Current time in Rovaniemi, Finland right now

It is 12:50 pm in Rovaniemi, Finland 🇫🇮 right now, on Thursday, November 5, 2026. The city keeps Europe/Helsinki, which is EET at UTC+2, so Rovaniemi is 2 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 10:50 am. The sun rose in Rovaniemi at 8:31 am and sets at 3:30 pm, which is 6 hours 59 minutes of daylight.

What time is it in Rovaniemi right now?

The time in Rovaniemi, Finland is 12:50 pm, 12:50 on a 24 hour clock, on Thursday November 5, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Europe/Helsinki rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.

Rovaniemi sits at 66.50 degrees north and 25.73 degrees east, just short of the Arctic Circle and 7,395 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 30.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 4.3 degrees west of that line. Those 4.3 degrees are worth 17 minutes 5 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:01 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.

Rovaniemi time zone and UTC offset

The IANA zone for Rovaniemi, Finland is Europe/Helsinki. Right now it is running at UTC+2 and the abbreviation in force is EET. Rovaniemi is on standard time at the moment, at UTC+2. It moves to UTC+3 for part of the year.

Daylight hours in Rovaniemi today

The sun rose in Rovaniemi at 8:31 am and sets at 3:30 pm, which is 6 hours 59 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Rovaniemi, is at 12:01 pm, which is 1 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -15.74 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 7.8 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 Rovaniemi, which works from the same coordinates.

Where Rovaniemi 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 Rovaniemi 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 Rovaniemi.

Best time to call Rovaniemi

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 Finland

We cover 11 cities in Finland. These are the ones nearest to Rovaniemi, with the time on their clocks right now.

Cities on Europe/Helsinki time

11 of our cities keep Europe/Helsinki, so every one of them reads 12:50 pm at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Rovaniemi. Nearest first:

Moon phase over Rovaniemi 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 4:53 pm Helsinki 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 Rovaniemi clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.

When the clocks change in Rovaniemi

The next change is on Sunday, March 28, 2027, 143 days from now, when the clocks in Rovaniemi go forward 1 hour at 2:59 am and the offset moves from UTC+2 to UTC+3.

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

Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Rovaniemi is Oulu, Finland at 166 km, and the furthest is Dunedin, New Zealand at 16,930 km, which is 85% of the way to being exactly opposite.

The antipode of Rovaniemi

Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Rovaniemi, Finland and you come out at 66.50 degrees south, 154.27 degrees west. That point is in the Southern Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Dunedin, New Zealand, 3,085 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 11:50 pm on Thursday.

The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 66.50 degrees north becomes 66.50 degrees south, and 25.73 degrees east becomes 154.27 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Rovaniemi is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-10, roughly twelve hours from Rovaniemi, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.

Sunrise and sunset in Rovaniemi

Today the sun rises in Rovaniemi at 8:31 am and sets at 3:30 pm, giving 6 hours 59 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 Rovaniemi.

Sun and moon in Rovaniemi today

The sun is up in Rovaniemi for 6 hours 59 minutes today, from 8:31 am to 3:30 pm. The moon rises in Rovaniemi at 2:40 am and sets at 2:50 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.

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 Rovaniemi

Seven days from November 5, 2026, computed for Rovaniemi, Finland at 66.50 degrees north, 25.73 degrees east, on the clock of Europe/Helsinki. 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 Rovaniemi, Finland, 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 Rovaniemi

From Rovaniemi, Finland the qibla is 161.6 degrees on a true compass, which is south-southeast, or 18.4 degrees west of due south. The Kaaba is 5,113 km away, 3,177 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Rovaniemi, Finland 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 Rovaniemi, Finland 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.

Rovaniemi time now: common questions

What time is it in Rovaniemi, Finland right now?

12:50 pm on Thursday November 5, 2026. Rovaniemi runs on EET, UTC+2.

What time zone is Rovaniemi in?

Europe/Helsinki, currently EET at UTC+2. 11 of the cities on this site keep that zone.

What is the UTC offset for Rovaniemi?

UTC+2 at this instant. It alternates between UTC+2 and UTC+3 across the year.

Does Rovaniemi observe daylight saving time?

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

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

Rovaniemi is 7 hours ahead of New York, where it is 5:50 am right now.

What time does the sun set in Rovaniemi today?

3:30 pm, after a sunrise at 8:31 am and 6 hours 59 minutes of daylight.

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

66.50 degrees south, 154.27 degrees west, in the Southern Ocean.

When is the best time to call Rovaniemi from London?

Between 11:00 am and 6:00 pm in Rovaniemi, which is 9:00 am to 4:00 pm in London.

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