Current time in Bender, Moldova right now
It is 7:07 pm in Bender, Moldova 🇲🇩 right now, on Thursday, November 5, 2026. The city keeps Europe/Chisinau, which is EET at UTC+2, so Bender is 2 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 5:07 pm. The sun rose in Bender at 6:50 am and sets at 4:41 pm, which is 9 hours 51 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Bender right now?
The time in Bender, Moldova is 7:07 pm, 19:07 on a 24 hour clock, on Thursday November 5, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Europe/Chisinau rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Bender sits at 46.83 degrees north and 29.48 degrees east, well into the temperate belt and 5,207 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 30.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 0.5 degrees west of that line. Those 0.5 degrees are worth 2 minutes 6 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 11:46 am rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Bender time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Bender, Moldova is Europe/Chisinau. Right now it is running at UTC+2 and the abbreviation in force is EET. Bender is on standard time at the moment, at UTC+2. It moves to UTC+3 for part of the year.
Daylight hours in Bender today
The sun rose in Bender at 6:50 am and sets at 4:41 pm, which is 9 hours 51 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Bender, is at 11:46 am, which is 14 minutes before clock noon. The sun's declination today is -15.74 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 27.4 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Bender |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 6:50 am |
| Sunset | 4:41 pm |
| Solar noon | 11:46 am |
| Day length | 9 hours 51 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 3:56 pm to 5:00 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 5:13 pm |
The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Bender, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Bender is on the map
The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.
An interactive map of Bender. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Bender on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Bender and major cities
Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Bender.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Bender |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 9:07 am | -10 | 10 hours behind of Bender |
| Chicago, Illinois | 11:07 am | -8 | 8 hours behind of Bender |
| New York, New York | 12:07 pm | -7 | 7 hours behind of Bender |
| Toronto, Canada | 12:07 pm | -7 | 7 hours behind of Bender |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 2:07 pm | -5 | 5 hours behind of Bender |
| London, United Kingdom | 5:07 pm | -2 | 2 hours behind of Bender |
| Paris, France | 6:07 pm | -1 | 1 hour behind of Bender |
| Berlin, Germany | 6:07 pm | -1 | 1 hour behind of Bender |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 7:07 pm | 0 | same time as Bender |
| Moscow, Russia | 8:07 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Bender |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 9:07 pm | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Bender |
| Delhi, India | 10:37 pm | +3:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes ahead of Bender |
| Singapore, Singapore | 1:07 am | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Bender |
| Hong Kong, China | 1:07 am | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Bender |
| Tokyo, Japan | 2:07 am | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Bender |
| Sydney, Australia | 4:07 am | +9 | 9 hours ahead of Bender |
Best time to call Bender
Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Bender | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | -7 | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 11:00 am |
| Los Angeles | -10 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| London | -2 | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm |
| Delhi | +3:30 | 9:00 am to 2:30 pm | 12:30 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Sydney | +9 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
Other cities in Moldova
We cover 4 cities in Moldova. These are the ones nearest to Bender, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tiraspol | Transnistria | 7:07 pm | UTC+2 |
| Chisinau | Chisinau Municipality | 7:07 pm | UTC+2 |
| Balti | Balti | 7:07 pm | UTC+2 |
Cities on Europe/Chisinau time
4 of our cities keep Europe/Chisinau, so every one of them reads 7:07 pm at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Bender. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Bender |
|---|---|---|
| Tiraspol, Moldova | 7:07 pm | 12 km |
| Chisinau, Moldova | 7:07 pm | 51 km |
| Balti, Moldova | 7:07 pm | 156 km |
Moon phase over Bender tonight
The moon is a waning crescent tonight, 26.1 days into its cycle and about 13% lit. The next full moon falls on November 24, 2026 at 4:53 pm Chisinau time, and the next new moon on November 9, 2026 at 9:01 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Bender clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Bender
The next change is on Sunday, March 28, 2027, 142 days from now, when the clocks in Bender go forward 1 hour at 1:59 am and the offset moves from UTC+2 to UTC+3.
Two things follow from that. Any standing call with Bender shifts by an hour on that date unless the other side moves the same weekend, and every offset printed on this page is the offset for today rather than a fixed property of the city.
How far Bender is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Bender is Tiraspol, Moldova at 12 km, and the furthest is Lower Hutt, New Zealand at 17,206 km, which is 86% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiraspol, Moldova | 12 | 7 | east | 7:07 pm |
| Chisinau, Moldova | 51 | 32 | north west | 7:07 pm |
| Odesa, Ukraine | 104 | 65 | east | 7:07 pm |
| Cheremushky, Ukraine | 104 | 65 | south east | 7:07 pm |
| Iasi, Romania | 147 | 91 | west | 7:07 pm |
| Balti, Moldova | 156 | 97 | north west | 7:07 pm |
| Galati, Romania | 190 | 118 | south west | 7:07 pm |
| Mykolayiv, Ukraine | 192 | 119 | east | 7:07 pm |
| Bacau, Romania | 198 | 123 | west | 7:07 pm |
| Braila, Romania | 209 | 130 | south west | 7:07 pm |
The antipode of Bender
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Bender, Moldova and you come out at 46.83 degrees south, 150.52 degrees west. That point is in the South Pacific Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Lower Hutt, New Zealand, 2,809 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 6:07 am on Friday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 46.83 degrees north becomes 46.83 degrees south, and 29.48 degrees east becomes 150.52 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Bender is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-10, roughly twelve hours from Bender, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Bender
Today the sun rises in Bender at 6:50 am and sets at 4:41 pm, giving 9 hours 51 minutes of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Bender.
