Skip to main content
UTC Time Now

UTC Time Now

Where would you like to go?

Search the world clock or open a time tool.

Menu
Flag of Denmark

CopenhagenDenmark

Current time in Copenhagen, Denmark

Thursday, 24 September 2026

Central European Summer TimeUTC+02:00

⛶ Full-screen clock

Copenhagen time at a glance

Country
Denmark
Location
Capital city of Denmark
Time zone
Europe/Copenhagen
UTC offset now
UTC+02:00
Current zone label
CEST
Next clock change
25 October 2026 at 02:00 CET

Plan from this city

What do you want to do with Copenhagen time?

Move directly from the current answer into the next task without re-entering the city or time zone.

Copenhagen time guide

Does Copenhagen change its clocks?

Yes. Copenhagen uses UTC+01:00 standard time and UTC+02:00 daylight time under the European seasonal-clock schedule. The current calculated offset is UTC+02:00.
Standard time
Central European Time (CET), UTC+01:00
Daylight time
Central European Summer Time (CEST), UTC+02:00
Time-zone identifier
Europe/Copenhagen
Copenhagen and London
Normally 1 hour ahead throughout the year

Municipality, urban area and capital region

Copenhagen has several commonly used boundaries

Statistics Denmark publishes population separately by municipality and by urban area from the Civil Registration System. Copenhagen Municipality, the continuous urban area and the larger Capital Region are distinct geographies and produce different totals.

Time-zone identity for Copenhagen

IANA zone
Europe/Copenhagen
UTC offset now
UTC+02:00
Current zone label
CEST
Clock-change status
An offset change was found in the next 370 days.

Copenhagen is currently 2 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.

Next clock change in Copenhagen

UTC+01:00UTC+01:00

This change comes from the IANA Time Zone Database. It is described as an offset change unless its daylight-saving purpose can be verified.

Time-zone history

UTC offset changes for Copenhagen

A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Europe/Copenhagen, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.

Previous 5 years

  1. UTC+02:00 UTC+02:00UTC offset decreased by
  2. UTC+01:00 UTC+01:00UTC offset decreased by
  3. UTC+02:00 UTC+02:00UTC offset decreased by
  4. UTC+01:00 UTC+01:00UTC offset decreased by
  5. UTC+02:00 UTC+02:00UTC offset decreased by
  6. UTC+01:00 UTC+01:00UTC offset decreased by
  7. UTC+02:00 UTC+02:00UTC offset decreased by
  8. UTC+01:00 UTC+01:00UTC offset decreased by
  9. UTC+02:00 UTC+02:00UTC offset decreased by
  10. UTC+01:00 UTC+01:00UTC offset decreased by

Next 5 years

  1. UTC+01:00 UTC+01:00UTC offset decreased by
  2. UTC+02:00 UTC+02:00UTC offset decreased by
  3. UTC+01:00 UTC+01:00UTC offset decreased by
  4. UTC+02:00 UTC+02:00UTC offset decreased by
  5. UTC+01:00 UTC+01:00UTC offset decreased by
  6. UTC+02:00 UTC+02:00UTC offset decreased by
  7. UTC+01:00 UTC+01:00UTC offset decreased by
  8. UTC+02:00 UTC+02:00UTC offset decreased by
  9. UTC+01:00 UTC+01:00UTC offset decreased by
  10. UTC+02:00 UTC+02:00UTC offset decreased by

Dates are calculated from IANA time-zone rules. The calculation checks for offset changes throughout the displayed period and resolves each change to the nearest second.

Capital city context

About Copenhagen, capital of Denmark

Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.

Capital status
Capital of Denmark
Administrative area
Capital Region, Denmark
Population
1,153,615
Coordinates
55.6759° N, 12.5655° E. The elevation is 14 metres.

Nearby city clocks

Cities near Copenhagen

Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Copenhagen. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.

Sources for Copenhagen time and city facts

Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.

View 4 sources
  • GeoNames cities15000
    GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · Accessed
    City and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
  • IANA Time Zone Database
    Internet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · Accessed
    Time-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
  • Unicode Common Locale Data Repository
    Unicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · Accessed
    English display names for countries, currencies and languages.
  • Population figures
    Statistics Denmark · Updated monthly · Accessed
    Official municipal and urban-area population datasets covering Copenhagen.
Current Time in Copenhagen — CET/CEST, Date and Time Difference | UTC Time Now