 383/km2 (990/sq mi) ranks 22nd in the world and sixth in Europe. The capital and largest metropolitan region is Brussels; other major cities are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liège, Bruges, Namur, and Leuven. Source: Wikipedia.
Brussels [brussels-BE, BE, Europe/Brussels, 50 km]; Antwerpen [antwerpen-BE, BE, Europe/Brussels, 51 km]; Charleroi [charleroi-BE, BE, Europe/Brussels, 88 km]; Rotterdam [rotterdam-NL, NL, Europe/Amsterdam, 110 km]; The Hague [the-hague-NL, NL, Europe/Amsterdam, 121 km]; Utrecht [utrecht-NL, NL, Europe/Amsterdam, 151 km]; Amsterdam [amsterdam-NL, NL, Europe/Amsterdam, 168 km]; Luxembourg [luxembourg-LU, LU, Europe/Luxembourg, 235 km]
Gent is part of this indexed country cluster: Brussels [brussels-BE, Europe/Brussels, pop 1,019,022]; Antwerpen [antwerpen-BE, Europe/Brussels, pop 529,247]; Gent [gent-BE, Europe/Brussels, pop 265,086]; Charleroi [charleroi-BE, Europe/Brussels, pop 200,132].
London 272 km; Dubai 5,201 km; New York 5,839 km; Los Angeles 8,985 km; Tokyo 9,455 km; São Paulo 9,644 km; Singapore 10,594 km; Sydney 16,777 km
BRU Brussels Airport in Zaventem [BE, 56 km]; OST Ostend-Bruges International Airport in Oostende [BE, 61 km]; CRL Brussels South Charleroi Airport in Charleroi [BE, 84 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include BRU Brussels Airport in Zaventem [BE]; CRL Brussels South Charleroi Airport in Charleroi [BE]; OST Ostend-Bruges International Airport in Oostende [BE].
Gent renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:41 GMT+2; GMT+2 at UTC+02:00; January UTC+01:00; July UTC+02:00; next holiday Belgian National Day on 2026-07-21.
This evidence pack is what keeps smaller city pages from reading like timezone templates: concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Gent.
Gent is a context-and-reference city; rank #3 of 4 retained Belgium city pages. The route is /time/belgium/gent/ and the city id is gent-BE.
Gent has 15 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Gent is pinned at 51.05°N, 3.72°E; Brussels (50 km); London (272 km).
Europe/Brussels resolves to seasonal offset split: UTC+01:00 in January and UTC+02:00 in July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Belgium.
BRU Brussels Airport (56 km) · Belgian National Day (Tuesday, July 21, 2026) · 3 country airport references · 14 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Gent uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Ghent: Ghent is a city and a municipality in the East Flanders province of the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the province and the third largest in the country, after Brussels and Antwerp. It is a port and university city.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC+01:00 and summer UTC+02:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone Europe/Brussels.
Gent is listed in the dataset snapshot as 2 hours ahead of UTC (offset +02:00). 1 hour ahead of London, 7 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 3.72°, Gent's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 45 minutes after civil 12:00 under the sampled +02:00 civil offset; during the alternate seasonal offset this shifts by about one hour on the clock — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Gent sits at 51.05°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 16 hours 19 minutes on the June solstice and about 7 hours 41 minutes on the December solstice.
Gent sits at 51.05°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 16 hours 19 minutes on the June solstice and about 7 hours 41 minutes on the December solstice.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Jun 17 (16h 33m)
Shortest day
Dec 19 (7h 54m)
Year-round average
12h 16m
Annual swing
8h 39m
See the full daylight curve for Gent at /sun/gent/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Gent local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Gent |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 15:00 - 23:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 07:00 - 15:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 05:30 - 13:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 03:00 - 11:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 03:00 - 11:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 02:00 - 10:00 |
Public holidays in 2026
14
Reference fields include Gent's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:41:39 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Gent (UTC+02:00, CEST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:35 AM to 09:51 PM
Day length 16h 16m · Solar noon 01:43 PM
Next country holiday
Belgian National Day
Tuesday, July 21, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Gent local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Gamescom 2026
keynoteWednesday, August 26, 2026
85 days to go
IFA Berlin 2026
keynoteFriday, September 4, 2026
94 days to go
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
keynoteSunday, December 6, 2026
187 days to go
Mobile World Congress 2027
keynoteMonday, March 1, 2027
272 days to go
Xbox Games Showcase 2026
keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
Population
265.1K
Coordinates
51.05, 3.72
Timezone
Europe/Brussels
Indexed airports
3
Capital
Brussels
Languages
German, French
Currency
EUR (€)
Country area
30,528 km²
Gent, Belgium (population rank #3 in this dataset). Time zone: Europe/Brussels (CEST, UTC+02:00); population ~265.1K.
