Indexed entity
Jelgava is the jelgava-LV record in Latvia: country slug latvia, city slug jelgava, ISO LV, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Riga.
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Live local time
Jelgava, Latvia
01:43:54 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Europe/Riga
Quick answer
It is currently 01:43:54 PM (EEST, UTC+03:00) in Jelgava, Latvia — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
15°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
20°C
12°C
75% rain
Wed
14°C
9°C
71% rain
Thu
16°C
9°C
55% rain
In 21 days
Līgo diena (Līgo Day)
Tue, Jun 23, 2026
PublicIn 22 days
Jāņu diena (Jāņi Day)
Wed, Jun 24, 2026
PublicIn 169 days
Latvijas Republikas Proklamēšanas diena (Day of the Proclamation of the Republic of Latvia)
Wed, Nov 18, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Euro
1 USD = 0.8624 EUR
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
04:41 AM
Sunset
10:05 PM
Day length
17h 24m
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 Jelgava, 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
01:43:54 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
EEST
Europe/Riga · UTC+03:00
Next holiday
Līgo Day
Tuesday, June 23, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Jelgava right now
Nearest airport
RIX
Riga International Airport · 34 km
Indexed airports
1
Curated airport references available for Latvia
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Jelgava, Latvia.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 13:43 GMT+3
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Jelgava 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
Līgo Day on Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Travel cue
RIX Riga, 34 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 04:41 AM to 10:05 PM, with solar noon around 01:23 PM and total daylight of 17h 24m.
Mapped location
56.65°N, 23.71°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 Jelgava 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 Jelgava 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 Jelgava.
RIX · Riga International Airport
Riga
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Europe/Riga 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 Jelgava right now.
Check local interruptions
Līgo Day on Tuesday, June 23, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: RIX Riga, 34 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
Jelgava 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 Jelgava.
Canonical route
/time/latvia/jelgava/
Catalog identity
jelgava-LV · LV · Europe
Coordinate cell
56.65°N, 23.71°E · lat 56.650 · lon 23.713 · cell 5665:2371
Population record
54,834 residents · country rank 4
Zone snapshot
Europe/Riga · GMT+3 · UTC+03:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+03:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Riga, Latvia · 41 km
Nearest world hub
London · 1,647 km
Closest airport references
RIX Riga 34 km
Zone peer roster
Riga, Latvia · Daugavpils, Latvia · Liepāja, Latvia
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Jelgava: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Jelgava is the jelgava-LV record in Latvia: country slug latvia, city slug jelgava, ISO LV, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Riga.
56.65°N, 23.71°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 56 and longitude band 23; exact decimal pair 56.65000, 23.71278.
Latvia: official name Republic of Latvia; capital Riga; region Europe; subregion Northern Europe; country population 1,829,000; area 64,559 km²; languages Latvian; currencies EUR euro. This is the country layer behind the Jelgava clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Latvia: Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east and Belarus to the southeast and shares a maritime border with Sweden to the west. Latvia covers an area of 64,573 km2 (24,932 sq mi), with a population of 1.83 million. The country has a temperate seasonal climate. Its capital and largest city is Riga. Latvians, who are the titular nation and comprise 65.5% of the country's population, belong to the ethnolinguistic group of the Balts and speak Latvian. Russians are the most prominent minority in the country, at almost a quarter of the population; 37.7% of the population speak Russian as their native tongue. Source: Wikipedia.
Riga [riga-LV, LV, Europe/Riga, 41 km]; Šiauliai [siauliai-LT, LT, Europe/Vilnius, 83 km]; Liepāja [liepaja-LV, LV, Europe/Riga, 166 km]; Klaipėda [klaipeda-LT, LT, Europe/Vilnius, 191 km]; Daugavpils [daugavpils-LV, LV, Europe/Riga, 194 km]; Kaunas [kaunas-LT, LT, Europe/Vilnius, 195 km]; Vilnius [vilnius-LT, LT, Europe/Vilnius, 239 km]; Chernyakhovsk [chernyakhovsk-RU, RU, Europe/Kaliningrad, 254 km]
Jelgava is part of this indexed country cluster: Riga [riga-LV, Europe/Riga, pop 742,572]; Daugavpils [daugavpils-LV, Europe/Riga, pop 78,126]; Liepāja [liepaja-LV, Europe/Riga, pop 67,421]; Jelgava [jelgava-LV, Europe/Riga, pop 54,834].
London 1,647 km; Dubai 4,312 km; New York 6,753 km; Tokyo 8,121 km; Singapore 9,279 km; Los Angeles 9,312 km; São Paulo 11,059 km; Sydney 15,347 km
RIX Riga International Airport in Riga [LV, 34 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include RIX Riga International Airport in Riga [LV].
Jelgava renders Jun 2, 2026 · 13:43 GMT+3; GMT+3 at UTC+03:00; January UTC+02:00; July UTC+03:00; next holiday Līgo Day on 2026-06-23.
