AnkaraTurkey
Current time in Ankara, Turkey
Thursday, 24 September 2026
Türkiye Standard TimeUTC+03:00
⛶ Full-screen clockAnkara time at a glance
- Country
- Turkey
- Location
- Capital city of Turkey
- Time zone
Europe/Istanbul- UTC offset now
UTC+03:00- Current zone label
- GMT+3
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Ankara time guide
Does Ankara change its clocks?
UTC+03:00.- Year-round offset
- Turkey Time (TRT), UTC+03:00
- Time-zone identifier
- Europe/Istanbul
- Ankara and London
- 3 hours ahead during GMT; 2 hours ahead during BST
- Ankara and New York
- 8 hours ahead during EST; 7 hours ahead during EDT
Province, metropolitan municipality and urban core
Official Ankara totals cover the province
TurkStat recorded 5,910,320 residents in Ankara province at the end of 2025. The metropolitan municipality shares the province-wide boundary, which is much broader than the central built-up districts.
Time-zone identity for Ankara
- IANA zone
Europe/Istanbul- UTC offset now
- UTC+03:00
- Current zone label
- GMT+3
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Ankara is currently 3 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Ankara
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Wednesday, 29 September 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Ankara
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Europe/Istanbul, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the previous 5 years.
Next 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the next 5 years.
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 Ankara, capital of Turkey
Ankara is the capital of Turkey. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Turkey
- Administrative area
- Turkey
- Population
- 3,517,182
- Coordinates
- 39.9199° N, 32.8543° E. The elevation is 850 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Ankara
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Ankara. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- ÇankayaAnkara, Turkey0.7 km east
Europe/IstanbulSame local time - İncirliAnkara, Turkey7.2 km north
Europe/IstanbulSame local time - EtlikAnkara, Turkey7.4 km north
Europe/IstanbulSame local time - BatikentAnkara, Turkey12 km northwest
Europe/IstanbulSame local time - GölbaşıAnkara, Turkey15 km south
Europe/IstanbulSame local time - AkyurtAnkara, Turkey31 km northeast
Europe/IstanbulSame local time
Sources for Ankara 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 cities15000GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · AccessedCity and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
- IANA Time Zone DatabaseInternet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · AccessedTime-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
- Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · AccessedEnglish display names for countries, currencies and languages.
- Address Based Population Registration System Results 2025Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) · 2025-12-31 · AccessedOfficial province population and national registration results.