Time Zones| Zone areas | Time now | January 2026 | July 2026 | Largest cities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin, Busingen | --:-- | UTC+1 | UTC+2 | Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Köln |
How many times does Germany have?
The IANA database lists 2 separate zone areas for Germany. Grouped by the time they actually show through 2026, that makes one clock for the whole country, listed above. Every area is on UTC+1 in January.
2 of the 2 areas change their clocks during the year. Open an area to see its dates.
Planning across the country
When you fix a call or a broadcast for people in several parts of Germany, give the time with its zone, or use the converter to show every zone at once.
Where most people are
The towns of 15,000 people or more in Germany hold about 54 million people between them (GeoNames figures), and all of them read the same clock: UTC+1. The largest is Berlin.
Why several areas, if the clock is the same?
Every part of Germany shows the same time today. The time zone database still keeps 2 separate entries, because at some point in the past these places kept different times, or changed their clocks on different dates. Software needs the separate entries to work out old dates correctly. For today and for the future, you can treat the country as one time zone.
Germany and the rest of the world
When it is 12:00 noon in Berlin, it is 4:30 pm in India in January and 3:30 pm in July; 11:00 am in London; 6:00 am in New York. Other parts of Germany are earlier or later than that by the amounts in the table at the top of this page.
Clock changes in 2026
In Berlin the dates are: Sunday 29 March 2026: at 2:00 am clocks go forward 1 hour to 3:00 am; Sunday 25 October 2026: at 3:00 am clocks go back 1 hour to 2:00 am.