Ratekau in numbers
- Coordinates
- 53.9500, 10.7333
- Population
- 15 921
- Region
- Schleswig-Holstein
- Country
- Germany, Europe
- Capital
- Berlin — 238 km away
What time is it in Ratekau, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
The clock on this page follows the local time of Ratekau, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, in the Europe/Berlin zone (+2).
Ratekau, Germany
Monday, 7 September 2026
UTC+2 · Europe/Berlin
Local time in Ratekau
UTC+2 · daylight saving time is active
Ratekau keeps Europe/Berlin time.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:37 AM Solar noon 1:17 PM Sunset 7:56 PM Daylight 13 h 20 min Night 10 h 40 min Civil twilight 6:00 AM – 8:33 PM
Weather in Ratekau right now
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Ratekau and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 23626
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 Schleswig-Holstein
- Kiel 252 668
- Lübeck 212 207
- Flensburg 85 838
- Norderstedt 82 844
- Neumuenster 80 196
- Elmshorn 48 703
Same time zone — Europe/Berlin
- Berlin Germany
- Hamburg Germany
- Munich Germany
- Koeln Germany
- Frankfurt Am Main Germany
- Duesseldorf Germany
Nearby places
- Klein Groenau — 15.4 km
- Vorrade — 15.4 km
- Duvennester Krug — 15.6 km
- Wulfsdorf — 15.9 km
- Duvennest — 16.1 km
- Groß Grönau — 16.7 km
Local time details for Ratekau
The clock in Ratekau matches the clock in nearby Bad Schwartau and Timmendorfer Strand.
Delivery zones in Ratekau are marked by 1 postal code.
In Ratekau the time zone is Europe/Berlin and the offset is UTC+2. Daylight saving time used: Yes.
The sun climbs above Ratekau at 6:37 AM and dips below at 7:56 PM. Between them sit 13 h 20 min of daylight.
Questions and answers
- What should I enter as the time zone for Ratekau?
- Enter Europe/Berlin as the time zone for Ratekau; its offset is +2.
- Does Ratekau move its clocks forward at any time?
- Yes.
- When does the sun appear in Ratekau?
- It appears at 6:37 AM.