Indexed entity
Amsterdam is the amsterdam-NL record in Netherlands: country slug the-netherlands, city slug amsterdam, ISO NL, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Amsterdam.
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Live local time
Amsterdam, Netherlands
12:45:00 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Europe/Amsterdam
Quick answer
It is currently 12:45:00 PM (CEST, UTC+02:00) in Amsterdam, Netherlands — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
18°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
31°C
20°C
Wed
21°C
14°C
Thu
24°C
10°C
In 206 days
Eerste Kerstdag (Christmas Day)
Fri, Dec 25, 2026
PublicIn 207 days
Tweede Kerstdag (St. Stephen's Day)
Sat, Dec 26, 2026
PublicIn 213 days
Nieuwjaarsdag (New Year's Day)
Fri, Jan 1, 2027
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Euro
1 USD = 0.8624 EUR
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
05:23 AM
Sunset
09:53 PM
Day length
16h 30m
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 Amsterdam, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:45 AM UTC.
Current local time
12:45:00 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CEST
Europe/Amsterdam · UTC+02:00
Next holiday
Christmas Day
Friday, December 25, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Amsterdam right now
Nearest airport
AMS
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol · 11 km
Indexed airports
5
Curated airport references available for Netherlands
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:45 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Amsterdam 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
11:45 AM / -1h
Dubai
02:45 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
Christmas Day on Friday, December 25, 2026
Travel cue
AMS Amsterdam, 11 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:23 AM to 09:53 PM, with solar noon around 01:38 PM and total daylight of 16h 30m.
Mapped location
52.37°N, 4.89°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:45 AM / -1h
Good live-call window with Amsterdam right now.
New York
06:45 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:45 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:45 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Amsterdam right now.
Singapore
06:45 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 Amsterdam.
AMS · Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Amsterdam
RTM · Rotterdam The Hague Airport
Rotterdam
EIN · Eindhoven Airport
Eindhoven
GRQ · Groningen Airport Eelde
Groningen
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Europe/Amsterdam 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 Amsterdam right now.
Check local interruptions
Christmas Day on Friday, December 25, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: AMS Amsterdam, 11 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
Amsterdam 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 Amsterdam.
Canonical route
/time/the-netherlands/amsterdam/
Catalog identity
amsterdam-NL · NL · Europe
Coordinate cell
52.37°N, 4.89°E · lat 52.374 · lon 4.890 · cell 5237:489
Population record
741,636 residents · country rank 2
Zone snapshot
Europe/Amsterdam · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+01:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Utrecht, The Netherlands · 35 km
Nearest world hub
London · 357 km
Closest airport references
AMS Amsterdam 11 km · RTM Rotterdam 56 km · EIN Eindhoven 108 km · GRQ Groningen 141 km
Zone peer roster
Rotterdam, The Netherlands · The Hague, The Netherlands · Utrecht, The Netherlands
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Amsterdam: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Amsterdam is the amsterdam-NL record in Netherlands: country slug the-netherlands, city slug amsterdam, ISO NL, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Amsterdam.
52.37°N, 4.89°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 52 and longitude band 4; exact decimal pair 52.37403, 4.88969.
Netherlands: official name Kingdom of the Netherlands; capital Amsterdam; region Europe; subregion Western Europe; country population 18,100,436; area 41,865 km²; languages Dutch; currencies EUR euro. This is the country layer behind the Amsterdam clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Netherlands: The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands consists of twelve provinces and three overseas special municipalities. European Netherlands has land borders with Germany to the east and with Belgium to the south, and a coastline to the north and west. It shares maritime borders with the United Kingdom, Germany, and Belgium in the North Sea. The official language is Dutch, with West Frisian as a secondary official language in the province of Friesland. Dutch, English, and Papiamento are official in the Caribbean territories. People from the Netherlands are referred to as Dutch. Source: Wikipedia.
