Current time in Dublin, Ireland
The current local time in Dublin is shown below. Dublin observes GMT in winter and undefined during daylight saving time.
Daylight saving time
Sunrise & sunset today
Timezone facts
- Timezone
- Europe/Dublin
- Standard abbreviation
- GMT
- DST abbreviation
- undefined
- Observes daylight saving
- Yes
- Country
- 🇮🇪 Ireland
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
Dublin in context
Dublin sits on the east coast of Ireland at the mouth of the River Liffey, the capital and largest Irish city with around 590,000 residents in the municipality and a wider Greater Dublin area of around 2.1 million, accounting for around 40 percent of the Republic's population. The geography is gentler than other Irish cities: the wider river estuary and flat coastal plain contrast with the steeper Wicklow Mountains immediately south of the city limits.
Timezone history of Dublin
Ireland uses Greenwich Mean Time and Irish Standard Time (IST, which confusingly shares its abbreviation with Indian Standard Time despite being an entirely different offset). The country shares the GMT/IST schedule with the UK across the Irish Sea, with no timezone change at the Northern Ireland border. The Irish Standard Time Act of 1968 briefly experimented with permanent summer time alongside the UK, before reverting in 1971 to the seasonal schedule.
Working hours in Dublin
Dublin's working day runs 09:00 to 17:30, with the substantial multinational tech and pharmaceutical sectors that have set up European headquarters in the city (Google, Meta, Pfizer, Microsoft) operating to flexible hours that often run later to overlap with US markets. The Irish public holiday calendar combines Catholic feast days with secular national observances, including Saint Patrick's Day on 17 March, Easter Monday, the May bank holiday on the first Monday of May, and the October bank holiday on the last Monday of October.