Indexed entity
London is the london-GB record in United Kingdom: country slug united-kingdom, city slug london, ISO GB, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/London.
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Live local time
London, United Kingdom
11:45:08 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Europe/London
Quick answer
It is currently 11:45:08 AM (BST, UTC+01:00) in London, United Kingdom — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
21°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
35°C
23°C
25% rain
Wed
25°C
14°C
Thu
27°C
13°C
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PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
British Pound
1 USD = 0.7453 GBP
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
04:48 AM
Sunset
09:09 PM
Day length
16h 21m
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 London, 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
11:45:08 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
BST
Europe/London · UTC+01:00
Next holiday
World Cup Bank Holiday
Monday, June 15, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
1 / 7
Reference markets are overlapping with London right now
Nearest airport
LHR
London Heathrow Airport · 24 km
Indexed airports
15
Curated airport references available for United Kingdom
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to London, United Kingdom.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 11:45 GMT+1
1 reference city is overlapping now
London is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+01:00
Zone label
GMT+1
Dubai
02:45 PM / +3h
Schedule risk
World Cup Bank Holiday on Monday, June 15, 2026
Travel cue
LHR London, 24 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 04:48 AM to 09:09 PM, with solar noon around 12:59 PM and total daylight of 16h 21m.
Mapped location
51.51°N, 0.13°W
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
New York
06:45 AM / -5h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:45 AM / -8h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:45 PM / +3h
Good live-call window with London right now.
Singapore
06:45 PM / +7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Tokyo
07:45 PM / +8h
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 London.
LHR · London Heathrow Airport
London
LGW · London Gatwick Airport
London
LTN · London Luton Airport
Luton, Luton
STN · London Stansted Airport
London, Essex
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Europe/London for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+01:00; seasonal offset, UTC+00:00 in January and UTC+01:00 in July.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with Dubai because they overlap with London right now.
Check local interruptions
World Cup Bank Holiday on Monday, June 15, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: LHR London, 24 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
Next detected clock change: October 25, 2026, moving back from 2026-10-25 01:59 (GMT+1) to 2026-10-25 01:00 (GMT).
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
London 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 London.
Canonical route
/time/united-kingdom/london/
Catalog identity
london-GB · GB · Europe
Coordinate cell
51.51°N, 0.13°W · lat 51.509 · lon -0.126 · cell 5151:-13
Population record
8,961,989 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Europe/London · GMT+1 · UTC+01:00
January / July offsets
UTC+00:00 / UTC+01:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Birmingham, United Kingdom · 163 km
Nearest world hub
London · null km
Closest airport references
LHR London 24 km · LGW London 40 km · LTN Luton, Luton 44 km · STN London, Essex 49 km
Zone peer roster
Birmingham, United Kingdom · Glasgow, United Kingdom · Manchester, United Kingdom
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for London: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
London is the london-GB record in United Kingdom: country slug united-kingdom, city slug london, ISO GB, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/London.
51.51°N, 0.13°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 51 and longitude band -1; exact decimal pair 51.50853, -0.12574.
United Kingdom: official name United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; capital London; region Europe; subregion Northern Europe; country population 69,281,437; area 244,376 km²; languages English; currencies GBP British pound. This is the country layer behind the London clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
United Kingdom: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with a population of over 69 million in 2024. The UK includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and most of the smaller islands within the British Isles, covering 94,354 square miles (244,376 km2). It shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland and is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea, while maintaining sovereignty over the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. The capital and largest city of England and the UK is London; Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast are the national capitals of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, respectively. Source: Wikipedia.
Birmingham [birmingham-GB, GB, Europe/London, 163 km]; Manchester [manchester-GB, GB, Europe/London, 262 km]; Gent [gent-BE, BE, Europe/Brussels, 272 km]; Saint Peter Port [saint-peter-port-GG, GG, Europe/Guernsey, 285 km]; Saint Helier [saint-helier-JE, JE, Europe/Jersey, 294 km]; The Hague [the-hague-NL, NL, Europe/Amsterdam, 311 km]; Antwerpen [antwerpen-BE, BE, Europe/Brussels, 316 km]; Brussels [brussels-BE, BE, Europe/Brussels, 320 km]
London is part of this indexed country cluster: London [london-GB, Europe/London, pop 8,961,989]; Birmingham [birmingham-GB, Europe/London, pop 1,157,603]; Glasgow [glasgow-GB, Europe/London, pop 626,410]; Manchester [manchester-GB, Europe/London, pop 568,996].
