Time in United Kingdom now
SundayMay 32026
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Time zone info for United Kingdom
UTC +1
British Summer Time (BST)
now 6 hours ahead of Minneapolis
now 6 hours ahead of Minneapolis
- From 25 October 2026: UTC +0 / Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
- The time in United Kingdom is normally 6 hours ahead of the time in Minneapolis but because these time zones don't share the same start and end times for daylight saving timethe time in United Kingdom can for a short while be 5 hours ahead of the time in Minneapolis.
- The IANA time zone identifier for United Kingdom is Europe/London.
Sunday March 29 2026
Latest change: Summer time started
- Switched to UTC +1 / British Summer Time (BST).
- The time was set forward one hour from 01:00AM to 02:00AM local time.
Sunday October 25 2026
Next change: Winter time starts
- Switching to UTC +0 / Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
- The time will be set back one hour from 02:00AM to 01:00AM local time.
Time difference
from United Kingdom
| Los Angeles | −8 hours | −8 hours |
| Chicago | −6 hours | −6 hours |
| New York | −5 hours | −5 hours |
| Toronto | −5 hours | −5 hours |
| São Paulo | −4 hours | −4 hours |
| UTC | −1 hours | −1 hours |
| Lagos | 0 | |
| London | 0 | |
| Johannesburg | +1 hours | |
| Paris | +1 hours | |
| Zurich | +1 hours | |
| Cairo | +2 hours | |
| Istanbul | +2 hours | |
| Moscow | +2 hours | |
| Dubai | +3 hours | |
| Mumbai | +4.5 hours | |
| Hong Kong | +7 hours | |
| Shanghai | +7 hours | |
| Singapore | +7 hours | |
| Tokyo | +8 hours | |
| Sydney | +9 hours |
United Kingdom on the map
- Continent: Europe
- Area: 244,820 km²
- Capital: London
- Currency: Pound (GBP)
- Calling code: +44
- Internet top level domain: .uk
- Latitude: 54.76. Longitude: -2.70
- Population: 66,489,000
Annual average temperatures
for United Kingdom 1884-2021
Each of the stripes represents one year.
Graphics by Ed Hawkinsusing data from UK Met Office.
See showyourstripes.info.
Graphics by Ed Hawkinsusing data from UK Met Office.
See showyourstripes.info.
50 places in
United Kingdom
Aberdeen Belfast Bexley Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Cardiff Coventry Derby Dudley Dundee Edinburgh Glasgow Huddersfield Ipswich Islington Kingston upon Hull Leeds Leicester Liverpool London Luton Manchester Middlesbrough Milton Keynes Newcastle upon Tyne Northampton Norwich Nottingham Oxford Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Sheffield Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland Sutton Swansea Swindon Walsall Wolverhampton York
