Current time in Vienna, Austria
The current local time in Vienna is shown below. Vienna observes CET in winter and CEST during daylight saving time.
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Timezone facts
Vienna in context
Vienna sits on the Danube River in northeastern Austria, the capital and largest Austrian city with around 1.95 million residents in the municipality and a wider metropolitan area of around 2.9 million. The city is geographically positioned at the eastern edge of the Alps where they meet the Pannonian Plain that extends into Hungary and Slovakia, with the Vienna Woods rising to the west and the broader river plain extending east.
Timezone history of Vienna
Vienna shares Central European Time with the rest of Austria, Germany, and most of the EU. Austria's position is interesting historically: the city was at the eastern edge of CET as defined in 1893, looking across to the Eastern European Time zone that begins at the Russian-Polish border. The Slovak border, just 60 kilometres east of central Vienna, no longer marks a timezone change as Slovakia uses CET.
Working hours in Vienna
Vienna's working day runs 08:30 to 17:30, with the substantial international organisation presence (OPEC, OSCE, UNIDO, IAEA) operating to their own working calendars but typically aligning with the local time. The traditional Austrian working culture emphasises hour-and-a-half lunch breaks and visible coffeehouse culture for business meetings. Catholic public holidays produce a relatively rich annual calendar, with Corpus Christi in May or June, Assumption on 15 August, and All Saints on 1 November all observed nationally.