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What time is it in Kreisfreie Stadt Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

The time in Kreisfreie Stadt Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany at this very moment is shown below, in the Europe/Berlin zone (+1).

Kreisfreie Stadt Essen, Germany

Wednesday, 11 November 2026

UTC+1 · Europe/Berlin

Local time in Kreisfreie Stadt Essen

UTC+1 · no daylight saving time

Kreisfreie Stadt Essen keeps Europe/Berlin clock_time.

The sun today

Sunrise 7:44 AM Solar noon 12:17 PM Sunset 4:51 PM Daylight 9 h 07 min Night 14 h 53 min Civil twilight 7:07 AM – 5:27 PM

Weather in Kreisfreie Stadt Essen right now

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Kreisfreie Stadt Essen and its neighbours

Holteyberg Sevinghausen In Der Sellerbeck Schalke Pierburg Hoersterholz Kreisfreie Stadt Essen
Kreisfreie Stadt Essen at 51.4583, 7.0160 with the nearest towns within 9.9 km · open in OpenStreetMap

Postal codes

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.

Kreisfreie Stadt Essen in numbers

Coordinates
51.4583, 7.0160
Country
Germany, Europe
Capital
Berlin — 453 km away

Largest cities in North Rhine-Westphalia

Same time zone — Europe/Berlin

Nearby places

Time and daylight in Kreisfreie Stadt Essen

The sun is up at 7:44 AM in Kreisfreie Stadt Essen and down again at 4:51 PM. Between those times there are 9 h 07 min of daylight.

Whatever the hour in Kreisfreie Stadt Essen, it is the same in Holteyberg and Sevinghausen.

The number of postal codes covering Kreisfreie Stadt Essen is 5.

Kreisfreie Stadt Essen is served by the Europe/Berlin time zone, offset UTC+1. Daylight saving time applies: No.

Questions and answers

Which time zone applies to Kreisfreie Stadt Essen?
The time zone that applies to Kreisfreie Stadt Essen is Europe/Berlin, with an offset of +1.
Does the local time in Kreisfreie Stadt Essen include a summer time period?
No.
When does daylight begin in Kreisfreie Stadt Essen?
Daylight begins at 7:44 AM.
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