Utrecht [utrecht-NL, NL, Europe/Amsterdam, 35 km]; The Hague [the-hague-NL, NL, Europe/Amsterdam, 52 km]; Rotterdam [rotterdam-NL, NL, Europe/Amsterdam, 57 km]; Antwerpen [antwerpen-BE, BE, Europe/Brussels, 133 km]; Gent [gent-BE, BE, Europe/Brussels, 168 km]; Brussels [brussels-BE, BE, Europe/Brussels, 173 km]; Charleroi [charleroi-BE, BE, Europe/Brussels, 220 km]; Luxembourg [luxembourg-LU, LU, Europe/Luxembourg, 319 km]
Amsterdam is part of this indexed country cluster: Rotterdam [rotterdam-NL, Europe/Amsterdam, pop 868,135]; Amsterdam [amsterdam-NL, Europe/Amsterdam, pop 741,636]; The Hague [the-hague-NL, Europe/Amsterdam, pop 474,292]; Utrecht [utrecht-NL, Europe/Amsterdam, pop 376,435].
London 357 km; Dubai 5,160 km; New York 5,862 km; Los Angeles 8,939 km; Tokyo 9,288 km; São Paulo 9,805 km; Singapore 10,493 km; Sydney 16,643 km
AMS Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in Amsterdam [NL, 11 km]; RTM Rotterdam The Hague Airport in Rotterdam [NL, 56 km]; EIN Eindhoven Airport in Eindhoven [NL, 108 km]; GRQ Groningen Airport Eelde in Groningen [NL, 141 km]; MST Maastricht Aachen Airport in Maastricht [NL, 174 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include AMS Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in Amsterdam [NL]; EIN Eindhoven Airport in Eindhoven [NL]; GRQ Groningen Airport Eelde in Groningen [NL]; MST Maastricht Aachen Airport in Maastricht [NL]; RTM Rotterdam The Hague Airport in Rotterdam [NL].
Amsterdam renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:45 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 Amsterdam.
Amsterdam is a manual-dossier city; rank #2 of 4 retained Netherlands city pages. The route is /time/the-netherlands/amsterdam/ and the city id is amsterdam-NL.
Amsterdam 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.
Amsterdam is pinned at 52.37°N, 4.89°E; Utrecht (35 km); London (357 km).
Europe/Amsterdam 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 Netherlands.
AMS Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (11 km) · Christmas Day (Friday, December 25, 2026) · 5 country airport references · 11 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Amsterdam 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.
Amsterdam: Amsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the urban area and 2,480,394 in the metropolitan area. Located in the Dutch province of North Holland, Amsterdam is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the North", for its large number of canals, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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/Amsterdam.
Amsterdam 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 4.89°, Amsterdam's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 40 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.
Amsterdam sits at 52.37°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 16 hours 34 minutes on the June solstice and about 7 hours 26 minutes on the December solstice.
Amsterdam sits at 52.37°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 16 hours 34 minutes on the June solstice and about 7 hours 26 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 17 (16h 48m)
Shortest day
Dec 21 (7h 40m)
Year-round average
12h 17m
Annual swing
9h 8m
See the full daylight curve for Amsterdam at /sun/amsterdam/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Amsterdam local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Amsterdam |
|---|---|---|
| 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
11
Capital status
National capital of Netherlands
Amsterdam is the constitutional capital of the Netherlands and the country's largest city, with about 920,000 residents in the city proper and roughly 2.5 million in the metropolitan area. Central European Time (CET, UTC+1) and Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+2) apply with DST on the EU schedule. The Dutch government and most embassies are located in The Hague, but Amsterdam houses Euronext Amsterdam — the successor to the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, founded in 1602 by the Dutch East India Company and widely considered the oldest modern securities exchange in the world. The historic canal ring (grachtengordel) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2010. Schiphol Airport, just outside the city, is one of the busiest passenger airports in Europe and the main hub of KLM, the world's oldest operating airline (founded 1919).
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-11 (manual).
