Current time in Bordeaux, France
The current local time in Bordeaux is shown below. Bordeaux observes CET in winter and CEST during daylight saving time.
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What are the timezone facts?
What's the timezone history of Bordeaux?
Bordeaux shows the mismatch between France's clock and its geography more sharply than almost any other French city. Lying near 0.6 degrees west, it sits west of the Greenwich meridian itself, yet keeps Central European Time, adopted nationwide under wartime occupation and never given up. The result is a solar noon that arrives well after one o'clock by the civil clock, and after two in summer, so the sun is at its height only in the early afternoon and the long evenings stretch late.
What are the working hours in Bordeaux?
Wine and its trade run deep through the working economy, with the spring barrel-tasting season known as the en primeur drawing buyers from across the world, alongside aerospace, technology, and the public administration of a major regional capital. The working day follows the French pattern of a substantial midday break, running to the early evening. The late solar timing makes for long, light summer evenings well used for outdoor life, and much of the city takes its main holiday in August.
Where is Bordeaux?
Bordeaux sits on the Garonne river in south-western France, a short way inland from the Atlantic coast, the centre of one of the most famous wine regions in the world. The metropolitan area holds around 1 million people. A great port in the eighteenth century, grown wealthy on Atlantic trade, it is laid out in pale, elegant stone along a sweeping bend of the river, and it anchors a corner of France oriented as much toward the ocean as toward Paris.