Indexed entity
Longyearbyen is the longyearbyen-SJ record in Svalbard & Jan Mayen: country slug svalbard-and-jan-mayen, city slug longyearbyen, ISO SJ, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Arctic/Longyearbyen.
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Live local time
Longyearbyen, Svalbard & Jan Mayen
12:48:59 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Arctic/Longyearbyen
Quick answer
It is currently 12:48:59 PM (CEST, UTC+02:00) in Longyearbyen, Svalbard & Jan Mayen — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
1°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
2°C
1°C
55% rain
Wed
2°C
1°C
53% rain
Thu
2°C
0°C
35% rain
In 206 days
Første juledag (Christmas Day)
Fri, Dec 25, 2026
PublicIn 207 days
Andre juledag (Second day of Christmas)
Sat, Dec 26, 2026
PublicIn 213 days
Første nyttårsdag (New Year's Day)
Fri, Jan 1, 2027
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Norwegian Krone
1 USD = 9.254 NOK
Quick conversions
Today
Polar day — the sun does not set today.
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 Longyearbyen, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:48 AM UTC.
Current local time
12:48:59 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CEST
Arctic/Longyearbyen · UTC+02:00
Next holiday
Christmas Day
Friday, December 25, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Longyearbyen right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Longyearbyen
Indexed airports
0
Curated airport references available for Svalbard & Jan Mayen
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Longyearbyen, Svalbard & Jan Mayen.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:48 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Longyearbyen 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
11:48 AM / -1h
Dubai
02:48 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
Christmas Day on Friday, December 25, 2026
Travel cue
Trondheim, 1654 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is — to —, with solar noon around — and total daylight of 24h 0m.
Mapped location
78.22°N, 15.65°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:48 AM / -1h
Good live-call window with Longyearbyen right now.
New York
06:48 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:48 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:48 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Longyearbyen right now.
Singapore
06:48 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 Longyearbyen.
No curated airport is currently mapped close enough to show as a planning cue.
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Arctic/Longyearbyen 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 Longyearbyen right now.
Check local interruptions
Christmas Day on Friday, December 25, 2026. Nearest mapped context: Trondheim, 1654 km.
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
Longyearbyen 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 Longyearbyen.
Canonical route
/time/svalbard-and-jan-mayen/longyearbyen/
Catalog identity
longyearbyen-SJ · SJ · Europe
Coordinate cell
78.22°N, 15.65°E · lat 78.223 · lon 15.647 · cell 7822:1565
Population record
2,368 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Arctic/Longyearbyen · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+01:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Trondheim, Norway · 1654 km
Nearest world hub
London · 3,038 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Longyearbyen
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Longyearbyen: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Longyearbyen is the longyearbyen-SJ record in Svalbard & Jan Mayen: country slug svalbard-and-jan-mayen, city slug longyearbyen, ISO SJ, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Arctic/Longyearbyen.
78.22°N, 15.65°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 78 and longitude band 15; exact decimal pair 78.22334, 15.64689.
Svalbard & Jan Mayen: official name Svalbard og Jan Mayen; capital Longyearbyen; region Europe; subregion Northern Europe; country population 2,530; area 61,399 km²; languages Norwegian; currencies NOK krone. This is the country layer behind the Longyearbyen clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Svalbard and Jan Mayen: Svalbard and Jan Mayen is a statistical designation defined by ISO 3166-1 for a collective grouping of two remote jurisdictions of Norway: Svalbard and Jan Mayen. While the two are combined for the purposes of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) category, they are not administratively related. This has further resulted in the country code top-level domain .sj being issued for Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and ISO 3166-2:SJ. The United Nations Statistics Division also uses this code, but has named it the Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands. Source: Wikipedia.
