Indexed entity
Bucharest is the bucharest-RO record in Romania: country slug romania, city slug bucharest, ISO RO, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Bucharest.
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Live local time
Bucharest, Romania
01:01:17 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Europe/Bucharest
Quick answer
It is currently 01:01:17 PM (EEST, UTC+03:00) in Bucharest, Romania — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
19°C
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3-day forecast
Tue
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Wed
30°C
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Thu
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In 74 days
Adormirea Maicii Domnului/Sfânta Maria Mare (Dormition of the Theotokos)
Sat, Aug 15, 2026
PublicIn 181 days
Sfântul Andrei (St. Andrew's Day)
Mon, Nov 30, 2026
PublicIn 182 days
Ziua Națională/Marea Unire (National Day/Great Union)
Tue, Dec 1, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Romanian Leu
1 USD = 4.527 RON
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
05:33 AM
Sunset
08:53 PM
Day length
15h 20m
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 Bucharest, 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
01:01:17 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
EEST
Europe/Bucharest · UTC+03:00
Next holiday
Dormition of the Theotokos
Saturday, August 15, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Bucharest right now
Nearest airport
BBU
Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport · 8 km
Indexed airports
2
Curated airport references available for Romania
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Bucharest, Romania.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 13:01 GMT+3
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Bucharest 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
11:01 AM / -2h
Dubai
02:01 PM / +1h
Schedule risk
Dormition of the Theotokos on Saturday, August 15, 2026
Travel cue
BBU Bucharest, 8 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:33 AM to 08:53 PM, with solar noon around 01:13 PM and total daylight of 15h 20m.
Mapped location
44.43°N, 26.11°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:01 AM / -2h
Good live-call window with Bucharest right now.
New York
06:01 AM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:01 AM / -10h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:01 PM / +1h
Good live-call window with Bucharest right now.
Singapore
06:01 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 Bucharest.
BBU · Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport
Bucharest
OTP · Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport
Otopeni
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Europe/Bucharest 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 Bucharest right now.
Check local interruptions
Dormition of the Theotokos on Saturday, August 15, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: BBU Bucharest, 8 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
Bucharest 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 Bucharest.
Canonical route
/time/romania/bucharest/
Catalog identity
bucharest-RO · RO · Europe
Coordinate cell
44.43°N, 26.11°E · lat 44.432 · lon 26.106 · cell 4443:2611
Population record
1,877,155 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Europe/Bucharest · GMT+3 · UTC+03:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+03:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Sector 3, Romania · 5 km
Nearest world hub
London · 2,091 km
Closest airport references
BBU Bucharest 8 km · OTP Otopeni 16 km
Zone peer roster
Sector 3, Romania · Iaşi, Romania · Sector 6, Romania
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Bucharest: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Bucharest is the bucharest-RO record in Romania: country slug romania, city slug bucharest, ISO RO, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Bucharest.
44.43°N, 26.11°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 44 and longitude band 26; exact decimal pair 44.43225, 26.10626.
Romania: official name Romania; capital Bucharest; region Europe; subregion Southeast Europe; country population 19,036,031; area 238,391 km²; languages Romanian; currencies RON Romanian leu. This is the country layer behind the Bucharest clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Romania: Romania is a country in Southeast and Central Europe. It lies on the lower course of the Danube, north of the Balkan Peninsula, and on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to the east, and the Black Sea to the southeast. It is the twelfth-largest country in Europe by area, covering 238,397 km2 (92,046 mi2), and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union, with 19 million inhabitants. The capital, largest city and economic centre is Bucharest. Other major cities include Cluj-Napoca, Iași, Constanța, Timișoara and Brașov. Source: Wikipedia.
Sector 3 [sector-3-RO, RO, Europe/Bucharest, 5 km]; Sector 6 [sector-6-RO, RO, Europe/Bucharest, 7 km]; Varna [varna-BG, BG, Europe/Sofia, 198 km]; Burgas [burgas-BG, BG, Europe/Sofia, 241 km]; Plovdiv [plovdiv-BG, BG, Europe/Sofia, 276 km]; Sofia [sofia-BG, BG, Europe/Sofia, 296 km]; Iaşi [iasi-RO, RO, Europe/Bucharest, 325 km]; Chisinau [chisinau-MD, MD, Europe/Chisinau, 357 km]
Bucharest is part of this indexed country cluster: Bucharest [bucharest-RO, Europe/Bucharest, pop 1,877,155]; Sector 3 [sector-3-RO, Europe/Bucharest, pop 385,439]; Iaşi [iasi-RO, Europe/Bucharest, pop 378,954]; Sector 6 [sector-6-RO, Europe/Bucharest, pop 367,760].
London 2,091 km; Dubai 3,383 km; New York 7,650 km; Tokyo 8,877 km; Singapore 8,929 km; São Paulo 10,553 km; Los Angeles 10,574 km; Sydney 15,231 km
BBU Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport in Bucharest [RO, 8 km]; OTP Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport in Otopeni [RO, 16 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include BBU Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport in Bucharest [RO]; OTP Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport in Otopeni [RO].
Bucharest renders Jun 2, 2026 · 13:01 GMT+3; GMT+3 at UTC+03:00; January UTC+02:00; July UTC+03:00; next holiday Dormition of the Theotokos on 2026-08-15.
This evidence pack keeps the manual city dossier tied to the concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Bucharest.
Bucharest is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 4 retained Romania city pages. The route is /time/romania/bucharest/ and the city id is bucharest-RO.
Bucharest has 16 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.
Bucharest is pinned at 44.43°N, 26.11°E; Sector 3 (5 km); London (2,091 km).
