Indexed entity
Sofia is the sofia-BG record in Bulgaria: country slug bulgaria, city slug sofia, ISO BG, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Sofia.
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Live local time
Sofia, Bulgaria
01:01:23 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Europe/Sofia
Quick answer
It is currently 01:01:23 PM (EEST, UTC+03:00) in Sofia, Bulgaria — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
14°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
27°C
14°C
Wed
28°C
15°C
Thu
25°C
16°C
26% rain
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
Live ECB rate not available for this currency.
Conversion rates aren’t published for this currency by the ECB. The local code is shown for reference.
Today
Sunrise
05:50 AM
Sunset
08:58 PM
Day length
15h 8m
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 Sofia, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:01 AM UTC.
Current local time
01:01:23 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 Sofia right now
Nearest airport
SOF
Sofia Airport · 8 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 Sofia, Bulgaria.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 13:01 GMT+3
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Sofia 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
11:01 AM / -2h
Dubai
02:01 PM / +1h
Schedule risk
Unification Day on Sunday, September 6, 2026
Travel cue
SOF Sofia, 8 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:50 AM to 08:58 PM, with solar noon around 01:24 PM and total daylight of 15h 8m.
Mapped location
42.70°N, 23.32°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:01 AM / -2h
Good live-call window with Sofia right now.
New York
06:01 AM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:01 AM / -10h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:01 PM / +1h
Good live-call window with Sofia right now.
Singapore
06:01 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 Sofia.
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 Sofia right now.
Check local interruptions
Unification Day on Sunday, September 6, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: SOF Sofia, 8 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
Sofia 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 Sofia.
Canonical route
/time/bulgaria/sofia/
Catalog identity
sofia-BG · BG · Europe
Coordinate cell
42.70°N, 23.32°E · lat 42.698 · lon 23.324 · cell 4270:2332
Population record
1,152,556 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Europe/Sofia · GMT+3 · UTC+03:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+03:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Plovdiv, Bulgaria · 132 km
Nearest world hub
London · 2,015 km
Closest airport references
SOF Sofia 8 km
Zone peer roster
Plovdiv, Bulgaria · Varna, Bulgaria · Burgas, Bulgaria
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Sofia: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Sofia is the sofia-BG record in Bulgaria: country slug bulgaria, city slug sofia, ISO BG, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Sofia.
42.70°N, 23.32°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 42 and longitude band 23; exact decimal pair 42.69751, 23.32415.
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 Sofia 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.
Plovdiv [plovdiv-BG, BG, Europe/Sofia, 132 km]; Niš [nis-RS, RS, Europe/Belgrade, 135 km]; Kumanovo [kumanovo-MK, MK, Europe/Skopje, 146 km]; Skopje [skopje-MK, MK, Europe/Skopje, 174 km]; Prilep [prilep-MK, MK, Europe/Skopje, 210 km]; Thessaloníki [thessaloniki-GR, GR, Europe/Athens, 231 km]; Bitola [bitola-MK, MK, Europe/Skopje, 248 km]; Sector 6 [sector-6-RO, RO, Europe/Bucharest, 291 km]
Sofia 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 2,015 km; Dubai 3,498 km; New York 7,584 km; Singapore 9,130 km; Tokyo 9,172 km; São Paulo 10,263 km; Los Angeles 10,628 km; Sydney 15,436 km
SOF Sofia Airport in Sofia [BG, 8 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include SOF Sofia Airport in Sofia [BG].
Sofia renders Jun 2, 2026 · 13:01 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 keeps the manual city dossier tied to the concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Sofia.
Sofia is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 4 retained Bulgaria city pages. The route is /time/bulgaria/sofia/ and the city id is sofia-BG.
Sofia has 16 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.
Sofia is pinned at 42.70°N, 23.32°E; Plovdiv (132 km); London (2,015 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 (8 km) · Unification Day (Sunday, September 6, 2026) · 1 country airport reference · 15 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Sofia 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.
Sofia: Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain, in the western part of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river and has many mineral springs, such as the Sofia Central Mineral Baths. It has a humid continental climate.
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.
Sofia 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 23.32°, Sofia's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 27 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.
