Current time in Sofia, Bulgaria
The current local time in Sofia is shown below. Sofia observes EET in winter and EEST 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 Sofia?
Sofia uses Eastern European Time at UTC+2, shifting to UTC+3 during summer daylight saving alongside the rest of the EET zone (Greece, Romania, Finland, the Baltic states). Bulgaria adopted seasonal time changes in 1979 and continues to follow the EU's last-Sunday-of-March and last-Sunday-of-October DST schedule, currently subject to ongoing European debate about abolishing the biannual switch. The city's longitude (around 23 degrees east) sits close to the geographic basis of EET, so wall time and solar time stay closely aligned.
What are the working hours in Sofia?
Working hours in Sofia run 09:00 to 18:00 in offices, with a customary one-hour lunch from 12:00 or 13:00. Public-sector and banking hours often start at 08:30. Public holidays cluster around Orthodox Easter (movable, usually April or May) and a dense early-May sequence including Labour Day (1 May), St George's Day or Day of Bravery (6 May, also Bulgarian Army Day), and the Day of Slavonic Literature (24 May). 22 September commemorates Bulgarian independence; 24 December opens the Christmas period.
Where is Sofia?
Sofia sits in the Sofia Valley in western Bulgaria, between the Vitosha massif to the south and the western Balkan Mountains to the north. The city holds around 1.25 million residents within the urban municipality, around 1.7 million across the wider Sofia metropolitan area. Elevation is around 550 metres, and the city sits roughly 55 kilometres from the Serbian border. The Iskar River, which flows north through Sofia to the Danube, drains the entire valley.