Trondheim [trondheim-NO, NO, Europe/Oslo, 1654 km]; Tampere [tampere-FI, FI, Europe/Helsinki, 1881 km]; Tórshavn [torshavn-FO, FO, Atlantic/Faroe, 1961 km]; Reykjavík [reykjavik-IS, IS, Atlantic/Reykjavik, 1993 km]; Kópavogur [kopavogur-IS, IS, Atlantic/Reykjavik, 1995 km]; Bergen [bergen-NO, NO, Europe/Oslo, 2016 km]; Mariehamn [mariehamn-AX, AX, Europe/Mariehamn, 2021 km]; Vantaa [vantaa-FI, FI, Europe/Helsinki, 2022 km]
Longyearbyen is part of this indexed country cluster: Longyearbyen [longyearbyen-SJ, Arctic/Longyearbyen, pop 2,368].
London 3,038 km; New York 5,587 km; Dubai 6,227 km; Tokyo 6,831 km; Los Angeles 7,169 km; Singapore 9,819 km; São Paulo 11,976 km; Sydney 14,656 km
Longyearbyen has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Svalbard & Jan Mayen.
Longyearbyen renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:48 GMT+2; GMT+2 at UTC+02:00; January UTC+01:00; July UTC+02:00; next holiday Christmas Day on 2026-12-25.
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 Longyearbyen.
Longyearbyen is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 1 retained Svalbard & Jan Mayen city page. The route is /time/svalbard-and-jan-mayen/longyearbyen/ and the city id is longyearbyen-SJ.
Longyearbyen has 13 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.
Longyearbyen is pinned at 78.22°N, 15.65°E; Trondheim (1654 km); London (3,038 km).
Arctic/Longyearbyen resolves to seasonal offset split: UTC+01:00 in January and UTC+02:00 in July. 0 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Svalbard & Jan Mayen.
Longyearbyen has no direct nearby-airport handoff · Christmas Day (Friday, December 25, 2026) · 0 country airport references · 12 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Longyearbyen 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.
Svalbard and Jan Mayen: Svalbard and Jan Mayen is a statistical designation defined by ISO 3166-1 for a collective grouping of two remote jurisdictions of Norway: Svalbard and Jan Mayen. While the two are combined for the purposes of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) category, they are not administratively related. This has further resulted in the country code top-level domain .sj being issued for Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and ISO 3166-2:SJ. The United Nations Statistics Division also uses this code, but has named it the Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands.
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 Arctic/Longyearbyen.
Longyearbyen is listed in the dataset snapshot as 2 hours ahead of UTC (offset +02:00). 1 hour ahead of London, 7 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 15.65°, Longyearbyen's mean solar noon falls about 57 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.
Longyearbyen sits at 78.22°N, inside the Arctic Circle, with extended polar day around the June solstice and polar night around the December solstice.
Longyearbyen sits at 78.22°N, inside the Arctic Circle, with extended polar day around the June solstice and polar night around 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
Apr 19 (24h 0m)
Shortest day
Jan 1 (0h 0m)
Year-round average
12h 32m
Annual swing
24h 0m
Polar-day days
128
Polar-night days
111
See the full daylight curve for Longyearbyen at /sun/longyearbyen/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Longyearbyen local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Longyearbyen |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 15:00 - 23:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| 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
12
Capital status
National capital of Svalbard & Jan Mayen
Longyearbyen is the largest settlement and administrative centre of Svalbard, located at about 78°N and far north of the Arctic Circle. It experiences polar night and midnight sun, making daylight context as important as the civil clock itself. Svalbard follows Norway's Central European Time / Central European Summer Time schedule despite its high-Arctic geography. The settlement supports research, mining legacy infrastructure, tourism, and the University Centre in Svalbard.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-11 (manual).