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 Jelgava.
Jelgava is a context-and-reference city; rank #4 of 4 retained Latvia city pages. The route is /time/latvia/jelgava/ and the city id is jelgava-LV.
Jelgava 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.
Jelgava is pinned at 56.65°N, 23.71°E; Riga (41 km); London (1,647 km).
Europe/Riga 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 Latvia.
RIX Riga International Airport (34 km) · Līgo Day (Tuesday, June 23, 2026) · 1 country airport reference · 16 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Jelgava 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.
Jelgava: Jelgava is a state city in central Latvia. It is located about 41 kilometres southwest of Riga. It is the largest town in the Semigallia region of Latvia. Jelgava was the capital of the united Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (1578–1795) and was the administrative center of the Courland Governorate (1795–1918).
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/Riga.
Jelgava 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 23.71°, Jelgava's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 25 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.
Jelgava sits at 56.65°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 17 hours 30 minutes on the June solstice and about 6 hours 30 minutes on the December solstice.
Jelgava sits at 56.65°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 17 hours 30 minutes on the June solstice and about 6 hours 30 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 18 (17h 47m)
Shortest day
Dec 18 (6h 48m)
Year-round average
12h 20m
Annual swing
10h 59m
See the full daylight curve for Jelgava at /sun/jelgava/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Jelgava local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Jelgava |
|---|---|---|
| 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
16
Reference fields include Jelgava's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 01:43:54 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Jelgava (UTC+03:00, EEST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
04:41 AM to 10:05 PM
Day length 17h 24m · Solar noon 01:23 PM
Next country holiday
Līgo Day
Tuesday, June 23, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Jelgava local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
keynoteSunday, December 6, 2026
187 days to go
Population
54.8K
Coordinates
56.65, 23.71
Timezone
Europe/Riga
Indexed airports
1
Capital
Riga
Languages
Latvian
Currency
EUR (€)
Country area
64,559 km²
Jelgava, Latvia (population rank #4 in this dataset). Time zone: Europe/Riga (EEST, UTC+03:00); population ~54.8K.
Coordinates: 56.65°N, 23.71°E. Northern Hemisphere high mid-latitudes, ~6288 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 04:41 AM and sets around 10:05 PM in Jelgava — about 17h 24m of daylight. Latvia observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
Riga (41 km from Jelgava) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Latvia.
Next national holiday: Līgo Day, 2026-06-23.
Jelgava is indexed as a Europe city in the LV country record, using Europe/Riga as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/latvia/jelgava/.
Location context: 56.65°N, 23.71°E; population 54,834; nearest indexed city Riga is about 41 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 1,647 km away.
Country planning context: capital Riga; subregion Northern Europe; languages Latvian; currency EUR (€); area 64,559 km²; 1 curated airport references; next holiday Līgo Day on 2026-06-23.
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/Riga.
Jelgava 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 23.71°, Jelgava's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 25 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.
Jelgava sits at 56.65°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 17 hours 30 minutes on the June solstice and about 6 hours 30 minutes on the December solstice.
Related clock anchors for Jelgava: Riga (same time), San Francisco (−10h), Los Angeles (−10h), Moscow (same time), Berlin (−1h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
latvia
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
EEST
IANA Zone
Europe/Riga
UTC Offset
UTC+03:00
DST Status
Observing DST
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+03:00
Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan, Syria
Other cities in this timezone
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 Jelgava.
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City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Jelgava: closest hubs London (~1,647 km), Dubai (~4,312 km), New York (~6,753 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~15,347 km).
Jelgava sits inside Latvia — the Northern Europe subregion, capital Riga, languages Latvian, currency EUR (€).
Closest indexed cities to Jelgava: Riga (41 km), Šiauliai (83 km), Liepāja (166 km), Klaipėda (191 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Jelgava: Līgo Day, Jāņi Day, Day of the Proclamation of the Republic of Latvia. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Latvia.
Closest curated airport references from Jelgava: RIX Riga (34 km).
Riga International AirportRIX
Riga · 34 km from Jelgava
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 48m
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 |
Jelgava is in the Europe/Riga timezone (EEST), with a UTC offset of +03:00.
Jelgava uses seasonal daylight saving rules in Europe/Riga. 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 Jelgava is UTC+03:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Jelgava, 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.
Jelgava sits at 56.65°N, 23.71°E in Latvia, with about 54.8K residents (rank #4 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Jelgava is London, about 1,647 km away as the crow flies.
Riga is the closest indexed city, roughly 41 km from Jelgava.
Riga International Airport (RIX) is the closest curated airport reference, about 34 km from Jelgava.
Līgo Day is the next upcoming holiday in Latvia, on Tuesday, June 23, 2026.
Jelgava uses euro (EUR, symbol €) as the local currency of Latvia.
The longest day of 2026 in Jelgava falls on Jun 18 with about 17h 47m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 18 with 6h 48m; the year-round average is 12h 20m.
In Jelgava 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.