Indexed entity
Rotterdam is the rotterdam-NL record in Netherlands: country slug the-netherlands, city slug rotterdam, ISO NL, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Amsterdam.
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Live local time
Rotterdam, Netherlands
12:47:04 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Europe/Amsterdam
Quick answer
It is currently 12:47:04 PM (CEST, UTC+02:00) in Rotterdam, Netherlands — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
19°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
33°C
21°C
Wed
23°C
16°C
Thu
25°C
12°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
05:27 AM
Sunset
09:52 PM
Day length
16h 25m
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 Rotterdam, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:47 AM UTC.
Current local time
12:47:04 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 Rotterdam right now
Nearest airport
RTM
Rotterdam The Hague Airport · 5 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 Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:47 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Rotterdam 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
11:47 AM / -1h
Dubai
02:47 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
Christmas Day on Friday, December 25, 2026
Travel cue
RTM Rotterdam, 5 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:27 AM to 09:52 PM, with solar noon around 01:40 PM and total daylight of 16h 25m.
Mapped location
51.92°N, 4.48°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:47 AM / -1h
Good live-call window with Rotterdam right now.
New York
06:47 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:47 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:47 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Rotterdam right now.
Singapore
06:47 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 Rotterdam.
RTM · Rotterdam The Hague Airport
Rotterdam
AMS · Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Amsterdam
EIN · Eindhoven Airport
Eindhoven
MST · Maastricht Aachen Airport
Maastricht
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 Rotterdam right now.
Check local interruptions
Christmas Day on Friday, December 25, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: RTM Rotterdam, 5 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
Rotterdam 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 Rotterdam.
Canonical route
/time/the-netherlands/rotterdam/
Catalog identity
rotterdam-NL · NL · Europe
Coordinate cell
51.92°N, 4.48°E · lat 51.922 · lon 4.479 · cell 5192:448
Population record
868,135 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Europe/Amsterdam · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+01:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
The Hague, The Netherlands · 21 km
Nearest world hub
London · 321 km
Closest airport references
RTM Rotterdam 5 km · AMS Amsterdam 47 km · EIN Eindhoven 81 km · MST Maastricht 144 km
Zone peer roster
Amsterdam, The Netherlands · The Hague, The Netherlands · Utrecht, The Netherlands
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Rotterdam: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Rotterdam is the rotterdam-NL record in Netherlands: country slug the-netherlands, city slug rotterdam, ISO NL, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Amsterdam.
51.92°N, 4.48°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 51 and longitude band 4; exact decimal pair 51.92250, 4.47917.
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 Rotterdam 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.
The Hague [the-hague-NL, NL, Europe/Amsterdam, 21 km]; Utrecht [utrecht-NL, NL, Europe/Amsterdam, 48 km]; Amsterdam [amsterdam-NL, NL, Europe/Amsterdam, 57 km]; Antwerpen [antwerpen-BE, BE, Europe/Brussels, 78 km]; Gent [gent-BE, BE, Europe/Brussels, 110 km]; Brussels [brussels-BE, BE, Europe/Brussels, 120 km]; Charleroi [charleroi-BE, BE, Europe/Brussels, 168 km]; Luxembourg [luxembourg-LU, LU, Europe/Luxembourg, 282 km]
Rotterdam 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 321 km; Dubai 5,174 km; New York 5,854 km; Los Angeles 8,954 km; Tokyo 9,345 km; São Paulo 9,750 km; Singapore 10,527 km; Sydney 16,690 km
RTM Rotterdam The Hague Airport in Rotterdam [NL, 5 km]; AMS Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in Amsterdam [NL, 47 km]; EIN Eindhoven Airport in Eindhoven [NL, 81 km]; MST Maastricht Aachen Airport in Maastricht [NL, 144 km]; GRQ Groningen Airport Eelde in Groningen [NL, 195 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].
Rotterdam renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:47 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 Rotterdam.
Rotterdam is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 4 retained Netherlands city pages. The route is /time/the-netherlands/rotterdam/ and the city id is rotterdam-NL.
Rotterdam 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.
Rotterdam is pinned at 51.92°N, 4.48°E; The Hague (21 km); London (321 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.
RTM Rotterdam The Hague Airport (5 km) · Christmas Day (Friday, December 25, 2026) · 5 country airport references · 11 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Rotterdam 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.
Rotterdam: Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands by population and the largest by area (319.4 km2). It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the New Meuse inland shipping channel, dug to connect to the Meuse at first and now to the Rhine.
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.
Rotterdam 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 4.48°, Rotterdam's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 42 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.
Rotterdam sits at 51.92°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 16 hours 29 minutes on the June solstice and about 7 hours 31 minutes on the December solstice.
