Indexed entity
Plovdiv is the plovdiv-BG record in Bulgaria: country slug bulgaria, city slug plovdiv, ISO BG, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Sofia.
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Live local time
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
01:43:37 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Europe/Sofia
Quick answer
It is currently 01:43:37 PM (EEST, UTC+03:00) in Plovdiv, Bulgaria — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
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3-day forecast
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In 96 days
Ден на съединението (Unification Day)
Sun, Sep 6, 2026
PublicIn 112 days
Ден на независимостта на България (Independence Day)
Tue, Sep 22, 2026
PublicIn 205 days
Бъдни вечер (Christmas Eve)
Thu, Dec 24, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Bulgarian Lev
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Today
Sunrise
05:46 AM
Sunset
08:51 PM
Day length
15h 4m
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 Plovdiv, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:43 AM UTC.
Current local time
01:43:37 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
EEST
Europe/Sofia · UTC+03:00
Next holiday
Unification Day
Sunday, September 6, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Plovdiv right now
Nearest airport
SOF
Sofia Airport · 125 km
Indexed airports
1
Curated airport references available for Bulgaria
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 13:43 GMT+3
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Plovdiv is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+03:00
Zone label
GMT+3
London
11:43 AM / -2h
Dubai
02:43 PM / +1h
Schedule risk
Unification Day on Sunday, September 6, 2026
Travel cue
SOF Sofia, 125 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:46 AM to 08:51 PM, with solar noon around 01:19 PM and total daylight of 15h 5m.
Mapped location
42.15°N, 24.75°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:43 AM / -2h
Good live-call window with Plovdiv right now.
New York
06:43 AM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:43 AM / -10h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:43 PM / +1h
Good live-call window with Plovdiv right now.
Singapore
06:43 PM / +5h
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 Plovdiv.
SOF · Sofia Airport
Sofia
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Europe/Sofia for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+03:00; seasonal offset, UTC+02:00 in January and UTC+03:00 in July.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Plovdiv right now.
Check local interruptions
Unification Day on Sunday, September 6, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: SOF Sofia, 125 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
Next detected clock change: October 25, 2026, moving back from 2026-10-25 03:59 (GMT+3) to 2026-10-25 03:00 (GMT+2).
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Plovdiv 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 Plovdiv.
Canonical route
/time/bulgaria/plovdiv/
Catalog identity
plovdiv-BG · BG · Europe
Coordinate cell
42.15°N, 24.75°E · lat 42.154 · lon 24.750 · cell 4215:2475
Population record
329,489 residents · country rank 2
Zone snapshot
Europe/Sofia · GMT+3 · UTC+03:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+03:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Sofia, Bulgaria · 132 km
Nearest world hub
London · 2,144 km
Closest airport references
SOF Sofia 125 km
Zone peer roster
Sofia, Bulgaria · Varna, Bulgaria · Burgas, Bulgaria
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Plovdiv: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Plovdiv is the plovdiv-BG record in Bulgaria: country slug bulgaria, city slug plovdiv, ISO BG, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Sofia.
42.15°N, 24.75°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 42 and longitude band 24; exact decimal pair 42.15387, 24.75001.
Bulgaria: official name Republic of Bulgaria; capital Sofia; region Europe; subregion Southeast Europe; country population 6,437,360; area 110,879 km²; languages Bulgarian; currencies BGN Bulgarian lev. This is the country layer behind the Plovdiv clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Bulgaria: Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania across the Danube river to the north. It covers a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi) and is the tenth largest within the European Union and the sixteenth-largest country in Europe by area. Sofia is the nation's capital and largest city; other major cities include Plovdiv, Varna, and Burgas. Source: Wikipedia.
