Current time in Antalya, Turkey
The current local time in Antalya is shown below. Antalya observes TRT.
What's the daylight saving status?
Antalya does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- Europe/Istanbul
- Standard abbreviation
- TRT
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇹🇷 Turkey
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Antalya?
Antalya observes Turkey Time at UTC+3 year-round, with no daylight saving. Turkey moved to permanent UTC+3 in 2016, abandoning the European DST schedule it had previously followed. The change places Turkey in step with Moscow time and an hour ahead of EU partners during the European winter. Antalya's longitude near 30 degrees east places wall time roughly 30 minutes behind mean solar noon in summer, lengthening the evening in tourist months but darkening early-winter mornings noticeably.
What are the working hours in Antalya?
Tourism dominates the regional economy, with hospitality scheduling reshaping office and service hours through the April-to-October peak season. Antalya Airport is Turkey's third-busiest. Standard office hours in the city centre run 08:30 to 17:30, with a one-hour lunch. The working week runs Monday to Friday, with Saturday morning openings common in retail. Ramadan adjusts the rhythm noticeably, with shorter daytime hours and active evening commerce post-iftar; the holy month's date shifts roughly 11 days earlier each year on the solar calendar.
Where is Antalya?
Antalya sits on Turkey's Mediterranean coast, the largest city of the Turkish Riviera. The city proper holds around 1.8 million residents and Antalya Province reaches approximately 2.7 million. The Taurus Mountains rise abruptly inland, reaching 3,000 metres within 50 kilometres of the coast and giving the city its dramatic backdrop. Travertine cliffs around Düden Falls drop into the sea at the city's eastern edge. The historic Kaleiçi old town, contained within partly preserved Roman and Ottoman walls, anchors the original Mediterranean harbour.