Current time in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
The current local time in Luxembourg City is shown below. Luxembourg City 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 Luxembourg City?
Luxembourg keeps Central European Time, the same offset as all three of its neighbours, which matters more here than almost anywhere because of the scale of cross-border commuting: each day around 200,000 people travel in from France, Germany, and Belgium to work, nearly half the country's workforce, and not one of them crosses a change of clock on the way. The Grand Duchy follows the EU's daylight-saving schedule and sits comfortably within the western half of the zone.
What are the working hours in Luxembourg City?
The economy is dominated by banking, investment funds, and the European institutions, giving the working day a markedly international and multilingual character, conducted across Luxembourgish, French, German, and English and running broadly 08:00 or 09:00 to 17:00 or 18:00. The daily tide of cross-border workers shapes the rhythm of the roads and railways. Public holidays follow the Catholic and national calendar, with National Day on 23 June the chief civic celebration, and much of the financial sector quietens through August. The European institutions add their own session calendar to the city year.
Where is Luxembourg City?
Luxembourg City rises on a pair of deep, fortified gorges cut by the Alzette and Pétrusse rivers in the south of the Grand Duchy, a small landlocked country wedged between France, Germany, and Belgium. The city proper holds around 130,000 people, but the figure swells each working day as commuters arrive. It is one of the three official seats of the European Union, alongside Brussels and Strasbourg, hosting the Court of Justice and several other institutions on the Kirchberg plateau.