Current time in Gelsenkirchen, Germany right now

It is 6:46 am in Gelsenkirchen, Germany 🇩🇪 right now, on Saturday, November 7, 2026. The city keeps Europe/Berlin, which is CET at UTC+1, so Gelsenkirchen is 1 hour ahead of UTC, where it is 5:46 am. The sun rose in Gelsenkirchen at 7:36 am and sets at 4:54 pm, which is 9 hours 19 minutes of daylight.

What time is it in Gelsenkirchen right now?

The time in Gelsenkirchen, Germany is 6:46 am, 06:46 on a 24 hour clock, on Saturday November 7, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Europe/Berlin rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.

Gelsenkirchen sits at 51.51 degrees north and 7.10 degrees east, well into the temperate belt and 5,727 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 15.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 7.9 degrees west of that line. Those 7.9 degrees are worth 31 minutes 37 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:15 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.

Gelsenkirchen time zone and UTC offset

The IANA zone for Gelsenkirchen, Germany is Europe/Berlin. Right now it is running at UTC+1 and the abbreviation in force is CET. Gelsenkirchen is on standard time at the moment, at UTC+1. It moves to UTC+2 for part of the year.

Daylight hours in Gelsenkirchen today

The sun rose in Gelsenkirchen at 7:36 am and sets at 4:54 pm, which is 9 hours 19 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Gelsenkirchen, is at 12:15 pm, which is 15 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -16.35 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 22.1 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.

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 Gelsenkirchen, which works from the same coordinates.

Where Gelsenkirchen 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.

Time difference between Gelsenkirchen 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 Gelsenkirchen.

Best time to call Gelsenkirchen

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.

Other cities in Germany

We cover 101 cities in Germany. These are the ones nearest to Gelsenkirchen, with the time on their clocks right now.

Cities on Europe/Berlin time

101 of our cities keep Europe/Berlin, so every one of them reads 6:46 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Gelsenkirchen. Nearest first:

Moon phase over Gelsenkirchen tonight

The moon is a waning crescent tonight, 27.6 days into its cycle and about 4% lit. The next full moon falls on November 24, 2026 at 3:53 pm Berlin time, and the next new moon on November 9, 2026 at 8:01 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Gelsenkirchen clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.

When the clocks change in Gelsenkirchen

The next change is on Sunday, March 28, 2027, 141 days from now, when the clocks in Gelsenkirchen go forward 1 hour at 1:59 am and the offset moves from UTC+1 to UTC+2.

Two things follow from that. Any standing call with Gelsenkirchen 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 Gelsenkirchen is from other cities

Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Gelsenkirchen is Essen, Germany at 8 km, and the furthest is Dunedin, New Zealand at 18,650 km, which is 93% of the way to being exactly opposite.

The antipode of Gelsenkirchen

Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Gelsenkirchen, Germany and you come out at 51.51 degrees south, 172.90 degrees west. That point is in the South Pacific Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Dunedin, New Zealand, 1,365 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 6:46 pm on Saturday.

The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 51.51 degrees north becomes 51.51 degrees south, and 7.10 degrees east becomes 172.90 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Gelsenkirchen is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-11, roughly twelve hours from Gelsenkirchen, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.

Sunrise and sunset in Gelsenkirchen

Today the sun rises in Gelsenkirchen at 7:36 am and sets at 4:54 pm, giving 9 hours 19 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 Gelsenkirchen.

Sun and moon in Gelsenkirchen today

The sun is up in Gelsenkirchen for 9 hours 19 minutes today, from 7:36 am to 4:54 pm. The moon rises in Gelsenkirchen at 5:37 am and sets at 3:40 pm. The next phase is the new moon on November 9, 2026. It is 4% lit at the moment, a waning crescent, thinning by about 3.9 percentage points a day.

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.

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.

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.

Prayer times in Gelsenkirchen

Seven days from November 7, 2026, computed for Gelsenkirchen, Germany at 51.51 degrees north, 7.10 degrees east, on the clock of Europe/Berlin. 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.

Dhuhr is solar noon at Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 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 Gelsenkirchen

From Gelsenkirchen, Germany the qibla is 127.5 degrees on a true compass, which is southeast, or 37.5 degrees south of due east. The Kaaba is 4,375 km away, 2,719 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Gelsenkirchen, Germany 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 Gelsenkirchen, Germany 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.

Gelsenkirchen time now: common questions

What time is it in Gelsenkirchen, Germany right now?

6:46 am on Saturday November 7, 2026. Gelsenkirchen runs on CET, UTC+1.

What time zone is Gelsenkirchen in?

Europe/Berlin, currently CET at UTC+1. 101 of the cities on this site keep that zone.

What is the UTC offset for Gelsenkirchen?

UTC+1 at this instant. It alternates between UTC+1 and UTC+2 across the year.

Does Gelsenkirchen observe daylight saving time?

Yes. The next change is March 28, 2027, when the clocks go forward.

How many hours ahead or behind is Gelsenkirchen of New York?

Gelsenkirchen is 6 hours ahead of New York, where it is 12:46 am right now.

What time does the sun set in Gelsenkirchen today?

4:54 pm, after a sunrise at 7:36 am and 9 hours 19 minutes of daylight.

What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Gelsenkirchen?

51.51 degrees south, 172.90 degrees west, in the South Pacific Ocean.

When is the best time to call Gelsenkirchen from London?

Between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm in Gelsenkirchen, which is 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in London.

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