Reference fields include Amsterdam's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:45:00 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Amsterdam (UTC+02:00, CEST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:23 AM to 09:53 PM
Day length 16h 30m · Solar noon 01:38 PM
Next country holiday
Christmas Day
Friday, December 25, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Amsterdam local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
741.6K
Coordinates
52.37, 4.89
Timezone
Europe/Amsterdam
Indexed airports
5
Capital
Amsterdam
Languages
Dutch
Currency
EUR (€)
Country area
41,865 km²
Amsterdam, Netherlands (population rank #2 in this dataset). Time zone: Europe/Amsterdam (CEST, UTC+02:00); population ~741.6K.
Coordinates: 52.37°N, 4.89°E. Northern Hemisphere high mid-latitudes, ~5814 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:23 AM and sets around 09:53 PM in Amsterdam — about 16h 30m of daylight. Netherlands observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
Utrecht (35 km from Amsterdam) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 5 curated airport pages indexed for Netherlands.
Next national holiday: Christmas Day, 2026-12-25.
Amsterdam is indexed as a Europe city in the NL country record, using Europe/Amsterdam as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/the-netherlands/amsterdam/.
Location context: 52.37°N, 4.89°E; population 741,636; nearest indexed city Utrecht is about 35 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 357 km away.
Country planning context: capital Amsterdam; subregion Western Europe; languages Dutch; currency EUR (€); area 41,865 km²; 5 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 Europe/Amsterdam.
Amsterdam 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 4.89°, Amsterdam's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 40 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.
Amsterdam sits at 52.37°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 16 hours 34 minutes on the June solstice and about 7 hours 26 minutes on the December solstice.
Sizeable city with about 742 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Amsterdam: Rotterdam (same time), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), Berlin (same time), London (−1h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
the-netherlands
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
CEST
IANA Zone
Europe/Amsterdam
UTC Offset
UTC+02:00
DST Status
Observing DST
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
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 Amsterdam.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Amsterdam: closest hubs London (~357 km), Dubai (~5,160 km), New York (~5,862 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~16,643 km).
Amsterdam sits inside Netherlands — the Western Europe subregion, capital Amsterdam, languages Dutch, currency EUR (€).
Closest indexed cities to Amsterdam: Utrecht (35 km), The Hague (52 km), Rotterdam (57 km), Antwerpen (133 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Amsterdam: Christmas Day, St. Stephen's Day, New Year's Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Netherlands.
Closest curated airport references from Amsterdam: AMS Amsterdam (11 km), RTM Rotterdam (56 km), EIN Eindhoven (108 km).
Amsterdam Airport SchipholAMS
Amsterdam · 11 km from Amsterdam
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Rotterdam The Hague AirportRTM
Rotterdam · 56 km from Amsterdam
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 49m
Eindhoven AirportEIN
Eindhoven · 108 km from Amsterdam
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 53m
Groningen Airport EeldeGRQ
Groningen · 141 km from Amsterdam
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 56m
Maastricht Aachen AirportMST
Maastricht · 174 km from Amsterdam
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 58m
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 | 11:45 AM | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:45 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:45 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:45 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:45 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:45 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:45 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:45 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Amsterdam is in the Europe/Amsterdam timezone (CEST), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Amsterdam uses seasonal daylight saving rules in Europe/Amsterdam. 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 Amsterdam is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Amsterdam, 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 · 12:45 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Amsterdam sits at 52.37°N, 4.89°E in Netherlands, with about 741.6K residents (rank #2 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Amsterdam is London, about 357 km away as the crow flies.
Utrecht is the closest indexed city, roughly 35 km from Amsterdam.
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS) is the closest curated airport reference, about 11 km from Amsterdam.
Christmas Day is the next upcoming holiday in Netherlands, on Friday, December 25, 2026.
Amsterdam uses euro (EUR, symbol €) as the local currency of Netherlands.
The longest day of 2026 in Amsterdam falls on Jun 17 with about 16h 48m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 21 with 7h 40m; the year-round average is 12h 17m.
In Amsterdam 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.