Sun and moon in Bender today
The sun is up in Bender for 9 hours 51 minutes today, from 6:50 am to 4:41 pm. The moon rises in Bender at 2:29 am and sets at 2:46 pm. The next phase is the new moon on November 9, 2026. It is 15% lit at the moment, a waning crescent, thinning by about 7.6 percentage points a day.
| Sun | Time in Bender |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:06 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:42 am |
| Civil dawn | 6:18 am |
| Sunrise | 6:50 am |
| Solar noon | 11:46 am |
| Sunset | 4:41 pm |
| Civil dusk | 5:13 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 5:49 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 6:24 pm |
Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.
| Light band | Time in Bender | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 6:18 am to 6:30 am | 0h 12m |
| Morning golden hour | 6:30 am to 7:35 am | 1h 04m |
| Evening golden hour | 3:56 pm to 5:00 pm | 1h 04m |
| Evening blue hour | 5:00 pm to 5:13 pm | 0h 12m |
Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.
| Moon | Reading in Bender |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 2:29 am |
| Moonset | 2:46 pm |
| Phase | waning crescent, waning |
| Illumination | 15% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 25.8 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 385,000 km |
Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.
Meeting planner: Bender and four other places
Every hour of Thursday, November 5, 2026 in Bender, Moldova, read across 4 other places. Columns are Bender local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
Change the places or the date
| Bender local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BenderEET UTC+2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPST UTC-8 | 14-1 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| New YorkEST UTC-5 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| LondonGMT UTC+0 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 3:30 | 4:30 | 5:30 | 6:30 | 7:30 | 8:30 | 9:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 | 21:30 | 22:30 | 23:30 | 0:30+1 | 1:30+1 | 2:30+1 |
No hour on Thursday, November 5, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Los Angeles and Delhi are 13 hours 30 minutes apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 11:00 am in Bender it is working hours in Bender, London and Delhi, but outside them in Los Angeles and New York. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Bender
Seven days from November 5, 2026, computed for Bender, Moldova at 46.83 degrees north, 29.48 degrees east, on the clock of Europe/Chisinau. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday November 5 | 5:06 am | 6:50 am | 11:46 am | 2:16 pm | 4:41 pm | 6:18 pm |
| Friday November 6 | 5:08 am | 6:51 am | 11:46 am | 2:15 pm | 4:39 pm | 6:17 pm |
| Saturday November 7 | 5:09 am | 6:53 am | 11:46 am | 2:14 pm | 4:38 pm | 6:16 pm |
| Sunday November 8 | 5:10 am | 6:54 am | 11:46 am | 2:13 pm | 4:37 pm | 6:15 pm |
| Monday November 9 | 5:11 am | 6:56 am | 11:46 am | 2:12 pm | 4:35 pm | 6:14 pm |
| Tuesday November 10 | 5:13 am | 6:57 am | 11:46 am | 2:11 pm | 4:34 pm | 6:13 pm |
| Wednesday November 11 | 5:14 am | 6:59 am | 11:46 am | 2:10 pm | 4:33 pm | 6:12 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Bender, Moldova, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.
Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.
Qibla direction from Bender
From Bender, Moldova the qibla is 158.2 degrees on a true compass, which is south-southeast, or 21.8 degrees west of due south. The Kaaba is 2,976 km away, 1,849 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Bender, Moldova to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.
The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Bender, Moldova before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.
Put a Bender clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Bender, Moldova, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Europe/Chisinau from the time zone database, so it stays right when Bender changes its clocks, and it shows EET to every visitor wherever they are reading from. It is a plain iframe: no account, no script to install, nothing to pay.
The box needs 183 pixels of height for these settings, which is what the code above sets, and the numbers show at full size from 305 pixels of width up. Narrower than that they scale down rather than wrapping, and turning a line off makes the box shorter. The code updates with either.
Bender time now: common questions
- What time is it in Bender, Moldova right now?
- 7:07 pm on Thursday November 5, 2026. Bender runs on EET, UTC+2.
- What time zone is Bender in?
- Europe/Chisinau, currently EET at UTC+2. 4 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Bender?
- UTC+2 at this instant. It alternates between UTC+2 and UTC+3 across the year.
- Does Bender observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. The next change is March 28, 2027, when the clocks go forward.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Bender of New York?
- Bender is 7 hours ahead of New York, where it is 12:07 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Bender today?
- 4:41 pm, after a sunrise at 6:50 am and 9 hours 51 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Bender?
- 46.83 degrees south, 150.52 degrees west, in the South Pacific Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Bender from London?
- Between 11:00 am and 6:00 pm in Bender, which is 9:00 am to 4:00 pm in London.
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