Current time in Hamburg, Germany
The current local time in Hamburg is shown below. Hamburg 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 Hamburg?
Hamburg shares Central European Time with the rest of Germany. The city's relatively northerly latitude of around 53.5 degrees north produces a marked seasonal variation in day length, with mid-December sunsets arriving before 16:00 and June twilight stretching past 22:30. The North Sea climate moderates the temperature range but produces frequent overcast conditions. The longitude of 9.99 degrees east sits slightly west of the CET solar meridian, so noon by the clock arrives a few minutes before the sun reaches its peak.
What are the working hours in Hamburg?
Hamburg's working economy is shaped by the port (the third-largest in Europe by container throughput), media and publishing (Spiegel-Verlag, Der Spiegel, and Die Zeit are all based here), and a substantial maritime and logistics sector. Office hours run 08:30 to 17:30, with port operations running around the clock through three shifts. The city's free-port history produced an unusually mercantile civic culture; the Übersee-Club still hosts shipping and merchant networking. Major public holidays follow the federal calendar with no Hamburg-specific additions.
Where is Hamburg?
Hamburg sits at the mouth of the Elbe River where it widens into the tidal estuary leading to the North Sea, around 100 kilometres upstream from the open coast. The city proper holds around 1.9 million residents, the second-largest in Germany after Berlin, and the wider metropolitan region reaches close to 5.4 million. The harbour covers around a tenth of the city's area, including the historic Speicherstadt warehouse district and the modern HafenCity development that has reshaped the southern waterfront since the 2000s.