Sofia [sofia-BG, BG, Europe/Sofia, 132 km]; Thessaloníki [thessaloniki-GR, GR, Europe/Athens, 226 km]; Burgas [burgas-BG, BG, Europe/Sofia, 227 km]; Kumanovo [kumanovo-MK, MK, Europe/Skopje, 250 km]; Niš [nis-RS, RS, Europe/Belgrade, 266 km]; Sector 6 [sector-6-RO, RO, Europe/Bucharest, 274 km]; Skopje [skopje-MK, MK, Europe/Skopje, 274 km]; Bucharest [bucharest-RO, RO, Europe/Bucharest, 276 km]
Plovdiv is part of this indexed country cluster: Sofia [sofia-BG, Europe/Sofia, pop 1,152,556]; Plovdiv [plovdiv-BG, Europe/Sofia, pop 329,489]; Varna [varna-BG, Europe/Sofia, pop 318,737]; Burgas [burgas-BG, Europe/Sofia, pop 210,646].
London 2,144 km; Dubai 3,366 km; New York 7,714 km; Singapore 9,007 km; Tokyo 9,127 km; São Paulo 10,334 km; Los Angeles 10,740 km; Sydney 15,313 km
SOF Sofia Airport in Sofia [BG, 125 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include SOF Sofia Airport in Sofia [BG].
Plovdiv renders Jun 2, 2026 · 13:43 GMT+3; GMT+3 at UTC+03:00; January UTC+02:00; July UTC+03:00; next holiday Unification Day on 2026-09-06.
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 Plovdiv.
Plovdiv is a context-and-reference city; rank #2 of 4 retained Bulgaria city pages. The route is /time/bulgaria/plovdiv/ and the city id is plovdiv-BG.
Plovdiv 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.
Plovdiv is pinned at 42.15°N, 24.75°E; Sofia (132 km); London (2,144 km).
Europe/Sofia resolves to seasonal offset split: UTC+02:00 in January and UTC+03:00 in July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Bulgaria.
SOF Sofia Airport (125 km) · Unification Day (Sunday, September 6, 2026) · 1 country airport reference · 15 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Plovdiv 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.
Plovdiv: Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria and the most populous city in the Bulgarian part of the historic region of Thrace, located 144 km southeast of the capital Sofia. It had a population of 329,489 as of 2024 and 540,000 in its greater metropolitan area. An important economic, transport, cultural, and educational hub of Bulgaria, Plovdiv was the European Capital of Culture in 1999 and 2019, and joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities in 2016.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC+02:00 and summer UTC+03:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone Europe/Sofia.
Plovdiv is listed in the dataset snapshot as 3 hours ahead of UTC (offset +03:00). 2 hours ahead of London, 6 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 24.75°, Plovdiv's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 21 minutes after civil 12:00 under the sampled +03:00 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.
Plovdiv sits at 42.15°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 5 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 55 minutes on the December solstice.
Plovdiv sits at 42.15°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 5 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 55 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 20 (15h 16m)
Shortest day
Dec 17 (9h 6m)
Year-round average
12h 13m
Annual swing
6h 10m
See the full daylight curve for Plovdiv at /sun/plovdiv/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Plovdiv local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Plovdiv |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 16:00 - 00:00 (next day) |
| London | Europe/London | 11:00 - 19:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 06:30 - 14:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 04:00 - 12:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 04:00 - 12:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 03:00 - 11:00 |
Public holidays in 2026
15
Reference fields include Plovdiv's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 01:43:37 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Plovdiv (UTC+03:00, EEST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:46 AM to 08:51 PM
Day length 15h 5m · Solar noon 01:19 PM
Next country holiday
Unification Day
Sunday, September 6, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Plovdiv local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Mobile World Congress 2027
keynoteMonday, March 1, 2027
272 days to go
Xbox Games Showcase 2026
keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
Code with Claude Tokyo 2026
keynoteWednesday, June 10, 2026
8 days to go
ICML 2026
keynoteMonday, July 6, 2026
34 days to go
Gamescom 2026
keynoteWednesday, August 26, 2026
85 days to go
IFA Berlin 2026
keynoteFriday, September 4, 2026
94 days to go
Population
329.5K
Coordinates
42.15, 24.75
Timezone
Europe/Sofia
Indexed airports
1
Capital
Sofia
Languages
Bulgarian
Currency
BGN (лв)
Country area
110,879 km²
Plovdiv, Bulgaria (population rank #2 in this dataset). Time zone: Europe/Sofia (EEST, UTC+03:00); population ~329.5K.
