Indexed entity
Chisinau is the chisinau-MD record in Moldova: country slug moldova, city slug chisinau, ISO MD, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Chisinau.
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Live local time
Chisinau, Moldova
01:43:28 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Europe/Chisinau
Quick answer
It is currently 01:43:28 PM (EEST, UTC+03:00) in Chisinau, Moldova — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
19°C
Partly cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
27°C
16°C
Wed
29°C
17°C
45% rain
Thu
21°C
14°C
36% rain
In 86 days
Independence Day (Independence Day (Moldova))
Thu, Aug 27, 2026
PublicIn 90 days
Memorial Day
Mon, Aug 31, 2026
PublicIn 90 days
Limba Noastra (Limba Noastra (National Language Day))
Mon, Aug 31, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
MDL
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
05:12 AM
Sunset
08:52 PM
Day length
15h 40m
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 Chisinau, 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
01:43:28 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
EEST
Europe/Chisinau · UTC+03:00
Next holiday
Independence Day (Moldova)
Thursday, August 27, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Chisinau right now
Nearest airport
RMO
Chişinău International Airport · 11 km
Indexed airports
1
Curated airport references available for Moldova
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Chisinau, Moldova.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 13:43 GMT+3
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Chisinau 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
Independence Day (Moldova) on Thursday, August 27, 2026
Travel cue
RMO Chişinău, 11 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:12 AM to 08:52 PM, with solar noon around 01:02 PM and total daylight of 15h 40m.
Mapped location
47.01°N, 28.86°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 Chisinau 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 Chisinau 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 Chisinau.
RMO · Chişinău International Airport
Chişinău
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Europe/Chisinau 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 Chisinau right now.
Check local interruptions
Independence Day (Moldova) on Thursday, August 27, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: RMO Chişinău, 11 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
Chisinau 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 Chisinau.
Canonical route
/time/moldova/chisinau/
Catalog identity
chisinau-MD · MD · Europe
Coordinate cell
47.01°N, 28.86°E · lat 47.009 · lon 28.859 · cell 4701:2886
Population record
635,994 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Europe/Chisinau · GMT+3 · UTC+03:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+03:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Bender, Moldova · 51 km
Nearest world hub
London · 2,147 km
Closest airport references
RMO Chişinău 11 km
Zone peer roster
Tiraspol, Moldova · Bălţi, Moldova · Bender, Moldova
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Chisinau: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Chisinau is the chisinau-MD record in Moldova: country slug moldova, city slug chisinau, ISO MD, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Chisinau.
47.01°N, 28.86°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 47 and longitude band 28; exact decimal pair 47.00902, 28.85938.
Moldova: official name Republic of Moldova; capital Chișinău; region Europe; subregion Eastern Europe; country population 2,749,076; area 33,847 km²; languages Romanian; currencies MDL Moldovan leu. This is the country layer behind the Chisinau clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Moldova: Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of 33,843 km2 (13,067 sq mi) and a population of 2.38 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised breakaway state of Transnistria lies across the Dniester river on the country's eastern border with Ukraine. Moldova is a unitary parliamentary representative democratic republic with its capital in Chișinău, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. Source: Wikipedia.
Bender [bender-MD, MD, Europe/Chisinau, 51 km]; Tiraspol [tiraspol-MD, MD, Europe/Chisinau, 61 km]; Iaşi [iasi-RO, RO, Europe/Bucharest, 97 km]; Bălţi [balti-MD, MD, Europe/Chisinau, 109 km]; Odesa [odesa-UA, UA, Europe/Kyiv, 155 km]; Sector 3 [sector-3-RO, RO, Europe/Bucharest, 355 km]; Bucharest [bucharest-RO, RO, Europe/Bucharest, 357 km]; Sector 6 [sector-6-RO, RO, Europe/Bucharest, 361 km]
Chisinau is part of this indexed country cluster: Chisinau [chisinau-MD, Europe/Chisinau, pop 635,994]; Tiraspol [tiraspol-MD, Europe/Chisinau, pop 157,000]; Bălţi [balti-MD, Europe/Chisinau, pop 125,000]; Bender [bender-MD, Europe/Chisinau, pop 110,175].
London 2,147 km; Dubai 3,361 km; New York 7,647 km; Tokyo 8,529 km; Singapore 8,763 km; Los Angeles 10,421 km; São Paulo 10,875 km; Sydney 15,043 km
RMO Chişinău International Airport in Chişinău [MD, 11 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include RMO Chişinău International Airport in Chişinău [MD].
Chisinau renders Jun 2, 2026 · 13:43 GMT+3; GMT+3 at UTC+03:00; January UTC+02:00; July UTC+03:00; next holiday Independence Day (Moldova) on 2026-08-27.
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 Chisinau.