Sofia sits at 42.70°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 9 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 51 minutes on the December solstice.
Sofia sits at 42.70°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 9 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 51 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 16 (15h 19m)
Shortest day
Dec 19 (9h 2m)
Year-round average
12h 13m
Annual swing
6h 17m
See the full daylight curve for Sofia at /sun/sofia/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Sofia local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Sofia |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Capital status
National capital of Bulgaria
Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria, with a population of around 1.2 million, and the political, economic, and cultural centre of the country. It observes Eastern European Time (EET, UTC+2) and shifts to Eastern European Summer Time (EEST, UTC+3) during daylight saving, which in the European Union runs from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October. Sofia is one of the oldest cities in Europe, with a history of continuous settlement stretching back thousands of years through Thracian, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman periods, and Roman ruins are visible in the modern city centre. It sits at the foot of Vitosha Mountain, a popular natural park on the city's edge. Sofia is the seat of Bulgaria's national government and its leading hub for industry, finance, and education.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Sofia's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 01:01:23 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Sofia (UTC+03:00, EEST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:50 AM to 08:58 PM
Day length 15h 8m · Solar noon 01:24 PM
Next country holiday
Unification Day
Sunday, September 6, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Sofia local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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
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keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
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8 days to go
ICML 2026
keynoteMonday, July 6, 2026
34 days to go
Population
1.2M
Coordinates
42.70, 23.32
Timezone
Europe/Sofia
Indexed airports
1
Capital
Sofia
Languages
Bulgarian
Currency
BGN (лв)
Country area
110,879 km²
Sofia, Bulgaria (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Europe/Sofia (EEST, UTC+03:00); population ~1.2M.
Coordinates: 42.70°N, 23.32°E. Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, ~4739 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:50 AM and sets around 08:58 PM in Sofia — about 15h 8m of daylight. Bulgaria observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
Plovdiv (132 km from Sofia) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Bulgaria.
Next national holiday: Unification Day, 2026-09-06.
Sofia 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/sofia/.
Location context: 42.70°N, 23.32°E; population 1,152,556; nearest indexed city Plovdiv is about 132 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 2,015 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.
Sofia 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 23.32°, Sofia's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 27 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.
Sofia sits at 42.70°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 9 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 51 minutes on the December solstice.
Major metropolitan area with around 1.2 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Sofia: Plovdiv (same time), San Francisco (−10h), Los Angeles (−10h), New York City (−7h), Paris (−1h).
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 Sofia.
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City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Sofia: closest hubs London (~2,015 km), Dubai (~3,498 km), New York (~7,584 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~15,436 km).
Sofia sits inside Bulgaria — the Southeast Europe subregion, capital Sofia, languages Bulgarian, currency BGN (лв).
Closest indexed cities to Sofia: Plovdiv (132 km), Niš (135 km), Kumanovo (146 km), Skopje (174 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Sofia: Unification Day, Independence Day, Christmas Eve. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Bulgaria.
Closest curated airport references from Sofia: SOF Sofia (8 km).
Sofia AirportSOF
Sofia · 8 km from Sofia
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
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 | 11:01 AM | -2h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:01 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:01 AM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:01 PM | +1h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:01 PM | +5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:01 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:01 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:01 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
Sofia is in the Europe/Sofia timezone (EEST), with a UTC offset of +03:00.
Sofia 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 Sofia is UTC+03:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Sofia, 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 · 13:01 GMT+3. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Sofia sits at 42.70°N, 23.32°E in Bulgaria, with about 1.2M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Sofia is London, about 2,015 km away as the crow flies.
Plovdiv is the closest indexed city, roughly 132 km from Sofia.
Sofia Airport (SOF) is the closest curated airport reference, about 8 km from Sofia.
Unification Day is the next upcoming holiday in Bulgaria, on Sunday, September 6, 2026.
Sofia uses Bulgarian lev (BGN, symbol лв) as the local currency of Bulgaria.
The longest day of 2026 in Sofia falls on Jun 16 with about 15h 19m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 19 with 9h 2m; the year-round average is 12h 13m.
In Sofia 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.