Coordinates: 51.05°N, 3.72°E. Northern Hemisphere high mid-latitudes, ~5667 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:35 AM and sets around 09:51 PM in Gent — about 16h 16m of daylight. Belgium observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
Brussels (50 km from Gent) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 3 curated airport pages indexed for Belgium.
Next national holiday: Belgian National Day, 2026-07-21.
Gent is indexed as a Europe city in the BE country record, using Europe/Brussels as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/belgium/gent/.
Location context: 51.05°N, 3.72°E; population 265,086; nearest indexed city Brussels is about 50 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 272 km away.
Country planning context: capital Brussels; subregion Western Europe; languages German, French, Dutch; currency EUR (€); area 30,528 km²; 3 curated airport references; next holiday Belgian National Day on 2026-07-21.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC+01:00 and summer UTC+02:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone Europe/Brussels.
Gent is listed in the dataset snapshot as 2 hours ahead of UTC (offset +02:00). 1 hour ahead of London, 7 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 3.72°, Gent's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 45 minutes after civil 12:00 under the sampled +02:00 civil offset; during the alternate seasonal offset this shifts by about one hour on the clock — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Gent sits at 51.05°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 16 hours 19 minutes on the June solstice and about 7 hours 41 minutes on the December solstice.
Mid-sized city with around 265 thousand residents — busy enough to keep regular international business hours, small enough to retain a regional character. (Gent city-proper figure.)
Related clock anchors for Gent: Brussels (same time), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), London (−1h), Berlin (same time).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
belgium
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
CEST
IANA Zone
Europe/Brussels
UTC Offset
UTC+02:00
DST Status
Observing DST
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
London
-1h
New York
-6h
Los Angeles
-9h
Dubai
+2h
Singapore
+6h
Tokyo
+7h
Sydney
+8h
São Paulo
-5h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Gent.
Public-disclosure tracker
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NATO Summit 2026 (The Hague)
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Gent: closest hubs London (~272 km), Dubai (~5,201 km), New York (~5,839 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~16,777 km).
Gent sits inside Belgium — the Western Europe subregion, capital Brussels, languages German, French, Dutch, currency EUR (€).
Closest indexed cities to Gent: Brussels (50 km), Antwerpen (51 km), Charleroi (88 km), Rotterdam (110 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Gent: Belgian National Day, Assumption Day, All Saints' Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Belgium.
Closest curated airport references from Gent: BRU Zaventem (56 km), OST Oostende (61 km), CRL Charleroi (84 km).
Brussels AirportBRU
Zaventem · 56 km from Gent
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 49m
Ostend-Bruges International AirportOST
Oostende · 61 km from Gent
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 50m
Brussels South Charleroi AirportCRL
Charleroi · 84 km from Gent
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 51m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
2 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:41 AM | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:41 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:41 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:41 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:41 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:41 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:41 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:41 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Gent is in the Europe/Brussels timezone (CEST), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Gent uses seasonal daylight saving rules in Europe/Brussels. The current offset is UTC+02:00; January resolves to UTC+01:00 and July resolves to UTC+02:00.
The current UTC offset for Gent is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Gent, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 12:41 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Gent sits at 51.05°N, 3.72°E in Belgium, with about 265.1K residents (rank #3 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Gent is London, about 272 km away as the crow flies.
Brussels is the closest indexed city, roughly 50 km from Gent.
Brussels Airport (BRU) is the closest curated airport reference, about 56 km from Gent.
Belgian National Day is the next upcoming holiday in Belgium, on Tuesday, July 21, 2026.
Gent uses euro (EUR, symbol €) as the local currency of Belgium.
The longest day of 2026 in Gent falls on Jun 17 with about 16h 33m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 19 with 7h 54m; the year-round average is 12h 16m.
In Gent local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 15:00-23:00; London 10:00-18:00; Frankfurt 09:00-17:00; Dubai 07:00-15:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.