What time is it in Romania right now? 🇷🇴

It is 1:56 pm in Bucharest right now, Thursday, November 5, 2026. Romania runs on EET at UTC+2. Every reading on this page is computed from the IANA time zone database at the moment you loaded it, and the clocks above and below tick on from there.

Time in Romania now

Romania keeps a single time zone, Europe/Bucharest, so there is one answer to the question and it is the same in every town: 1:56 pm. The offset is UTC+2, and it is the standard one at the moment.

The offset from UTC in Bucharest is UTC+2, which is 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Nine in the morning in Bucharest is 7:00 am UTC.

Romania time zone in full

Each row is a zone identifier from the IANA database, its reading at this instant, its offset from UTC and whether it is currently on standard or summer time. All of them agree today, which is the usual case for Romania.

Does Romania have daylight saving time?

Romania does observe daylight saving, in every zone it has. The next change is on March 28, 2027, when the clocks go forward and UTC+2 becomes UTC+3. Until then the offset here is UTC+2.

Because the clocks move, the gap between Romania and anywhere that does not move its own is not a constant. It shifts by an hour twice a year, and a difference memorised in one season is wrong in the other. That is the single most common source of a missed call into Romania.

Where Romania is on the map

The marker is on Bucharest, the point every sun reading and every call window on this page is worked out from.

Time difference between Bucharest and major cities

Worked out at this instant rather than from a stored table, so daylight saving on either side is already in it.

Best time to call Romania

A nine to five working day in Bucharest against a nine to five day elsewhere. The overlap column is the stretch when both desks are open, given on each side's own clock.

Daylight hours in Bucharest today

In Bucharest the sun rose at 6:58 am today and sets at 5:00 pm, giving 10 hours 2 minutes of daylight. The capital is losing 2 minutes 37 seconds of daylight a day at the moment, and the sun stands highest at 11:59 am.

Solar noon in Bucharest is 11:59 am, which is almost exactly at clock noon. That gap is the capital sitting at 26.10 degrees east while its clock is set to Europe/Bucharest, plus the equation of time, which today runs 16.5 minutes ahead of mean time, plus an hour of daylight saving for part of the year.

Moon phase over Bucharest tonight

The moon is waning crescent tonight, 25.8 days into the current lunation, with roughly 15 percent of the disc lit. The next full moon falls on November 24, 2026 as Romania reads the date, at 4:53 pm local. The moon phase page has the full cycle.

Current time in Romania cities

The 26 cities this site covers inside Romania, alphabetically, each with its own ticking clock and its own sunrise page.

Every IANA time zone in Romania

These are the identifiers a computer uses. A program that stores Europe/Bucharest rather than UTC+2 keeps working through every future rule change, which is the whole reason the database is keyed this way.

Convert Romania time to another zone

The converter pages below take EET against the zones people most often measure it from. Each one carries a full conversion table rather than a single answer.

Information about Romania

Romania sits in Europe, carries the ISO country code RO and a population of about 19,890,000. Its capital Bucharest is at 44.43 degrees north, 26.10 degrees east, which is the coordinate every sunrise and solar noon on this page is computed from.

Upcoming dates in Romania

Read on Romania's own clock, so the day counts below start from November 5 and not from a UTC date. The list is the internationally observed calendar plus the dates common across Europe, along with this country's own clock changes and the next solstices and equinoxes. National days set by a country's own statute are not included, because this site carries no statute table and a guessed one would be worse than an honest gap.

Sun and moon in Bucharest today

The sun is up in Bucharest for 10 hours 2 minutes today, from 6:58 am to 5:00 pm. The moon rises in Bucharest at 2:44 am and sets at 3:00 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 Bucharest

Seven days from November 5, 2026, computed for Bucharest at 44.43 degrees north, 26.10 degrees east, on the clock of Europe/Bucharest. 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 Bucharest, 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 Bucharest

From Bucharest the qibla is 149.3 degrees on a true compass, which is south-southeast, or 30.7 degrees west of due south. The Kaaba is 2,852 km away, 1,772 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Bucharest 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 Bucharest 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.

Questions about the time in Romania

What time is it in Romania right now?

It is 1:56 pm in Bucharest as this page was served, Thursday, November 5, 2026. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.

What time zone is Romania in?

Romania uses Europe/Bucharest, currently EET at UTC+2.

What is the UTC offset in Romania?

UTC+2 in Bucharest at this instant.

Does Romania observe daylight saving time?

Yes. The next change is March 28, 2027.

What time does the sun set in Bucharest today?

5:00 pm, after a sunrise at 6:58 am and 10 hours 2 minutes of daylight.

When is the best time to call Romania from the United States?

Between 9:00 am and 10:00 am New York time, which is 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm in Bucharest.

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