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Time in Rotterdam, Netherlands now

01:57:17AM

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Republic Day (Turkey) / World Stroke Day

Rotterdam switched to standard time at 03:00AM on Sunday, October 26. The time was set one hour back.
Sun: ↑ 07:30AM ↓ 05:21PM (9h 51m) - More info - Make Rotterdam time default - Add to favorite locations

Time zone info for Rotterdam

UTC +1

Central European Time (CET)
now 5 hours ahead of New York

From 29 March 2026: UTC +2 / Central European Summer Time (CEST)
The time in Rotterdam is normally 6 hours ahead of the time in New York, but because these time zones don't share the same start and end times for daylight saving time, the time in Rotterdam can for a short while be 5 hours ahead of the time in New York.
The IANA time zone identifier for Rotterdam is Europe/Amsterdam.

Sunday October 26 2025

Latest change: Winter time started

Switched to UTC +1 / Central European Time (CET).
The time was set back one hour from 03:00AM to 02:00AM local time.

Sunday March 29 2026

Next change: Summer time starts

Switching to UTC +2 / Central European Summer Time (CEST).
The time will be set forward one hour from 02:00AM to 03:00AM local time.

Time difference
from Rotterdam

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
London	−1 hours	−1 hours
UTC	−1 hours	−1 hours
Lagos	0
Paris	0
Zurich	0
Johannesburg	+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	+10 hours

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Sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time for Rotterdam

Sunrise: 07:30AM
Sunset: 05:21PM
Day length: 9h 51m
Solar noon: 12:26PM
The current local time in Rotterdam is 26 minutes ahead of apparent solar time.

Rotterdam on the map

Location: Netherlands
Latitude: 51.92. Longitude: 4.48
Population: 664,000

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