Indexed entity
Vatican City is the vatican-city-VA record in Vatican City: country slug vatican, city slug vatican-city, ISO VA, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Vatican.
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Live local time
Vatican City, Vatican City
12:44:51 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Europe/Vatican
Quick answer
It is currently 12:44:51 PM (CEST, UTC+02:00) in Vatican City, Vatican City — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
18°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
33°C
18°C
Wed
31°C
19°C
Thu
30°C
19°C
35% rain
In 27 days
Santi Pietro e Paolo (Saint Peter and Saint Paul)
Mon, Jun 29, 2026
PublicIn 74 days
Assunzione di Maria in Cielo (Assumption Day)
Sat, Aug 15, 2026
PublicIn 98 days
Festa della natività della madonna (Nativity of Mary)
Tue, Sep 8, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Euro
1 USD = 0.8624 EUR
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
05:36 AM
Sunset
08:39 PM
Day length
15h 3m
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 Vatican City, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:44 AM UTC.
Current local time
12:44:51 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CEST
Europe/Vatican · UTC+02:00
Next holiday
Saint Peter and Saint Paul
Monday, June 29, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Vatican City right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Vatican City
Indexed airports
0
Curated airport references available for Vatican City
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Vatican City, Vatican City.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:44 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Vatican City 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
11:44 AM / -1h
Dubai
02:44 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
Saint Peter and Saint Paul on Monday, June 29, 2026
Travel cue
Rome, 5 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:36 AM to 08:39 PM, with solar noon around 01:08 PM and total daylight of 15h 3m.
Mapped location
41.90°N, 12.45°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:44 AM / -1h
Good live-call window with Vatican City right now.
New York
06:44 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:44 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:44 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Vatican City right now.
Singapore
06:44 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 Vatican City.
No curated airport is currently mapped close enough to show as a planning cue.
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Europe/Vatican 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 Vatican City right now.
Check local interruptions
Saint Peter and Saint Paul on Monday, June 29, 2026. Nearest mapped context: Rome, 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
Vatican City 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 Vatican City.
Canonical route
/time/vatican/vatican-city/
Catalog identity
vatican-city-VA · VA · Europe
Coordinate cell
41.90°N, 12.45°E · lat 41.903 · lon 12.454 · cell 4190:1245
Population record
829 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Europe/Vatican · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+01:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Rome, Italy · 5 km
Nearest world hub
London · 1,432 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Vatican City
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Vatican City: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Vatican City is the vatican-city-VA record in Vatican City: country slug vatican, city slug vatican-city, ISO VA, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Vatican.
41.90°N, 12.45°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 41 and longitude band 12; exact decimal pair 41.90268, 12.45414.
Vatican City: official name Vatican City State; capital Vatican City; region Europe; subregion Southern Europe; country population 882; area 0 km²; languages Italian, Latin; currencies EUR euro. This is the country layer behind the Vatican City clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Vatican: Vatican may refer to: Source: Wikipedia.
Rome [rome-IT, IT, Europe/Rome, 5 km]; Naples [naples-IT, IT, Europe/Rome, 191 km]; San Marino [san-marino-SM, SM, Europe/San_Marino, 226 km]; Split [split-HR, HR, Europe/Zagreb, 371 km]; Rijeka [rijeka-HR, HR, Europe/Zagreb, 413 km]; Monte-Carlo [monte-carlo-MC, MC, Europe/Monaco, 458 km]; Monaco [monaco-MC, MC, Europe/Monaco, 458 km]; Milan [milan-IT, IT, Europe/Rome, 475 km]
Vatican City is part of this indexed country cluster: Vatican City [vatican-city-VA, Europe/Vatican, pop 829].
London 1,432 km; Dubai 4,324 km; New York 6,887 km; São Paulo 9,474 km; Tokyo 9,855 km; Singapore 10,020 km; Los Angeles 10,187 km; Sydney 16,325 km
Vatican City has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Vatican City.
Vatican City renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:44 GMT+2; GMT+2 at UTC+02:00; January UTC+01:00; July UTC+02:00; next holiday Saint Peter and Saint Paul on 2026-06-29.
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 Vatican City.
Vatican City is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 1 retained Vatican City city page. The route is /time/vatican/vatican-city/ and the city id is vatican-city-VA.
Vatican City 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.
Vatican City is pinned at 41.90°N, 12.45°E; Rome (5 km); London (1,432 km).
Europe/Vatican 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 Vatican City.
