Current time in Gothenburg, Sweden
The current local time in Gothenburg is shown below. Gothenburg observes CET in winter and CEST during daylight saving time.
What's the daylight saving status?
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
What's the timezone history of Gothenburg?
Gothenburg keeps Central European Time with the rest of Sweden, switching to summer time on the EU schedule. The country's position might suggest an Eastern European offset, but Sweden holds to the central zone shared with Germany and the Nordic mainland. Gothenburg's western position, near 12 degrees east, places it a little closer to the offset's meridian than Stockholm, so the clock and the sun align slightly better, though the high latitude still brings long summer days and dark, short winter ones.
What are the working hours in Gothenburg?
Manufacturing, the port and its logistics, and a strong engineering and research base, much of it tied to Volvo and the surrounding supplier network, anchor the working economy. The Swedish working day runs broadly 08:00 to 17:00 on weekdays, with the mid-morning coffee break known as fika a genuine institution. Swedes take a long summer holiday, with much of the country away through July, and the main closures otherwise fall around Midsummer in June, a major national fixture, and the Christmas season.
Where is Gothenburg?
Gothenburg sits on the west coast of Sweden, at the mouth of the Göta river on the Kattegat strait, the country's second city and its largest port, with a metropolitan population of around 1 million. Founded in the seventeenth century on a grid of canals laid out by Dutch engineers, it grew into Sweden's gateway to the North Sea and the Atlantic. It is the home of Volvo, both the car maker and the truck and engineering group, which anchors a large manufacturing economy.