Chisinau is a context-and-reference city; rank #1 of 4 retained Moldova city pages. The route is /time/moldova/chisinau/ and the city id is chisinau-MD.
Chisinau 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.
Chisinau is pinned at 47.01°N, 28.86°E; Bender (51 km); London (2,147 km).
Europe/Chisinau 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 Moldova.
RMO Chişinău International Airport (11 km) · Independence Day (Moldova) (Thursday, August 27, 2026) · 1 country airport reference · 16 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Chisinau 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.
Chișinău: Chișinău is the capital and largest city of Moldova. The city is Moldova's main industrial and commercial centre. It is situated in the middle of the country, on the river Bîc, a tributary of the Dniester. According to the results of the 2024 Moldovan census, the population of the city proper stood at over 567,000 inhabitants, while the population of the Municipality of Chișinău numbered over 720,000 people. Chișinău is the most economically prosperous locality in Moldova and the country's largest transport hub. Nearly a third of Moldova's population resides in the metropolitan area.
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/Chisinau.
Chisinau 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 28.86°, Chisinau's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 5 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.
Chisinau sits at 47.01°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 42 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 18 minutes on the December solstice.
Chisinau sits at 47.01°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 42 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 18 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 19 (15h 54m)
Shortest day
Dec 19 (8h 30m)
Year-round average
12h 14m
Annual swing
7h 24m
See the full daylight curve for Chisinau at /sun/chisinau/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Chisinau local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Chisinau |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Chisinau's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 01:43:28 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Chisinau (UTC+03:00, EEST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:12 AM to 08:52 PM
Day length 15h 40m · Solar noon 01:02 PM
Next country holiday
Independence Day (Moldova)
Thursday, August 27, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Chisinau 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
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
keynoteSunday, December 6, 2026
187 days to go
Xbox Games Showcase 2026
keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
Population
636K
Coordinates
47.01, 28.86
Timezone
Europe/Chisinau
Indexed airports
1
Capital
Chișinău
Languages
Romanian
Currency
MDL (L)
Country area
33,847 km²
Chisinau, Moldova (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Europe/Chisinau (EEST, UTC+03:00); population ~636K.
Coordinates: 47.01°N, 28.86°E. Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, ~5218 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:12 AM and sets around 08:52 PM in Chisinau — about 15h 40m of daylight. Moldova observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
Bender (51 km from Chisinau) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Moldova.
Next national holiday: Independence Day (Moldova), 2026-08-27.
Chisinau is indexed as a Europe city in the MD country record, using Europe/Chisinau as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/moldova/chisinau/.
Location context: 47.01°N, 28.86°E; population 635,994; nearest indexed city Bender is about 51 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 2,147 km away.
Country planning context: capital Chișinău; subregion Eastern Europe; languages Romanian; currency MDL (L); area 33,847 km²; 1 curated airport references; next holiday Independence Day (Moldova) on 2026-08-27.
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/Chisinau.
Chisinau 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 28.86°, Chisinau's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 5 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.
Chisinau sits at 47.01°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 42 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 18 minutes on the December solstice.
Sizeable city with about 636 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Chisinau: Tiraspol (same time), San Francisco (−10h), Los Angeles (−10h), Paris (−1h), London (−2h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
moldova
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
EEST
IANA Zone
Europe/Chisinau
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 Chisinau.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Chisinau: closest hubs London (~2,147 km), Dubai (~3,361 km), New York (~7,647 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~15,043 km).
Chisinau sits inside Moldova — the Eastern Europe subregion, capital Chișinău, languages Romanian, currency MDL (L).
Closest indexed cities to Chisinau: Bender (51 km), Tiraspol (61 km), Iaşi (97 km), Bălţi (109 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Chisinau: Independence Day (Moldova), Memorial Day, Limba Noastra (National Language Day). Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Moldova.
Closest curated airport references from Chisinau: RMO Chişinău (11 km).
Chişinău International AirportRMO
Chişinău · 11 km from Chisinau
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 | 11:43 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 |
Chisinau is in the Europe/Chisinau timezone (EEST), with a UTC offset of +03:00.
Chisinau uses seasonal daylight saving rules in Europe/Chisinau. 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 Chisinau is UTC+03:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Chisinau, 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.
Chisinau sits at 47.01°N, 28.86°E in Moldova, with about 636K residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Chisinau is London, about 2,147 km away as the crow flies.
Bender is the closest indexed city, roughly 51 km from Chisinau.
Chişinău International Airport (RMO) is the closest curated airport reference, about 11 km from Chisinau.
Independence Day (Moldova) is the next upcoming holiday in Moldova, on Thursday, August 27, 2026.
Chisinau uses Moldovan leu (MDL, symbol L) as the local currency of Moldova.
The longest day of 2026 in Chisinau falls on Jun 19 with about 15h 54m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 19 with 8h 30m; the year-round average is 12h 14m.
In Chisinau 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.