Vatican City has no direct nearby-airport handoff · Saint Peter and Saint Paul (Monday, June 29, 2026) · 0 country airport references · 15 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Vatican City 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.
Flag of Vatican City: The flag of Vatican City, also referred to as the flag of the Holy See, consists of vertical bicolour of yellow and white, with the white half charged with the emblem of the Holy See. It was adopted in 1929, the year Pope Pius XI signed the Lateran Treaty with Italy, creating the new independent state of Vatican City.
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/Vatican.
Vatican City 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 12.45°, Vatican City's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 10 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.
Vatican City sits at 41.90°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 3 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 57 minutes on the December solstice.
Vatican City sits at 41.90°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 3 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 57 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 (15h 14m)
Shortest day
Dec 20 (9h 7m)
Year-round average
12h 13m
Annual swing
6h 7m
See the full daylight curve for Vatican City at /sun/vatican-city/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Vatican City local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Vatican City |
|---|---|---|
| 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
15
Capital status
National capital of Vatican City
Vatican City is the world's smallest sovereign state by area and population, fully surrounded by Rome and governed by the Holy See. It contains St. Peter's Basilica, the Apostolic Palace, the Vatican Museums, and the Sistine Chapel, making it both a political entity and one of the most visited religious-cultural sites in the world. Vatican City uses Central European Time (CET, UTC+1) and Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+2) on the Italian/EU DST schedule. The clock matters for papal audiences, liturgical calendars, museum tickets, and diplomatic scheduling with the Holy See.
Reference fields include Vatican City's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:44:51 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Vatican City (UTC+02:00, CEST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:36 AM to 08:39 PM
Day length 15h 3m · Solar noon 01:08 PM
Next country holiday
Saint Peter and Saint Paul
Monday, June 29, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Vatican City 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
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
Population
829
Coordinates
41.90, 12.45
Timezone
Europe/Vatican
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Vatican City
Languages
Italian, Latin
Currency
EUR (€)
Country area
0 km²
Vatican City, Vatican City (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Europe/Vatican (CEST, UTC+02:00); population ~829.
Coordinates: 41.90°N, 12.45°E. Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, ~4651 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:36 AM and sets around 08:39 PM in Vatican City — about 15h 3m of daylight. Vatican City observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
Rome (5 km from Vatican City) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Vatican City.
Next national holiday: Saint Peter and Saint Paul, 2026-06-29.
Vatican City is indexed as a Europe city in the VA country record, using Europe/Vatican as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/vatican/vatican-city/.
Location context: 41.90°N, 12.45°E; population 829; nearest indexed city Rome is about 5 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 1,432 km away.
Country planning context: capital Vatican City; subregion Southern Europe; languages Italian, Latin; currency EUR (€); area 0 km²; 0 curated airport references; next holiday Saint Peter and Saint Paul on 2026-06-29.
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/Vatican.
Vatican City 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 12.45°, Vatican City's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 10 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.
Vatican City sits at 41.90°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 3 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 57 minutes on the December solstice.
Related clock anchors for Vatican City: San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), New York City (−6h), Tokyo (+7h), Mumbai (+3.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
vatican
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
CEST
IANA Zone
Europe/Vatican
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 Vatican City.
Public-disclosure tracker
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Vatican City: closest hubs London (~1,432 km), Dubai (~4,324 km), New York (~6,887 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~16,325 km).
Vatican City sits inside Vatican City — the Southern Europe subregion, capital Vatican City, languages Italian, Latin, currency EUR (€).
Closest indexed cities to Vatican City: Rome (5 km), Naples (191 km), San Marino (226 km), Split (371 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Vatican City: Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Assumption Day, Nativity of Mary. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Vatican City.
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Vatican City, 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 | 11:44 AM | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:44 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:44 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:44 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:44 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:44 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:44 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:44 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Vatican City is in the Europe/Vatican timezone (CEST), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Vatican City uses seasonal daylight saving rules in Europe/Vatican. 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 Vatican City is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Vatican City, 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 · 12:44 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Vatican City sits at 41.90°N, 12.45°E in Vatican City, with about 829 residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Vatican City is London, about 1,432 km away as the crow flies.
Rome is the closest indexed city, roughly 5 km from Vatican City.
Saint Peter and Saint Paul is the next upcoming holiday in Vatican City, on Monday, June 29, 2026.
Vatican City uses euro (EUR, symbol €) as the local currency of Vatican City.
The longest day of 2026 in Vatican City falls on Jun 18 with about 15h 14m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 20 with 9h 7m; the year-round average is 12h 13m.
In Vatican City 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.