Indexed entity
Lyon is the lyon-FR record in France: country slug france, city slug lyon, ISO FR, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Paris.
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Live local time
Lyon, France
12:39:49 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Europe/Paris
Quick answer
It is currently 12:39:49 PM (CEST, UTC+02:00) in Lyon, France — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
19°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
34°C
19°C
Wed
34°C
19°C
Thu
33°C
18°C
In 42 days
Tue, Jul 14, 2026
PublicIn 74 days
Assomption (Assumption Day)
Sat, Aug 15, 2026
PublicIn 152 days
Toussaint (All Saints' Day)
Sun, Nov 1, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Euro
1 USD = 0.8624 EUR
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
05:53 AM
Sunset
09:23 PM
Day length
15h 30m
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 Lyon, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:39 AM UTC.
Current local time
12:39:49 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CEST
Europe/Paris · UTC+02:00
Next holiday
Bastille Day
Tuesday, July 14, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Lyon right now
Nearest airport
LYS
Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport · 19 km
Indexed airports
15
Curated airport references available for France
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Lyon, France.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:39 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Lyon 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
11:39 AM / -1h
Dubai
02:39 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
Bastille Day on Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Travel cue
LYS Colombier-Saugnieu, Rhône, 19 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:53 AM to 09:23 PM, with solar noon around 01:38 PM and total daylight of 15h 30m.
Mapped location
45.75°N, 4.85°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:39 AM / -1h
Good live-call window with Lyon right now.
New York
06:39 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:39 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:39 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Lyon right now.
Singapore
06:39 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 Lyon.
LYS · Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport
Colombier-Saugnieu, Rhône
CFE · Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne airport
Clermont-Ferrand
MPL · Montpellier-Méditerranée Airport
Montpellier/Méditerranée
MRS · Marseille Provence Airport
Marignane, Bouches-du-Rhône
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Europe/Paris 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 Lyon right now.
Check local interruptions
Bastille Day on Tuesday, July 14, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: LYS Colombier-Saugnieu, Rhône, 19 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
Lyon 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 Lyon.
Canonical route
/time/france/lyon/
Catalog identity
lyon-FR · FR · Europe
Coordinate cell
45.75°N, 4.85°E · lat 45.749 · lon 4.848 · cell 4575:485
Population record
520,774 residents · country rank 3
Zone snapshot
Europe/Paris · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+01:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Genève, Switzerland · 112 km
Nearest world hub
London · 737 km
Closest airport references
LYS Colombier-Saugnieu, Rhône 19 km · CFE Clermont-Ferrand 130 km · MPL Montpellier/Méditerranée 252 km · MRS Marignane, Bouches-du-Rhône 259 km
Zone peer roster
Paris, France · Marseille, France · Toulouse, France
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Lyon: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Lyon is the lyon-FR record in France: country slug france, city slug lyon, ISO FR, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Paris.
45.75°N, 4.85°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 45 and longitude band 4; exact decimal pair 45.74906, 4.84789.
France: official name French Republic; capital Paris; region Europe; subregion Western Europe; country population 66,351,959; area 543,908 km²; languages French; currencies EUR euro. This is the country layer behind the Lyon clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
France: France, officially the French Republic, is a country primarily located in Western Europe. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its 18 integral regions—five of which are overseas—span a combined area of 632,702 km2 (244,288 sq mi), with a total population estimated at over 69.1 million in 2026. Its capital, largest city and main cultural and economic centre is Paris. Source: Wikipedia.
Genève [geneve-CH, CH, Europe/Zurich, 112 km]; Lausanne [lausanne-CH, CH, Europe/Zurich, 162 km]; Turin [turin-IT, IT, Europe/Rome, 234 km]; Marseille [marseille-FR, FR, Europe/Paris, 276 km]; Basel [basel-CH, CH, Europe/Zurich, 289 km]; Monaco [monaco-MC, MC, Europe/Monaco, 302 km]; Monte-Carlo [monte-carlo-MC, MC, Europe/Monaco, 302 km]; Milan [milan-IT, IT, Europe/Rome, 339 km]
Lyon is part of this indexed country cluster: Paris [paris-FR, Europe/Paris, pop 2,138,551]; Marseille [marseille-FR, Europe/Paris, pop 877,215]; Lyon [lyon-FR, Europe/Paris, pop 520,774]; Toulouse [toulouse-FR, Europe/Paris, pop 511,684].
London 737 km; Dubai 5,002 km; New York 6,148 km; São Paulo 9,291 km; Los Angeles 9,463 km; Tokyo 9,891 km; Singapore 10,594 km; Sydney 16,883 km
LYS Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport in Colombier-Saugnieu, Rhône [FR, 19 km]; CFE Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne airport in Clermont-Ferrand [FR, 130 km]; MPL Montpellier-Méditerranée Airport in Montpellier/Méditerranée [FR, 252 km]; MRS Marseille Provence Airport in Marignane, Bouches-du-Rhône [FR, 259 km]; BSL EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg in Bâle / Mulhouse [FR, 290 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include BES Brest Bretagne airport in Brest [FR]; BOD Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport in Bordeaux [FR]; BSL EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg in Bâle / Mulhouse [FR]; BVA Beauvais-Tillé airport in Beauvais [FR]; CDG Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris (Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise) [FR]; CFE Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne airport in Clermont-Ferrand [FR]; LBG Paris-Le Bourget International Airport in Paris [FR]; LIL Lille Airport in Lesquin [FR]; LYS Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport in Colombier-Saugnieu, Rhône [FR]; MPL Montpellier-Méditerranée Airport in Montpellier/Méditerranée [FR].
