Current time in Stavanger, Norway right now

It is 9:01 am in Stavanger, Norway 🇳🇴 right now, on Thursday, November 5, 2026. The city keeps Europe/Oslo, which is CET at UTC+1, so Stavanger is 1 hour ahead of UTC, where it is 8:01 am. The sun rose in Stavanger at 8:05 am and sets at 4:36 pm, which is 8 hours 31 minutes of daylight.

What time is it in Stavanger right now?

The time in Stavanger, Norway is 9:01 am, 09:01 on a 24 hour clock, on Thursday November 5, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Europe/Oslo rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.

Stavanger sits at 58.97 degrees north and 5.73 degrees east, close to the subpolar latitudes and 6,557 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 15.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 9.3 degrees west of that line. Those 9.3 degrees are worth 37 minutes 4 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:21 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.

Stavanger time zone and UTC offset

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

Daylight hours in Stavanger today

The sun rose in Stavanger at 8:05 am and sets at 4:36 pm, which is 8 hours 31 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Stavanger, is at 12:21 pm, which is 21 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -15.76 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 15.3 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 Stavanger, which works from the same coordinates.

Where Stavanger 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 Stavanger 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 Stavanger.

Best time to call Stavanger

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 Norway

We cover 8 cities in Norway. These are the ones nearest to Stavanger, with the time on their clocks right now.

Cities on Europe/Oslo time

7 of our cities keep Europe/Oslo, so every one of them reads 9:01 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Stavanger. Nearest first:

Moon phase over Stavanger tonight

The moon is a waning crescent tonight, 25.7 days into its cycle and about 16% lit. The next full moon falls on November 24, 2026 at 3:53 pm Oslo 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 Stavanger clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.

When the clocks change in Stavanger

The next change is on Sunday, March 28, 2027, 143 days from now, when the clocks in Stavanger 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 Stavanger 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 Stavanger is from other cities

Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Stavanger is Bergen, Norway at 160 km, and the furthest is Dunedin, New Zealand at 18,239 km, which is 91% of the way to being exactly opposite.

The antipode of Stavanger

Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Stavanger, Norway and you come out at 58.97 degrees south, 174.27 degrees west. That point is in the South Pacific Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Dunedin, New Zealand, 1,776 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 9:01 pm on Thursday.

The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 58.97 degrees north becomes 58.97 degrees south, and 5.73 degrees east becomes 174.27 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Stavanger is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-11, roughly twelve hours from Stavanger, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.

Sunrise and sunset in Stavanger

Today the sun rises in Stavanger at 8:05 am and sets at 4:36 pm, giving 8 hours 31 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 Stavanger.

Sun and moon in Stavanger today

The sun is up in Stavanger for 8 hours 31 minutes today, from 8:05 am to 4:36 pm. The moon rises in Stavanger at 3:08 am and sets at 3:15 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 7.5 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 Stavanger

Seven days from November 5, 2026, computed for Stavanger, Norway at 58.97 degrees north, 5.73 degrees east, on the clock of Europe/Oslo. 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 Stavanger, Norway, 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 Stavanger

From Stavanger, Norway the qibla is 132.2 degrees on a true compass, which is southeast, or 42.2 degrees south of due east. The Kaaba is 4,974 km away, 3,091 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Stavanger, Norway 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 Stavanger, Norway 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.

Stavanger time now: common questions

What time is it in Stavanger, Norway right now?

9:01 am on Thursday November 5, 2026. Stavanger runs on CET, UTC+1.

What time zone is Stavanger in?

Europe/Oslo, currently CET at UTC+1. 7 of the cities on this site keep that zone.

What is the UTC offset for Stavanger?

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

Does Stavanger observe daylight saving time?

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

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

Stavanger is 6 hours ahead of New York, where it is 3:01 am right now.

What time does the sun set in Stavanger today?

4:36 pm, after a sunrise at 8:05 am and 8 hours 31 minutes of daylight.

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

58.97 degrees south, 174.27 degrees west, in the South Pacific Ocean.

When is the best time to call Stavanger from London?

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

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