Current time in Limerick, Ireland right now
It is 11:56 am in Limerick, Ireland 🇮🇪 right now, on Thursday, November 5, 2026. The city keeps Europe/Dublin, which is GMT at UTC+0, so Limerick is on UTC itself, where it is 11:56 am. The sun rose in Limerick at 7:38 am and sets at 4:57 pm, which is 9 hours 18 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Limerick right now?
The time in Limerick, Ireland is 11:56 am, 11:56 on a 24 hour clock, on Thursday November 5, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Europe/Dublin rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Limerick sits at 52.66 degrees north and 8.62 degrees west, high in the temperate belt and 5,856 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 0.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 8.6 degrees west of that line. Those 8.6 degrees are worth 34 minutes 30 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:18 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Limerick time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Limerick, Ireland is Europe/Dublin. Right now it is running at UTC+0 and the abbreviation in force is GMT. Limerick is on standard time at the moment, at UTC+0. It moves to UTC+1 for part of the year.
Daylight hours in Limerick today
The sun rose in Limerick at 7:38 am and sets at 4:57 pm, which is 9 hours 18 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Limerick, is at 12:18 pm, which is 18 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -15.77 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 21.6 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Limerick |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 7:38 am |
| Sunset | 4:57 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:18 pm |
| Day length | 9 hours 18 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 4:04 pm to 5:20 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 5:34 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 Limerick, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Limerick 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 Limerick. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Limerick on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Limerick 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 Limerick.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Limerick |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 3:56 am | -8 | 8 hours behind of Limerick |
| Chicago, Illinois | 5:56 am | -6 | 6 hours behind of Limerick |
| New York, New York | 6:56 am | -5 | 5 hours behind of Limerick |
| Toronto, Canada | 6:56 am | -5 | 5 hours behind of Limerick |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 8:56 am | -3 | 3 hours behind of Limerick |
| London, United Kingdom | 11:56 am | 0 | same time as Limerick |
| Paris, France | 12:56 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Limerick |
| Berlin, Germany | 12:56 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Limerick |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 1:56 pm | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Limerick |
| Moscow, Russia | 2:56 pm | +3 | 3 hours ahead of Limerick |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 3:56 pm | +4 | 4 hours ahead of Limerick |
| Delhi, India | 5:26 pm | +5:30 | 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of Limerick |
| Singapore, Singapore | 7:56 pm | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Limerick |
| Hong Kong, China | 7:56 pm | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Limerick |
| Tokyo, Japan | 8:56 pm | +9 | 9 hours ahead of Limerick |
| Sydney, Australia | 10:56 pm | +11 | 11 hours ahead of Limerick |
Best time to call Limerick
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 Limerick | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | -5 | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm |
| Los Angeles | -8 | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 10:00 am |
| London | 0 | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm |
| Delhi | +5:30 | 9:00 am to 12:30 pm | 2:30 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Sydney | +11 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
Other cities in Ireland
We cover 4 cities in Ireland. These are the ones nearest to Limerick, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cork | Munster | 11:56 am | UTC+0 |
| South Dublin | Leinster | 11:56 am | UTC+0 |
| Dublin | Leinster | 11:56 am | UTC+0 |
Cities on Europe/Dublin time
4 of our cities keep Europe/Dublin, so every one of them reads 11:56 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Limerick. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Limerick |
|---|---|---|
| Cork, Ireland | 11:56 am | 86 km |
| South Dublin, Ireland | 11:56 am | 168 km |
| Dublin, Ireland | 11:56 am | 175 km |
Moon phase over Limerick tonight
The moon is a waning crescent tonight, 25.8 days into its cycle and about 15% lit. The next full moon falls on November 24, 2026 at 2:53 pm Dublin time, and the next new moon on November 9, 2026 at 7:01 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Limerick clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Limerick
The next change is on Sunday, March 28, 2027, 143 days from now, when the clocks in Limerick go forward 1 hour at 12:59 am and the offset moves from UTC+0 to UTC+1.
Two things follow from that. Any standing call with Limerick 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 Limerick is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Limerick is Cork, Ireland at 86 km, and the furthest is Dunedin, New Zealand at 19,257 km, which is 96% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cork, Ireland | 86 | 53 | south | 11:56 am |
| South Dublin, Ireland | 168 | 104 | north east | 11:56 am |
| Dublin, Ireland | 175 | 109 | north east | 11:56 am |
| Belfast, United Kingdom | 279 | 173 | north east | 11:56 am |
| Swansea, United Kingdom | 340 | 211 | east | 11:56 am |
| Birkenhead, United Kingdom | 384 | 238 | east | 11:56 am |
| Liverpool, United Kingdom | 385 | 239 | east | 11:56 am |
| Blackpool, United Kingdom | 392 | 244 | east | 11:56 am |
| Cardiff, United Kingdom | 395 | 245 | east | 11:56 am |
| Plymouth, United Kingdom | 401 | 249 | south east | 11:56 am |
The antipode of Limerick
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Limerick, Ireland and you come out at 52.66 degrees south, 171.38 degrees east. That point is near Dunedin, New Zealand. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Dunedin, New Zealand, 758 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 12:56 am on Friday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 52.66 degrees north becomes 52.66 degrees south, and 8.62 degrees west becomes 171.38 degrees east. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Limerick is one of the exceptions, with dry land on the far side. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC+12, roughly twelve hours from Limerick, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Limerick
Today the sun rises in Limerick at 7:38 am and sets at 4:57 pm, giving 9 hours 18 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 Limerick.