London null km; Dubai 5,473 km; New York 5,570 km; Los Angeles 8,756 km; São Paulo 9,498 km; Tokyo 9,558 km; Singapore 10,848 km; Sydney 16,994 km
LHR London Heathrow Airport in London [GB, 24 km]; LGW London Gatwick Airport in London [GB, 40 km]; LTN London Luton Airport in Luton, Luton [GB, 44 km]; STN London Stansted Airport in London, Essex [GB, 49 km]; BHX Birmingham Airport in Birmingham, West Midlands [GB, 153 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include BFS Belfast International Airport in Belfast [GB]; BHX Birmingham Airport in Birmingham, West Midlands [GB]; BRS Bristol Airport in Bristol [GB]; CWL Cardiff International Airport in Cardiff [GB]; EDI Edinburgh Airport in Edinburgh [GB]; EMA East Midlands Airport in Nottingham, Leicestershire [GB]; GLA Glasgow Airport in Glasgow [GB]; LBA Leeds Bradford Airport in Leeds, West Yorkshire [GB]; LGW London Gatwick Airport in London [GB]; LHR London Heathrow Airport in London [GB].
London renders Jun 2, 2026 · 11:45 GMT+1; GMT+1 at UTC+01:00; January UTC+00:00; July UTC+01:00; next holiday World Cup Bank Holiday on 2026-06-15.
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 London.
London is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 4 retained United Kingdom city pages. The route is /time/united-kingdom/london/ and the city id is london-GB.
London 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.
London is pinned at 51.51°N, 0.13°W; Birmingham (163 km); London (null km).
Europe/London resolves to seasonal offset split: UTC+00:00 in January and UTC+01:00 in July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside United Kingdom.
LHR London Heathrow Airport (24 km) · World Cup Bank Holiday (Monday, June 15, 2026) · 15 country airport references · 14 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
London 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.
London: London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of 9.1 million people in 2024. Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 15.1 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a 50-mile (80 km) tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the site of the national government and parliament for centuries. London grew rapidly in the 19th century, becoming the world's largest city at the time. Since the 19th century the name "London" has referred to the metropolis around the City of London, historically split among the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent and Hertfordshire. Since 1965 it has largely comprised the administrative area of Greater London, governed by 33 local authorities and the Greater London Authority.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC+00:00 and summer UTC+01:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone Europe/London.
London is listed in the dataset snapshot as 1 hour ahead of UTC (offset +01:00). 8 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -0.13°, London's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 1 minute after civil 12:00 under the sampled +01:00 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.
London sits at 51.51°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 16 hours 24 minutes on the June solstice and about 7 hours 36 minutes on the December solstice.
London sits at 51.51°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 16 hours 24 minutes on the June solstice and about 7 hours 36 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 38m)
Shortest day
Dec 21 (7h 49m)
Year-round average
12h 16m
Annual swing
8h 49m
See the full daylight curve for London at /sun/london/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into London local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in London |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 14:00 - 22:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 06:00 - 14:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 04:30 - 12:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 02:00 - 10:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 02:00 - 10:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 01:00 - 09:00 |
Public holidays in 2026
14
Capital status
National capital of United Kingdom
London is the capital and largest city of the United Kingdom with about 9 million residents in Greater London and around 14 million across the wider metropolitan area. Civil time is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT, UTC+0) in winter and British Summer Time (BST, UTC+1) from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October. The city is one of the two pre-eminent global financial centres alongside New York, anchored by the London Stock Exchange and the City of London corporation, and the British pound is the world's fourth-most-traded reserve currency. London hosts more international visitors than any other city, was the first city to host the modern Summer Olympics three times (1908, 1948, 2012), and the Royal Observatory in Greenwich is the basis of the historical zero meridian and IANA's Europe/London zone.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-09 (manual).
Reference fields include London's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 11:45:08 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in London (UTC+01:00, BST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
04:48 AM to 09:09 PM
Day length 16h 21m · Solar noon 12:59 PM
Next country holiday
World Cup Bank Holiday
Monday, June 15, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for London local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Mobile World Congress 2027
keynoteMonday, March 1, 2027
272 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
Gamescom 2026
keynoteWednesday, August 26, 2026
85 days to go
IFA Berlin 2026
keynoteFriday, September 4, 2026
94 days to go
Translate major exchange sessions into London local time. These links are shown only for curated financial-center city pages that have valid market-hour routes.
Population
9M
Coordinates
51.51, -0.13
Timezone
Europe/London
Indexed airports
15
Capital
London
Languages
English
Currency
GBP (£)
Country area
244,376 km²
London, United Kingdom (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Europe/London (BST, UTC+01:00); population ~9M.
