Indexed entity
Köln is the koln-DE record in Germany: country slug germany, city slug koln, ISO DE, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Berlin.
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Live local time
Köln, Germany
12:01:05 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Europe/Berlin
Quick answer
It is currently 12:01:05 PM (CEST, UTC+02:00) in Köln, Germany — Business hours.
Pronunciation
In 123 days
Tag der Deutschen Einheit (German Unity Day)
Sat, Oct 3, 2026
PublicIn 206 days
Erster Weihnachtstag (Christmas Day)
Fri, Dec 25, 2026
PublicIn 207 days
Zweiter Weihnachtstag (St. Stephen's Day)
Sat, Dec 26, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Euro
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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 Köln, 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
12:01:05 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CEST
Europe/Berlin · UTC+02:00
Next holiday
Corpus Christi
Thursday, June 4, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Köln right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Köln
Indexed airports
15
Curated airport references available for Germany
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Köln, Germany.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:01 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Köln 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
11:01 AM / -1h
Dubai
02:01 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
Corpus Christi on Thursday, June 4, 2026
Travel cue
No nearby airport or mapped city cue available
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:01 AM / -1h
Good live-call window with Köln right now.
New York
06:01 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:01 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:01 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Köln right now.
Singapore
06:01 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 Köln.
No curated airport is currently mapped close enough to show as a planning cue.
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Europe/Berlin 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 Köln right now.
Check local interruptions
Corpus Christi on Thursday, June 4, 2026. Nearest mapped context: No nearby airport or mapped city cue available.
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
Köln 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 Köln.
Canonical route
/time/germany/koln/
Catalog identity
koln-DE · DE · Europe
Population record
No population figure in the indexed city snapshot for koln-DE
Zone snapshot
Europe/Berlin · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+01:00 / UTC+02:00
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Köln
Zone peer roster
Berlin, Germany · Hamburg, Germany · Munich, Germany
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Köln: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Köln is the koln-DE record in Germany: country slug germany, city slug koln, ISO DE, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Berlin.
Germany: official name Federal Republic of Germany; capital Berlin; region Europe; subregion Western Europe; country population 83,491,249; area 357,114 km²; languages German; currencies EUR euro. This is the country layer behind the Köln clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Germany: Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Western and Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north with the Alps to the south. Its sixteen constituent states have a total population of over 82 million, making it the most populous member state of the European Union (EU). Germany borders Denmark to the north; Poland and the Czech Republic to the east; Austria and Switzerland to the south; and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its main financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Source: Wikipedia.
Köln is part of this indexed country cluster: Berlin [berlin-DE, Europe/Berlin, pop 3,426,354]; Hamburg [hamburg-DE, Europe/Berlin, pop 1,845,229]; Munich [munich-DE, Europe/Berlin, pop 1,260,391]; Köln [koln-DE, Europe/Berlin].
Köln has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Germany.
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include BER Berlin Brandenburg Airport in Berlin [DE]; CGN Cologne Bonn Airport in Köln (Cologne) [DE]; DRS Dresden Airport in Dresden [DE]; DTM Dortmund Airport in Dortmund [DE]; DUS Düsseldorf Airport in Düsseldorf [DE]; FKB Karlsruhe Baden-Baden Airport in Rheinmünster [DE]; FMM Memmingen Allgau Airport in Memmingen [DE]; FMO Münster Osnabrück Airport in Greven [DE]; FRA Frankfurt Main Airport in Frankfurt am Main [DE]; HAM Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport in Hamburg [DE].
Köln renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:01 GMT+2; GMT+2 at UTC+02:00; January UTC+01:00; July UTC+02:00; next holiday Corpus Christi on 2026-06-04.
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 Köln.
Köln is a context-and-reference city; rank #4 of 4 retained Germany city pages. The route is /time/germany/koln/ and the city id is koln-DE.
Köln has 9 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.
Köln has no coordinate pair in this snapshot, so the page relies on country, timezone, holiday, and catalog identity rather than distance calculations.
Europe/Berlin 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 Germany.
Köln has no direct nearby-airport handoff · Corpus Christi (Thursday, June 4, 2026) · 15 country airport references · 19 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Köln 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.
Cologne: Cologne is the fourth-most populous city of Germany and the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region. Cologne is also part of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, the second biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Centered on the left bank of the Rhine, Cologne is located on the River Rhine, about 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of the North Rhine-Westphalia state capital Düsseldorf and 22 kilometres (14 mi) northwest of Bonn, the former capital of West Germany.
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/Berlin.
Köln is listed in the dataset snapshot as 2 hours ahead of UTC (offset +02:00). 1 hour ahead of London, 7 hours behind Tokyo.
Related clock anchors: Berlin (same time), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), Mumbai (+3.5h), São Paulo (−5h)
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Köln local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Köln |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 15:00 - 23:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| 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
19
Reference fields include Köln's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:01:05 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Köln (UTC+02:00, CEST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Next country holiday
Corpus Christi
Thursday, June 4, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Köln local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
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187 days to go
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272 days to go
Xbox Games Showcase 2026
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5 days to go
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Population
—
Coordinates
—
Timezone
Europe/Berlin
Indexed airports
15
Capital
Berlin
Languages
German
Currency
EUR (€)
Country area
357,114 km²
Köln, Germany (population rank #4 in this dataset). Time zone: Europe/Berlin (CEST, UTC+02:00).
Berlin (the closest mapped neighbor on this page) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 15 curated airport pages indexed for Germany.
Next national holiday: Corpus Christi, 2026-06-04.
Köln is indexed as a Europe city in the DE country record, using Europe/Berlin as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/germany/koln/.
Coordinate cues are not available for Köln; this page leans on timezone, holiday, and regional links instead.
Country planning context: capital Berlin; subregion Western Europe; languages German; currency EUR (€); area 357,114 km²; 15 curated airport references; next holiday Corpus Christi on 2026-06-04.
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/Berlin.
Köln is listed in the dataset snapshot as 2 hours ahead of UTC (offset +02:00). 1 hour ahead of London, 7 hours behind Tokyo.
Related clock anchors for Köln: Berlin (same time), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), Mumbai (+3.5h), São Paulo (−5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
germany
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
CEST
IANA Zone
Europe/Berlin
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
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Köln.
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City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Köln sits inside Germany — the Western Europe subregion, capital Berlin, languages German, currency EUR (€).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Köln: Corpus Christi, Assumption Day, World Children's Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Germany.
Germany’s calendar has obvious seasonal peaks like Oktoberfest and year-end holiday travel that help pages feel less generic.
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Köln, so this page falls back to timezone and regional planning context instead of showing a broken travel panel.
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 | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:01 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:01 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:01 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:01 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:01 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:01 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:01 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Köln is in the Europe/Berlin timezone (CEST), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Köln uses seasonal daylight saving rules in Europe/Berlin. 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 Köln is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Köln, 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 · 12:01 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Corpus Christi is the next upcoming holiday in Germany, on Thursday, June 4, 2026.
Köln uses euro (EUR, symbol €) as the local currency of Germany.
In Köln 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; Dubai 07:00-15:00; Mumbai 05:30-13:30. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.