{"id":338,"date":"2015-08-21T12:03:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T10:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2026-02-12T20:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:01:15","slug":"time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/visitorinfo\/time\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the time in Vienna?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/clock.jpg\" alt=\"A clock\" class=\"wp-image-13993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/clock.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/clock-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The city is on Central European Time (CET), the time zone covering most of western and central Europe. Vienna also observes daylight savings time, so between late March and late October, the clocks go forward one hour (technically known as CEST).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the moment, the time in Vienna is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/free.timeanddate.com\/clock\/i4tcdqqd\/n259\/tt0\/tw1\/tm1\/ts1\/ta1\/tb4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"124\" height=\"34\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/visitor-questions\/\">Common visitor questions<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/shopping\/opening-hours\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"503\">Shop opening hours<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/eatingdrinking\/drinking-hours-and-age-limits\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4841\">Drinking hours<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Viennese time tips<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dusk.jpg\" alt=\"An orange sunset\" class=\"wp-image-68340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dusk.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dusk-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Dusk can get quite impressive)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CET time zone is one hour ahead of UTC time (Coordinated Universal Time), which usually means the city (and the whole of Austria) is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>one hour ahead of the UK and Ireland<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>six hours ahead of the east coast USA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>nine hours ahead of the west coast USA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>eight to ten hours behind Sydney, Australia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In December, the sun sets at about 4pm, which is when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/christmas-lights\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"884\">Christmas lights<\/a> tend to go on. The Viennese soul then allows itself a little grumble in the early evening dusk. However, liberal quantities of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/eatingdrinking\/food\/weihnachtspunsch-christmas-punch\/\">Weihnachtspunsch<\/a> brighten up the dark winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In June, the sun sets at around 9pm. And the Viennese soul still allows itself a little grumble in the late evening dusk. A glass of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/eatingdrinking\/vienna-wine\/\">Viennese wine<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/eatingdrinking\/beer\/\">Austrian beer<\/a> rounds off those warm summer evenings (perhaps in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/eatingdrinking\/cafespubsbars\/heuriger\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"30836\">Heuriger wine tavern<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ankeruhr.jpg\" alt=\"The Ankeruhr\" class=\"wp-image-43533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ankeruhr.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ankeruhr-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(The Ankeruhr clock in Vienna, built in 1914)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time slows down considerably after lunch in city and federal offices. It comes to a near standstill in most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/eatingdrinking\/cafespubsbars\/coffee-houses\/\">coffee houses<\/a> (and you may even have to wind your watches back a few decades as you cross the threshold).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vienna also has two related attractions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/ankeruhr-anchor-clock\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"6414\">Ankeruhr<\/a>: a large Jugendstil clock installation where famous personalities from the city&#8217;s history rotate around the time display<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wienmuseum.at\/uhrenmuseum_en\">Uhrenmuseum<\/a>: a museum housing over 700 timepieces from around the world and throughout history. It&#8217;s part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sightseeing\/vienna-museums\/wien-museum\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"26812\">Wien Museum<\/a> collection of sites<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city is on Central European Time (CET), the time zone covering most of western and central Europe. Vienna also observes daylight savings time, so between late March and late October, the clocks go forward one hour (technically known as CEST). At the moment, the time in Vienna is: Viennese time tips (Dusk can get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-visitorinfo","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88656,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/88656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}