Current time in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
The current local time in Newcastle upon Tyne is shown below. Newcastle upon Tyne observes GMT in winter and BST during daylight saving time.
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What are the timezone facts?
What's the timezone history of Newcastle upon Tyne?
Newcastle observes Greenwich Mean Time in winter and British Summer Time in summer, switching on the EU-aligned last-Sunday-of-March and last-Sunday-of-October rule (preserved despite Brexit). The city's latitude of around 55 degrees north places it just south of Edinburgh in seasonal day-length terms: mid-December sunsets arrive close to 15:40 and late-June twilight extends past 22:15. The longitude of around 1.6 degrees west places solar noon close to six minutes behind clock noon.
What are the working hours in Newcastle upon Tyne?
Newcastle's working economy has been substantially reshaped from its industrial heritage of shipbuilding and coal: the city now hosts a growing technology and digital cluster around the Helix innovation district, life sciences anchored by Newcastle University, and a significant financial-services back-office sector. Office hours run 09:00 to 17:30. The annual Great North Run half-marathon in September, with around 60,000 participants, is the city's largest sporting event and produces visible disruption to the urban core for around a day.
Where is Newcastle upon Tyne?
Newcastle upon Tyne sits on the north bank of the River Tyne in north-east England, around 16 kilometres inland from the North Sea coast at Tynemouth. The city proper holds around 300,000 residents, with the wider Tyne and Wear conurbation including Gateshead, Sunderland, and South Shields at around 1.65 million. The river forms a natural east-west axis through the centre, crossed by seven bridges including the iconic Tyne Bridge of 1928. The land rises sharply from the river on both sides, producing a distinctive city centre.