Reference fields include Longyearbyen's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:48:59 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Longyearbyen (UTC+02:00, CEST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
— to —
Day length 24h 0m · Solar noon —
Next country holiday
Christmas Day
Friday, December 25, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Longyearbyen local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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
Code with Claude Tokyo 2026
keynoteWednesday, June 10, 2026
8 days to go
ICML 2026
keynoteMonday, July 6, 2026
34 days to go
Population
2.4K
Coordinates
78.22, 15.65
Timezone
Arctic/Longyearbyen
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Longyearbyen
Languages
Norwegian
Currency
NOK (kr)
Country area
61,399 km²
Longyearbyen, Svalbard & Jan Mayen (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Arctic/Longyearbyen (CEST, UTC+02:00); population ~2.4K.
Coordinates: 78.22°N, 15.65°E. Northern Hemisphere high latitudes, ~8683 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around — and sets around — in Longyearbyen — about 24h 0m of daylight. Svalbard & Jan Mayen observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
Trondheim (1654 km from Longyearbyen) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Svalbard & Jan Mayen.
Next national holiday: Christmas Day, 2026-12-25.
Longyearbyen is indexed as a Europe city in the SJ country record, using Arctic/Longyearbyen as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/svalbard-and-jan-mayen/longyearbyen/.
Location context: 78.22°N, 15.65°E; population 2,368; nearest indexed city Trondheim is about 1654 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 3,038 km away.
Country planning context: capital Longyearbyen; subregion Northern Europe; languages Norwegian; currency NOK (kr); area 61,399 km²; 0 curated airport references; next holiday Christmas Day on 2026-12-25.
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 Arctic/Longyearbyen.
Longyearbyen is listed in the dataset snapshot as 2 hours ahead of UTC (offset +02:00). 1 hour ahead of London, 7 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 15.65°, Longyearbyen's mean solar noon falls about 57 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.
Longyearbyen sits at 78.22°N, inside the Arctic Circle, with extended polar day around the June solstice and polar night around the December solstice.
Related clock anchors for Longyearbyen: San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), Mumbai (+3.5h), São Paulo (−5h), Moscow (+1h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
svalbard-and-jan-mayen
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
CEST
IANA Zone
Arctic/Longyearbyen
UTC Offset
UTC+02:00
DST Status
Observing DST
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+02:00
Burundi, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Sudan, Sudan, Rwanda, Malawi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
London
-1h
New York
-6h
Los Angeles
-9h
Dubai
+2h
Singapore
+6h
Tokyo
+7h
Sydney
+8h
São Paulo
-5h
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 Longyearbyen.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Longyearbyen: closest hubs London (~3,038 km), New York (~5,587 km), Dubai (~6,227 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~14,656 km).
Longyearbyen sits inside Svalbard & Jan Mayen — the Northern Europe subregion, capital Longyearbyen, languages Norwegian, currency NOK (kr).
Closest indexed cities to Longyearbyen: Trondheim (1654 km), Tampere (1881 km), Tórshavn (1961 km), Reykjavík (1993 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Longyearbyen: Christmas Day, Second day of Christmas, New Year's Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Svalbard & Jan Mayen.
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Longyearbyen, 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 | 11:48 AM | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:48 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:48 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:48 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:48 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:48 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:48 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:48 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Longyearbyen is in the Arctic/Longyearbyen timezone (CEST), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Longyearbyen uses seasonal daylight saving rules in Arctic/Longyearbyen. 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 Longyearbyen is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Longyearbyen, 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 · 12:48 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Longyearbyen sits at 78.22°N, 15.65°E in Svalbard & Jan Mayen, with about 2.4K residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Longyearbyen is London, about 3,038 km away as the crow flies.
Trondheim is the closest indexed city, roughly 1654 km from Longyearbyen.
Christmas Day is the next upcoming holiday in Svalbard & Jan Mayen, on Friday, December 25, 2026.
Longyearbyen uses krone (NOK, symbol kr) as the local currency of Svalbard & Jan Mayen.
The longest day of 2026 in Longyearbyen falls on Apr 19 with about 24h 0m of daylight. The shortest is Jan 1 with 0h 0m; the year-round average is 12h 32m.
In Longyearbyen 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; Frankfurt 09:00-17:00; Dubai 07:00-15:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.