Coordinates: 42.15°N, 24.75°E. Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, ~4679 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:46 AM and sets around 08:51 PM in Plovdiv — about 15h 5m of daylight. Bulgaria observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
Sofia (132 km from Plovdiv) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Bulgaria.
Next national holiday: Unification Day, 2026-09-06.
Plovdiv is indexed as a Europe city in the BG country record, using Europe/Sofia as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/bulgaria/plovdiv/.
Location context: 42.15°N, 24.75°E; population 329,489; nearest indexed city Sofia is about 132 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 2,144 km away.
Country planning context: capital Sofia; subregion Southeast Europe; languages Bulgarian; currency BGN (лв); area 110,879 km²; 1 curated airport references; next holiday Unification Day on 2026-09-06.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC+02:00 and summer UTC+03:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone Europe/Sofia.
Plovdiv is listed in the dataset snapshot as 3 hours ahead of UTC (offset +03:00). 2 hours ahead of London, 6 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 24.75°, Plovdiv's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 21 minutes after civil 12:00 under the sampled +03:00 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.
Plovdiv sits at 42.15°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 5 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 55 minutes on the December solstice.
Mid-sized city with around 329 thousand residents — busy enough to keep regular international business hours, small enough to retain a regional character. (Plovdiv city-proper figure.)
Related clock anchors for Plovdiv: Sofia (same time), San Francisco (−10h), Los Angeles (−10h), New York City (−7h), Tokyo (+6h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
bulgaria
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
EEST
IANA Zone
Europe/Sofia
UTC Offset
UTC+03:00
DST Status
Observing DST
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
London
-2h
New York
-7h
Los Angeles
-10h
Dubai
+1h
Singapore
+5h
Tokyo
+6h
Sydney
+7h
São Paulo
-6h
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 Plovdiv.
Public-disclosure tracker
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G7 Évian Summit
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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 Plovdiv: closest hubs London (~2,144 km), Dubai (~3,366 km), New York (~7,714 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~15,313 km).
Plovdiv sits inside Bulgaria — the Southeast Europe subregion, capital Sofia, languages Bulgarian, currency BGN (лв).
Closest indexed cities to Plovdiv: Sofia (132 km), Thessaloníki (226 km), Burgas (227 km), Kumanovo (250 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Plovdiv: Unification Day, Independence Day, Christmas Eve. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Bulgaria.
Closest curated airport references from Plovdiv: SOF Sofia (125 km).
Sofia AirportSOF
Sofia · 125 km from Plovdiv
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 55m
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 | 11:43 AM | -2h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:43 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:43 AM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:43 PM | +1h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:43 PM | +5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:43 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:43 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:43 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
Plovdiv is in the Europe/Sofia timezone (EEST), with a UTC offset of +03:00.
Plovdiv uses seasonal daylight saving rules in Europe/Sofia. The current offset is UTC+03:00; January resolves to UTC+02:00 and July resolves to UTC+03:00.
The current UTC offset for Plovdiv is UTC+03:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Plovdiv, 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 · 13:43 GMT+3. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Plovdiv sits at 42.15°N, 24.75°E in Bulgaria, with about 329.5K residents (rank #2 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Plovdiv is London, about 2,144 km away as the crow flies.
Sofia is the closest indexed city, roughly 132 km from Plovdiv.
Sofia Airport (SOF) is the closest curated airport reference, about 125 km from Plovdiv.
Unification Day is the next upcoming holiday in Bulgaria, on Sunday, September 6, 2026.
Plovdiv uses Bulgarian lev (BGN, symbol лв) as the local currency of Bulgaria.
The longest day of 2026 in Plovdiv falls on Jun 20 with about 15h 16m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 17 with 9h 6m; the year-round average is 12h 13m.
In Plovdiv local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 16:00-00:00 (next day); London 11:00-19:00; Frankfurt 10:00-18:00; Dubai 08:00-16:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.