Coordinates: 51.51°N, 0.13°W. Northern Hemisphere high mid-latitudes, ~5717 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 04:48 AM and sets around 09:09 PM in London — about 16h 21m of daylight. United Kingdom observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
Birmingham (163 km from London) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 15 curated airport pages indexed for United Kingdom.
Next national holiday: World Cup Bank Holiday, 2026-06-15.
London is indexed as a Europe city in the GB country record, using Europe/London as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/united-kingdom/london/.
Location context: 51.51°N, 0.13°W; population 8,961,989; nearest indexed city Birmingham is about 163 km away; closest reference hub is London, about null km away.
Country planning context: capital London; subregion Northern Europe; languages English; currency GBP (£); area 244,376 km²; 15 curated airport references; next holiday World Cup Bank Holiday on 2026-06-15.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC+00:00 and summer UTC+01:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone Europe/London.
London is listed in the dataset snapshot as 1 hour ahead of UTC (offset +01:00). 8 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -0.13°, London's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 1 minute after civil 12:00 under the sampled +01:00 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.
London sits at 51.51°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 16 hours 24 minutes on the June solstice and about 7 hours 36 minutes on the December solstice.
Major metropolitan area with around 9 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for London: Birmingham (same time), Sydney (+9h), Tokyo (+8h), Berlin (+1h), Paris (+1h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
united-kingdom
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
BST
IANA Zone
Europe/London
UTC Offset
UTC+01:00
DST Status
Observing DST
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+01:00
Algeria, Tunisia, Isle of Man, Ireland, United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, Central African Republic
Other cities in this timezone
New York
-5h
Los Angeles
-8h
Dubai
+3h
Singapore
+7h
Tokyo
+8h
Sydney
+9h
São Paulo
-4h
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 London.
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City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from London: closest hubs London (~null km), Dubai (~5,473 km), New York (~5,570 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~16,994 km).
London sits inside United Kingdom — the Northern Europe subregion, capital London, languages English, currency GBP (£).
Closest indexed cities to London: Birmingham (163 km), Manchester (262 km), Gent (272 km), Saint Peter Port (285 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around London: World Cup Bank Holiday, Battle of the Boyne, Summer Bank Holiday. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for United Kingdom.
Closest curated airport references from London: LHR London (24 km), LGW London (40 km), LTN Luton, Luton (44 km).
United Kingdom pages should actively explain the switch between GMT and BST instead of assuming users already know it.
London Heathrow AirportLHR
London · 24 km from London
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 47m
London Gatwick AirportLGW
London · 40 km from London
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 48m
London Luton AirportLTN
Luton, Luton · 44 km from London
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 48m
London Stansted AirportSTN
London, Essex · 49 km from London
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 49m
Birmingham AirportBHX
Birmingham, West Midlands · 153 km from London
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 57m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
1 of 7 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 06:45 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:45 AM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:45 PM | +3h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:45 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:45 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:45 PM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:45 AM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Approx. 163 km away
Manchester
United Kingdom
Approx. 262 km away
Gent
Belgium
Approx. 272 km away
Saint Peter Port
Guernsey
Approx. 285 km away
Saint Helier
Jersey
Approx. 294 km away
The Hague
Netherlands
Approx. 311 km away
Antwerpen
Belgium
Approx. 316 km away
Brussels
Belgium
Approx. 320 km away
London is in the Europe/London timezone (BST), with a UTC offset of +01:00.
London uses seasonal daylight saving rules in Europe/London. The current offset is UTC+01:00; January resolves to UTC+00:00 and July resolves to UTC+01:00.
The current UTC offset for London is UTC+01:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for London, 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 · 11:45 GMT+1. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
London sits at 51.51°N, 0.13°W in United Kingdom, with about 9M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to London is London, about null km away as the crow flies.
Birmingham is the closest indexed city, roughly 163 km from London.
London Heathrow Airport (LHR) is the closest curated airport reference, about 24 km from London.
World Cup Bank Holiday is the next upcoming holiday in United Kingdom, on Monday, June 15, 2026.
London uses British pound (GBP, symbol £) as the local currency of United Kingdom.
The longest day of 2026 in London falls on Jun 17 with about 16h 38m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 21 with 7h 49m; the year-round average is 12h 16m.
In London local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 14:00-22:00; Frankfurt 08:00-16:00; Dubai 06:00-14:00; Mumbai 04:30-12:30. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.