Current time in Surrey, United Kingdom
The current local time in Surrey is shown below. Surrey observes GMT in winter and BST 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 Surrey?
Surrey observes UK civil time, switching between Greenwich Mean Time in winter and British Summer Time in summer alongside the rest of the country. The county's proximity to the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, around 30 kilometres east of the county boundary, places it close to the prime meridian: Guildford in central Surrey sits at around 0.57 degrees west, putting solar noon only around two minutes behind clock noon during standard time. The seasonal shifts follow the last-Sunday rule.
What are the working hours in Surrey?
Surrey's working economy is dominated by London-commuter patterns, with around 350,000 of its residents travelling into central London for work on the South Western Railway and other rail lines. Office hours in the local economy run 09:00 to 17:30. The county hosts substantial pharmaceutical and engineering employers (the headquarters of McLaren in Woking, Unilever's research base in Colworth) alongside a financial-services back-office cluster around Weybridge. Public holidays follow the England and Wales calendar without regional additions.
Where is Surrey?
Surrey is a historic county immediately south of London, with the urbanised northern parishes essentially continuous with the south-western London suburbs and the southern parishes extending into the rural North Downs. The county population is around 1.2 million, with the largest individual towns being Guildford, Woking, and Camberley. The North Downs ridge crosses the county east-to-west, with the chalk escarpment producing distinctive landscape and the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty extending across the central southern part of the county.