What time is it in Gent, Flanders, Belgium
Read off the current local time in Gent, Flanders, Belgium, which belongs to the Europe/Brussels zone (+2).
Gent, Belgium
Saturday, 5 September 2026
UTC+2 · Europe/Brussels
Local time in Gent
UTC+2 · daylight saving time is active
Gent keeps Europe/Brussels time.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:06 AM Solar noon 1:45 PM Sunset 8:25 PM Daylight 13 h 19 min Night 10 h 41 min Civil twilight 6:31 AM – 8:59 PM
Weather in Gent right now
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Gent and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 9000
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in Flanders
Other places named Gent
- Gent Ingushetiya Republic, Russia
Same time zone — Europe/Brussels
- Brussels Belgium
Nearby places
- Buchten — 2.2 km
- Zwijnaardse Dries — 2.7 km
- Broeken — 3.7 km
- Botestraat — 3.9 km
- Brusselse Voorstad — 4.0 km
- Den Dries — 4.1 km
About the time in Gent
Time in Gent runs on Europe/Brussels, which is UTC+2. Does daylight saving time apply here? Yes.
Gent sees first light at 7:06 AM today and the sun sets at 8:25 PM. Daylight totals 13 h 19 min.
Travelling from Gent to Ledeberg or Sint-Amandsberg does not change the hour.
Postal coverage of Gent comes to 1 codes.
Questions and answers
- What is Gent's time zone?
- Gent's time zone is Europe/Brussels, with an offset of +2.
- Does the clock in Gent move for summer time?
- Yes.
- What hour brings sunset in Gent?
- The hour is 8:25 PM.