Current Time in Bitola, North Macedonia — CEST.

Indexed entity

Bitola is the bitola-MK record in North Macedonia: country slug north-macedonia, city slug bitola, ISO MK, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Skopje.

Coordinate fingerprint

41.03°N, 21.34°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 41 and longitude band 21; exact decimal pair 41.03226, 21.33553.

Country dossier

North Macedonia: official name Republic of North Macedonia; capital Skopje; region Europe; subregion Southeast Europe; country population 1,822,612; area 25,713 km²; languages Macedonian; currencies MKD denar. This is the country layer behind the Bitola clock, not a generic timezone-only record.

North Macedonia reference backdrop

North Macedonia: North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the north. It constitutes approximately the northern third of the larger geographical region of Macedonia. Skopje, the capital and largest city, is home to a quarter of the country's population of over 1.83 million. The majority of the residents are ethnic Macedonians, a South Slavic people. Albanians form a significant minority at around 25%, followed by Turks, Roma, Serbs, Bosniaks, Aromanians and a few other minorities. Source: Wikipedia.

Nearest mapped city vector

Prilep [prilep-MK, MK, Europe/Skopje, 39 km]; Elbasan [elbasan-AL, AL, Europe/Tirane, 105 km]; Skopje [skopje-MK, MK, Europe/Skopje, 108 km]; Kumanovo [kumanovo-MK, MK, Europe/Skopje, 126 km]; Tirana [tirana-AL, AL, Europe/Tirane, 131 km]; Thessaloníki [thessaloniki-GR, GR, Europe/Athens, 141 km]; Durrës [durres-AL, AL, Europe/Tirane, 161 km]; Vlorë [vlore-AL, AL, Europe/Tirane, 168 km]

North Macedonia city roster

Bitola is part of this indexed country cluster: Skopje [skopje-MK, Europe/Skopje, pop 474,889]; Kumanovo [kumanovo-MK, Europe/Skopje, pop 75,051]; Prilep [prilep-MK, Europe/Skopje, pop 73,814]; Bitola [bitola-MK, Europe/Skopje, pop 69,287].

World hub distance vector

London 2,007 km; Dubai 3,585 km; New York 7,559 km; Singapore 9,279 km; Tokyo 9,419 km; São Paulo 10,026 km; Los Angeles 10,698 km; Sydney 15,581 km

Airport references near this city

SKP Skopje International Airport in Ilinden [MK, 106 km]

North Macedonia airport roster

Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include SKP Skopje International Airport in Ilinden [MK].

Calendar and offset context

Bitola renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:45 GMT+2; GMT+2 at UTC+02:00; January UTC+01:00; July UTC+02:00; next holiday Day of the Republic on 2026-08-02.

Bitola is a context-and-reference city; rank #4 of 4 retained North Macedonia city pages. The route is /time/north-macedonia/bitola/ and the city id is bitola-MK.

Bitola 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.

Bitola is pinned at 41.03°N, 21.34°E; Prilep (39 km); London (2,007 km).

Europe/Skopje 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 North Macedonia.

SKP Skopje International Airport (106 km) · Day of the Republic (Sunday, August 2, 2026) · 1 country airport reference · 12 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.

Bitola 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.

Bitola

Bitola: Bitola is a city in the southwestern part of North Macedonia. It is located in the southern part of the Pelagonia valley, surrounded by the Baba, Nidže, and Kajmakčalan mountain ranges, 14 kilometres north of the Medžitlija-Níki border crossing with Greece. The city stands at an important junction connecting the south of the Adriatic Sea region with the Aegean Sea and Central Europe, and it is an administrative, cultural, industrial, commercial, and educational centre. It has been known since the Ottoman period as the "City of Consuls", since many European countries had consulates in Bitola.

Local clock note

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/Skopje.

Local clock note

Bitola is listed in the dataset snapshot as 2 hours ahead of UTC (offset +02:00). 1 hour ahead of London, 7 hours behind Tokyo.

Local clock note

Geographically at longitude 21.34°, Bitola's mean solar noon falls about 35 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.

Local clock note

Bitola sits at 41.03°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 14 hours 57 minutes on the June solstice and about 9 hours 3 minutes on the December solstice.

Local clock note

Bitola sits at 41.03°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 14 hours 57 minutes on the June solstice and about 9 hours 3 minutes on the December solstice.