Current time in Reykjavík, Iceland
The current local time in Reykjavík is shown below. Reykjavík observes GMT.
What's the daylight saving status?
Reykjavík does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- Atlantic/Reykjavik
- Standard abbreviation
- GMT
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇮🇸 Iceland
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Reykjavík?
Iceland operates on Greenwich Mean Time at UTC+0 year-round, having abolished daylight saving in 1968 to give its winter mornings more usable light. The country's high latitude produces extreme seasonal variation in day length: around 21 hours of summer daylight at the solstice and barely four hours in mid-December. DST would compress winter mornings into perpetual darkness without producing meaningful summer evening benefit, and reform proposals to shift permanently to UTC-1 to better match solar time have been periodically debated but never adopted.
What are the working hours in Reykjavík?
Reykjavík's working day runs 09:00 to 17:00, with the city's economy dominated by fishing-industry headquarters, geothermal and renewable energy (most domestic power comes from geothermal and hydro), tourism (around 2 million annual visitors in recent years), and a growing tech sector. Lunch is typically brief and informal, often taken in subsidised workplace canteens. Public holidays cluster around Christmas, Easter, the Independence Day on 17 June commemorating the 1944 republic, and the unusual First Day of Summer holiday on the third Thursday of April.
Where is Reykjavík?
Reykjavík sits on the south-western coast of Iceland at the head of the Faxaflói bay, the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state at around 64 degrees north. The city proper holds around 140,000 residents, with the wider capital region reaching close to 240,000 across roughly two-thirds of the country's total population. The geography places it on the boundary between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates, with the Reykjanes peninsula extending south-west; recent volcanic activity since 2021 has produced occasional eruptions visible from the city.