Europe/Bucharest 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 Romania.
BBU Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport (8 km) · Dormition of the Theotokos (Saturday, August 15, 2026) · 2 country airport references · 17 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Bucharest 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.
Bucharest: Bucharest is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.71 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 2.31 million residents, which makes Bucharest the 9th most-populous city by population within city limits in the European Union. The city has an area of 240 km2 (93 sq mi), while the metropolitan area covers 1,811 km2 (699 sq mi). The city proper is administratively known as the "Municipality of Bucharest", and has the same administrative level as that of a national county, being further subdivided into six sectors, each governed by a local mayor. Bucharest is a major cultural, political and economic hub, the country's seat of government, and the capital of the Muntenia region. It is an enclave completely surrounded by Ilfov County.
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/Bucharest.
Bucharest 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 26.11°, Bucharest's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 16 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.
Bucharest sits at 44.43°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 21 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 39 minutes on the December solstice.
Bucharest sits at 44.43°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 21 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 39 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 21 (15h 33m)
Shortest day
Dec 18 (8h 50m)
Year-round average
12h 13m
Annual swing
6h 43m
See the full daylight curve for Bucharest at /sun/bucharest/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Bucharest local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Bucharest |
|---|---|---|
| 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
17
Capital status
National capital of Romania
Bucharest is the capital and largest city of Romania, with a population of around 1.8 million in the city and over 2 million in its metropolitan area, making it one of the largest cities in Southeastern Europe. It observes Eastern European Time (EET, UTC+2) and shifts to Eastern European Summer Time (EEST, UTC+3) during daylight saving, which in the European Union runs from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October. Bucharest is Romania's political, financial, and cultural centre and the seat of national government. The city is known for the immense Palace of the Parliament, one of the largest and heaviest administrative buildings in the world, built under the Communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu. Its early-20th-century architecture once earned it the nickname 'Little Paris of the East.'
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Bucharest's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 01:01:17 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Bucharest (UTC+03:00, EEST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:33 AM to 08:53 PM
Day length 15h 20m · Solar noon 01:13 PM
Next country holiday
Dormition of the Theotokos
Saturday, August 15, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Bucharest local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
1.9M
Coordinates
44.43, 26.11
Timezone
Europe/Bucharest
Indexed airports
2
Capital
Bucharest
Languages
Romanian
Currency
RON (lei)
Country area
238,391 km²
Bucharest, Romania (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Europe/Bucharest (EEST, UTC+03:00); population ~1.9M.
Coordinates: 44.43°N, 26.11°E. Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, ~4932 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:33 AM and sets around 08:53 PM in Bucharest — about 15h 20m of daylight. Romania observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
Sector 3 (5 km from Bucharest) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 2 curated airport pages indexed for Romania.
Next national holiday: Dormition of the Theotokos, 2026-08-15.
Bucharest is indexed as a Europe city in the RO country record, using Europe/Bucharest as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/romania/bucharest/.
Location context: 44.43°N, 26.11°E; population 1,877,155; nearest indexed city Sector 3 is about 5 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 2,091 km away.
Country planning context: capital Bucharest; subregion Southeast Europe; languages Romanian; currency RON (lei); area 238,391 km²; 2 curated airport references; next holiday Dormition of the Theotokos on 2026-08-15.
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/Bucharest.
Bucharest 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 26.11°, Bucharest's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 16 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.
Bucharest sits at 44.43°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 21 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 39 minutes on the December solstice.
Major metropolitan area with around 1.9 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Bucharest: Sector 3 (same time), San Francisco (−10h), Los Angeles (−10h), New York City (−7h), Paris (−1h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
romania
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
EEST
IANA Zone
Europe/Bucharest
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 Bucharest.
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City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Bucharest: closest hubs London (~2,091 km), Dubai (~3,383 km), New York (~7,650 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~15,231 km).
Bucharest sits inside Romania — the Southeast Europe subregion, capital Bucharest, languages Romanian, currency RON (lei).
Closest indexed cities to Bucharest: Sector 3 (5 km), Sector 6 (7 km), Varna (198 km), Burgas (241 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Bucharest: Dormition of the Theotokos, St. Andrew's Day, National Day/Great Union. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Romania.
Closest curated airport references from Bucharest: BBU Bucharest (8 km), OTP Otopeni (16 km).
Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International AirportBBU
Bucharest · 8 km from Bucharest
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Bucharest Henri Coandă International AirportOTP
Otopeni · 16 km from Bucharest
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 | 11:01 AM | -2h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:01 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:01 AM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:01 PM | +1h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:01 PM | +5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:01 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:01 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:01 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
Bucharest is in the Europe/Bucharest timezone (EEST), with a UTC offset of +03:00.
Bucharest uses seasonal daylight saving rules in Europe/Bucharest. 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 Bucharest is UTC+03:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Bucharest, 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 · 13:01 GMT+3. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Bucharest sits at 44.43°N, 26.11°E in Romania, with about 1.9M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Bucharest is London, about 2,091 km away as the crow flies.
Sector 3 is the closest indexed city, roughly 5 km from Bucharest.
Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport (BBU) is the closest curated airport reference, about 8 km from Bucharest.
Dormition of the Theotokos is the next upcoming holiday in Romania, on Saturday, August 15, 2026.
Bucharest uses Romanian leu (RON, symbol lei) as the local currency of Romania.
The longest day of 2026 in Bucharest falls on Jun 21 with about 15h 33m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 18 with 8h 50m; the year-round average is 12h 13m.
In Bucharest 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.