Sun and moon in Limerick today
The sun is up in Limerick for 9 hours 18 minutes today, from 7:38 am to 4:57 pm. The moon rises in Limerick at 3:09 am and sets at 3:17 pm. The next phase is the new moon on November 9, 2026. It is 14% lit at the moment, a waning crescent, thinning by about 7.5 percentage points a day.
| Sun | Time in Limerick |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:41 am |
| Nautical dawn | 6:21 am |
| Civil dawn | 7:02 am |
| Sunrise | 7:38 am |
| Solar noon | 12:18 pm |
| Sunset | 4:57 pm |
| Civil dusk | 5:34 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 6:14 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 6:54 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 Limerick | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 7:02 am to 7:16 am | 0h 14m |
| Morning golden hour | 7:16 am to 8:31 am | 1h 15m |
| Evening golden hour | 4:04 pm to 5:20 pm | 1h 15m |
| Evening blue hour | 5:20 pm to 5:34 pm | 0h 14m |
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 Limerick |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 3:09 am |
| Moonset | 3:17 pm |
| Phase | waning crescent, waning |
| Illumination | 14% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 25.8 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 385,300 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: Limerick and four other places
Every hour of Thursday, November 5, 2026 in Limerick, Ireland, read across 4 other places. Columns are Limerick 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
| Limerick 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LimerickGMT UTC+0 | 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 | 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 | 14 | 15 |
| New YorkEST UTC-5 | 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 | 17 | 18 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 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 | 3:30+1 | 4:30+1 |
| SingaporeSGT UTC+8 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 0+1 | 1+1 | 2+1 | 3+1 | 4+1 | 5+1 | 6+1 | 7+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 Singapore are 16 hours apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 2 of 5: from 4:00 am in Limerick it is working hours in Delhi and Singapore, but outside them in Limerick, Los Angeles and New York. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Limerick
Seven days from November 5, 2026, computed for Limerick, Ireland at 52.66 degrees north, 8.62 degrees west, on the clock of Europe/Dublin. 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 | 5:41 am | 7:38 am | 12:18 pm | 2:31 pm | 4:57 pm | 6:48 pm |
| Friday November 6 | 5:43 am | 7:40 am | 12:18 pm | 2:29 pm | 4:55 pm | 6:46 pm |
| Saturday November 7 | 5:44 am | 7:42 am | 12:18 pm | 2:28 pm | 4:53 pm | 6:45 pm |
| Sunday November 8 | 5:46 am | 7:44 am | 12:18 pm | 2:26 pm | 4:52 pm | 6:43 pm |
| Monday November 9 | 5:47 am | 7:46 am | 12:18 pm | 2:25 pm | 4:50 pm | 6:42 pm |
| Tuesday November 10 | 5:49 am | 7:48 am | 12:18 pm | 2:24 pm | 4:48 pm | 6:41 pm |
| Wednesday November 11 | 5:50 am | 7:50 am | 12:18 pm | 2:23 pm | 4:47 pm | 6:39 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Limerick, Ireland, 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 Limerick
From Limerick, Ireland the qibla is 111.1 degrees on a true compass, which is east-southeast, or 21.1 degrees south of due east. The Kaaba is 5,374 km away, 3,339 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Limerick, Ireland 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 Limerick, Ireland 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 Limerick clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Limerick, Ireland, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Europe/Dublin from the time zone database, so it stays right when Limerick changes its clocks, and it shows GMT 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.
Limerick time now: common questions
- What time is it in Limerick, Ireland right now?
- 11:56 am on Thursday November 5, 2026. Limerick runs on GMT, UTC+0.
- What time zone is Limerick in?
- Europe/Dublin, currently GMT at UTC+0. 4 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Limerick?
- UTC+0 at this instant. It alternates between UTC+0 and UTC+1 across the year.
- Does Limerick observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. The next change is March 28, 2027, when the clocks go forward.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Limerick of New York?
- Limerick is 5 hours ahead of New York, where it is 6:56 am right now.
- What time does the sun set in Limerick today?
- 4:57 pm, after a sunrise at 7:38 am and 9 hours 18 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Limerick?
- 52.66 degrees south, 171.38 degrees east, near Dunedin, New Zealand.
- When is the best time to call Limerick from London?
- Between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm in Limerick, which is 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in London.
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