Lyon renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:39 GMT+2; GMT+2 at UTC+02:00; January UTC+01:00; July UTC+02:00; next holiday Bastille Day on 2026-07-14.
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 Lyon.
Lyon is a context-and-reference city; rank #3 of 4 retained France city pages. The route is /time/france/lyon/ and the city id is lyon-FR.
Lyon 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.
Lyon is pinned at 45.75°N, 4.85°E; Genève (112 km); London (737 km).
Europe/Paris 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 France.
LYS Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (19 km) · Bastille Day (Tuesday, July 14, 2026) · 15 country airport references · 11 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Lyon 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.
Lyon: Lyon is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, 391 km (243 mi) southeast of Paris, 278 km (173 mi) north of Marseille, and 113 km (70 mi) southwest of Geneva, Switzerland.
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/Paris.
Lyon 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 4.85°, Lyon's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 41 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.
Lyon sits at 45.75°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 31 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 29 minutes on the December solstice.
Lyon sits at 45.75°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 31 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 29 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 (15h 43m)
Shortest day
Dec 19 (8h 40m)
Year-round average
12h 14m
Annual swing
7h 3m
See the full daylight curve for Lyon at /sun/lyon/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Lyon local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Lyon |
|---|---|---|
| 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
11
Reference fields include Lyon's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:39:49 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Lyon (UTC+02:00, CEST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:53 AM to 09:23 PM
Day length 15h 30m · Solar noon 01:38 PM
Next country holiday
Bastille Day
Tuesday, July 14, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Lyon 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
520.8K
Coordinates
45.75, 4.85
Timezone
Europe/Paris
Indexed airports
15
Capital
Paris
Languages
French
Currency
EUR (€)
Country area
543,908 km²
Lyon, France (population rank #3 in this dataset). Time zone: Europe/Paris (CEST, UTC+02:00); population ~520.8K.
Coordinates: 45.75°N, 4.85°E. Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, ~5078 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:53 AM and sets around 09:23 PM in Lyon — about 15h 30m of daylight. France observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
Genève (112 km from Lyon) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 15 curated airport pages indexed for France.
Next national holiday: Bastille Day, 2026-07-14.
Lyon is indexed as a Europe city in the FR country record, using Europe/Paris as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/france/lyon/.
Location context: 45.75°N, 4.85°E; population 520,774; nearest indexed city Genève is about 112 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 737 km away.
Country planning context: capital Paris; subregion Western Europe; languages French; currency EUR (€); area 543,908 km²; 15 curated airport references; next holiday Bastille Day on 2026-07-14.
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/Paris.
Lyon 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 4.85°, Lyon's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 41 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.
Lyon sits at 45.75°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 31 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 29 minutes on the December solstice.
Sizeable city with about 521 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Lyon: Paris (same time), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), New York City (−6h), London (−1h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
france
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
CEST
IANA Zone
Europe/Paris
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 Lyon.
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City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Lyon: closest hubs London (~737 km), Dubai (~5,002 km), New York (~6,148 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~16,883 km).
Lyon sits inside France — the Western Europe subregion, capital Paris, languages French, currency EUR (€).
Closest indexed cities to Lyon: Genève (112 km), Lausanne (162 km), Turin (234 km), Marseille (276 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Lyon: Bastille Day, Assumption Day, All Saints' Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for France.
Closest curated airport references from Lyon: LYS Colombier-Saugnieu, Rhône (19 km), CFE Clermont-Ferrand (130 km), MPL Montpellier/Méditerranée (252 km).
France is a high-intent market for both business travel and tourism, which makes a richer country page especially worthwhile.
Lyon Saint-Exupéry AirportLYS
Colombier-Saugnieu, Rhône · 19 km from Lyon
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne airportCFE
Clermont-Ferrand · 130 km from Lyon
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 55m
Montpellier-Méditerranée AirportMPL
Montpellier/Méditerranée · 252 km from Lyon
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 4m
Marseille Provence AirportMRS
Marignane, Bouches-du-Rhône · 259 km from Lyon
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 5m
EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–FreiburgBSL
Bâle / Mulhouse · 290 km from Lyon
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 7m
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 | 11:39 AM | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:39 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:39 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:39 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:39 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:39 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:39 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:39 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Lyon Saint-Exupéry AirportLYS
Colombier-Saugnieu, Rhône · 19 km away
Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne airportCFE
Clermont-Ferrand · 130 km away
Montpellier-Méditerranée AirportMPL
Montpellier/Méditerranée · 252 km away
Marseille Provence AirportMRS
Marignane, Bouches-du-Rhône · 259 km away
EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–FreiburgBSL
Bâle / Mulhouse · 290 km away
Lyon is in the Europe/Paris timezone (CEST), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Lyon uses seasonal daylight saving rules in Europe/Paris. 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 Lyon is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Lyon, 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 · 12:39 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Lyon sits at 45.75°N, 4.85°E in France, with about 520.8K residents (rank #3 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Lyon is London, about 737 km away as the crow flies.
Genève is the closest indexed city, roughly 112 km from Lyon.
Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS) is the closest curated airport reference, about 19 km from Lyon.
Bastille Day is the next upcoming holiday in France, on Tuesday, July 14, 2026.
Lyon uses euro (EUR, symbol €) as the local currency of France.
The longest day of 2026 in Lyon falls on Jun 17 with about 15h 43m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 19 with 8h 40m; the year-round average is 12h 14m.
In Lyon 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.