What's the Time in England?
If you want to know what the time is in England, how long British Summer Time lasts or what time it is in Timbuktu when it's 1pm in London, then you've come to the right page.
During the winter months, all of England is on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT or UTC). This is the same time zone as Iceland or the Canary Islands. England has observed British Summer Time (Daylight Saving Time) for many years. This means that in the spring, clocks are moved one hour forward, so that the whole country is on GMT+1hr. In the autumn this process is reversed, returning the time to GMT.
In 2009, British Summer Time starts on Sunday, 29th March and ends on Sunday, 25th October.
If it is 8 am (breakfast time) in London then it is …
| 8 am | in Reykjavik (Iceland), Dublin (Ireland), Lisbon (Portugal), Casablanca (Morocco), the Canary Islands and Madeira | | 9 am | in Paris (France), Madrid (Spain), Rome (Italy), Stockholm (Sweden), Vienna (Austria), Berlin (Germany), Budapest (Hungary), Bratislava (Slovakia), Warsaw (Poland), West Central Africa
| | 10 am | in Athens (Greece), Istanbul (Turkey), Beirut (Palestine), Cairo (Egypt), Pretoria (South Africa), Helsinki (Finland), Jerusalem (Israel), Kiev (Ukraine) | | 11 am | in Moscow (Russia), Baghdad (Iraq), Kuwait, Nairobi (Kenya), Tbilisi (Georgia), Tehran (Iran) | | 12 am | in Yerevan (Armenia), Kabul (Afghanistan), Abu Dhabi | | 1 pm | in Karachi (Pakistan), Tashkent (Uzbekistan), New Delhi (India) | | 2 pm | in Almaty (Kazakstan), Dhaka (Bangladesh) | | 3 pm | in Bangkok (Thailand), Hanoi (Vietnam) | | 4 pm | in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Ulaan Bataar (Mongolia, Hong Kong, Beijing (China) | | 5 pm | in Seoul (Korea), Tokyo (Japan) | | 6 pm | in Sydney (Australia) | | 7 pm | in Magadan (Russia) | | 8 pm | in Auckland (New Zealand), Fiji | | 9 pm | in Samoa | | 10 pm | in Hawaii | | 11 pm | in Alaska | | 12 pm | in Los Angeles, Tijuana | | 1 am | in Arizona | | 2 am | in Mexico City, Central America | | 3 am | in Lima (Peru), Bogota (Columbia), New York (USA), Ottawa (Canada) | | 4 am | in Santiago (Chile), La Paz (Bolivia), Manaus | | 5 am | in Newfoundland (Canada), Brasilia (Brasil), Buenos Aires (Argentina, Montevideo (Uruguay), Greenland | | 6 am | over the western Atlantic ocean | | 7 am | in Azores, Cap Verde Islands |
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