It is 6:43 am in Arctic/Longyearbyen

Arctic/Longyearbyen is the IANA identifier for the time zone of Longyearbyen in Svalbard and Jan Mayen. It is running at UTC+1 right now, abbreviated CET, and the local date is Saturday, November 7, 2026. The zone is on its standard offset at the moment.

What time is it in Arctic/Longyearbyen right now

6:43 am on Saturday, November 7, 2026, as this page was served, which in 24 hour form is 06:43. The clock above ticks on from there in your own browser. The offset is a whole hour ahead of UTC, so a UTC timestamp converts here by changing the hour and leaving the minutes exactly as they are.

47 other zones read UTC+1 at this instant. They are interchangeable as a clock reading today and not as an identifier: storing UTC+1 instead of Arctic/Longyearbyen throws away the rule that decides what they all do at the next transition.

The UTC offset of Arctic/Longyearbyen

An offset of UTC+1 names the meridian 15.0 degrees east, and Longyearbyen, Norway sits at 15.65 degrees east. Those are within 3 minutes of solar time of each other, so this is one of the zones whose clock genuinely matches its own sun.

Because this zone moves its clocks, UTC+1 is only today's answer. It runs at UTC+1 for the winter part of the year and UTC+2 for the summer part, a difference of 1 hour, and any gap memorised against it is wrong for part of the year.

Daylight saving in Arctic/Longyearbyen

Arctic/Longyearbyen does observe daylight saving. The next change is on March 28, 2027: at 1:00 am local the clocks go forward, and UTC+1 becomes UTC+2. That hour is skipped and never appears on the clock at all, which is why a wall clock time in this zone is not always a single instant.

Every clock change the database has for this zone in 2025, 2026 and 2027, with the exact local reading either side of the jump.

How the offset of Arctic/Longyearbyen has changed since 1970

Read on 1 January and 1 July of each year, which is the cheapest pair of samples that shows both the winter offset and whether the clocks moved that summer. The zone has passed through 2 distinct eras in that time and has used 2 different offsets: UTC+1, UTC+2. Its current behaviour has held since 1980. A rule change that began and ended between July and the following January is invisible to this sampling, so the table is a shape rather than a complete edit history.

The earliest summer shift this sampling sees here is 1980, and the zone has kept moving its clocks since. The dates the change falls on have moved several times even where the rule has not.

Countries and regions that use Arctic/Longyearbyen

One country uses Arctic/Longyearbyen: Svalbard and Jan Mayen, which keeps this as its only time zone and has a population of about 2,900.

Cities in the Arctic/Longyearbyen time zone

The one city this site covers inside Arctic/Longyearbyen, each with a live clock and today's sunrise and sunset worked out from its own coordinate. The clock reading is a property of the identifier, so it is the same anywhere else in the zone; the sunrise is not, because that is set by latitude and longitude.

The sun against the clock in Arctic/Longyearbyen

Worked out for Longyearbyen, Norway, the city this site covers inside the zone, at 78.22 degrees north, 15.65 degrees east. The sun does not rise there today: it stays below the horizon all day. Solar noon, the moment the sun is highest, falls at 11:41 am, which is 19 minutes before clock noon.

That gap is the whole argument about where zone lines belong, in one number. It is made of three things: Longyearbyen, Norway sitting 0.6 degrees east of the UTC+1 meridian, the equation of time, which today runs 16.4 minutes ahead of mean time, and the hour of daylight saving this zone adds in summer. Full sunrise and sunset times for Longyearbyen.

Convert Arctic/Longyearbyen to another time zone

The converter is keyed on the abbreviations people type rather than on identifiers. Arctic/Longyearbyen is at UTC+1 right now, the same reading as CET, so these pages answer the same question for it today. They will diverge if the two zones ever adopt different daylight saving rules, which is exactly why the identifier is the thing worth storing.

Questions about Arctic/Longyearbyen

What time is it in Arctic/Longyearbyen right now?

6:43 am on Saturday, November 7, 2026, as this page was served. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.

What is the UTC offset of Arctic/Longyearbyen?

UTC+1 at this instant, and it alternates between UTC+1 in winter and UTC+2 in summer.

Does Arctic/Longyearbyen observe daylight saving time?

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

What is the abbreviation for Arctic/Longyearbyen?

CET at this instant. The letters change with the season, because the standard and summer offsets have separate names.

Which countries use Arctic/Longyearbyen?

Svalbard and Jan Mayen.

Why store Arctic/Longyearbyen instead of UTC+1?

Because the offset is an output and the identifier is the input. This zone alone has two offsets in a year, and 47 other zones share its current reading while carrying different rules. A record storing UTC+1 cannot tell them apart; a record storing Arctic/Longyearbyen keeps working through every future rule change.

Other time zones in the Arctic

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