Current time in Venice, Italy
The current local time in Venice is shown below. Venice observes CET in winter and CEST during daylight saving time.
Daylight saving time
Sunrise & sunset today
Timezone facts
Venice in context
Venice sits on a cluster of 118 small islands in a tidal lagoon off the northern Adriatic coast in the Veneto region of northeastern Italy. The historic city proper holds around 50,000 residents, with the wider municipal area including the mainland district of Mestre at around 250,000. The geography is unique among major cities: there are no roads in the historic centre, with movement organised across a network of canals and bridges, and the rising sea levels of recent decades have produced increasingly frequent acqua alta flooding.
Timezone history of Venice
Venice shares Central European Time with the rest of Italy. The city's position toward the eastern edge of the Italian peninsula places it closer to the CET meridian than Milan, with the Slovenian border around 100 kilometres east marking the change to Eastern European Time (Slovenia uses CET, so the change actually happens at the Croatian border further east at the Adriatic edge of the CET zone).
Working hours in Venice
Venice's working economy is overwhelmingly dominated by tourism, with around 30 million annual visitors producing year-round demand at extreme density relative to the small resident population. Office hours in the conventional sectors run 09:00 to 18:00, but most of the labour force is engaged in hospitality, transportation, and tourism services running variable shifts. The annual Venice Biennale (alternating art and architecture editions in alternating years) is the city's largest international business event.