Rotterdam sits at 51.92°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 16 hours 29 minutes on the June solstice and about 7 hours 31 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 18 (16h 43m)
Shortest day
Dec 20 (7h 45m)
Year-round average
12h 17m
Annual swing
8h 58m
See the full daylight curve for Rotterdam at /sun/rotterdam/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Rotterdam local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Rotterdam |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and home to Europe's largest seaport, set on the Nieuwe Maas in the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta. Its city population is around 660,000 with about 2.7 million in the Rotterdam-The Hague metropolitan region. The Port of Rotterdam stretches roughly 40 km from the city centre to the North Sea and serves as a gateway to industrial Europe via the Rhine. On 14 May 1940 the German Luftwaffe destroyed the medieval city centre in a single afternoon, leaving 80,000 people homeless; post-war reconstruction reinvented Rotterdam as an open-air laboratory of modern architecture. Today its skyline is among the most distinctive in Europe, with the Erasmus Bridge, the cube houses, the Markthal, and work by Rotterdam-based firms OMA and MVRDV. The city observes Central European Time (CET, UTC+1) with CEST (UTC+2) during daylight saving.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-23 (research).
Reference fields include Rotterdam's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:47:04 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Rotterdam (UTC+02:00, CEST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:27 AM to 09:52 PM
Day length 16h 25m · Solar noon 01:40 PM
Next country holiday
Christmas Day
Friday, December 25, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Rotterdam local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
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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
Population
868.1K
Coordinates
51.92, 4.48
Timezone
Europe/Amsterdam
Indexed airports
5
Capital
Amsterdam
Languages
Dutch
Currency
EUR (€)
Country area
41,865 km²
Rotterdam, Netherlands (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Europe/Amsterdam (CEST, UTC+02:00); population ~868.1K.
Coordinates: 51.92°N, 4.48°E. Northern Hemisphere high mid-latitudes, ~5763 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:27 AM and sets around 09:52 PM in Rotterdam — about 16h 25m of daylight. Netherlands observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
The Hague (21 km from Rotterdam) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 5 curated airport pages indexed for Netherlands.
Next national holiday: Christmas Day, 2026-12-25.
Rotterdam 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/rotterdam/.
Location context: 51.92°N, 4.48°E; population 868,135; nearest indexed city The Hague is about 21 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 321 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.
Rotterdam 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 4.48°, Rotterdam's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 42 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.
Rotterdam sits at 51.92°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 16 hours 29 minutes on the June solstice and about 7 hours 31 minutes on the December solstice.
Sizeable city with about 868 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Rotterdam: Amsterdam (same time), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), London (−1h), Berlin (same time).
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 Rotterdam.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Rotterdam: closest hubs London (~321 km), Dubai (~5,174 km), New York (~5,854 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~16,690 km).
Rotterdam sits inside Netherlands — the Western Europe subregion, capital Amsterdam, languages Dutch, currency EUR (€).
Closest indexed cities to Rotterdam: The Hague (21 km), Utrecht (48 km), Amsterdam (57 km), Antwerpen (78 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Rotterdam: 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 Rotterdam: RTM Rotterdam (5 km), AMS Amsterdam (47 km), EIN Eindhoven (81 km).
Rotterdam The Hague AirportRTM
Rotterdam · 5 km from Rotterdam
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 45m
Amsterdam Airport SchipholAMS
Amsterdam · 47 km from Rotterdam
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 49m
Eindhoven AirportEIN
Eindhoven · 81 km from Rotterdam
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 51m
Maastricht Aachen AirportMST
Maastricht · 144 km from Rotterdam
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 56m
Groningen Airport EeldeGRQ
Groningen · 195 km from Rotterdam
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 0m
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 | 11:47 AM | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:47 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:47 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:47 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:47 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:47 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:47 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:47 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Rotterdam is in the Europe/Amsterdam timezone (CEST), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Rotterdam 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 Rotterdam is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Rotterdam, 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 · 12:47 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Rotterdam sits at 51.92°N, 4.48°E in Netherlands, with about 868.1K residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Rotterdam is London, about 321 km away as the crow flies.
The Hague is the closest indexed city, roughly 21 km from Rotterdam.
Rotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM) is the closest curated airport reference, about 5 km from Rotterdam.
Christmas Day is the next upcoming holiday in Netherlands, on Friday, December 25, 2026.
Rotterdam uses euro (EUR, symbol €) as the local currency of Netherlands.
The longest day of 2026 in Rotterdam falls on Jun 18 with about 16h 43m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 20 with 7h 45m; the year-round average is 12h 17m.
In Rotterdam 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.