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What time is it in Ards, Leinster, Ireland

This page shows the current local time in Ards, Leinster, Ireland, in the Europe/Dublin time zone (+1).

Ards, Ireland

8:18:38 AM

Thursday, 22 October 2026

UTC+1 · Europe/Dublin

Local time in Ards

UTC+1 · daylight saving time is active

What the clock shows right now in Ards.

The sun today

Sunrise 8:12 AM Solar noon 1:17 PM Sunset 6:22 PM Daylight 10 h 09 min Night 13 h 51 min Civil twilight 7:36 AM – 6:57 PM

Weather in Ards right now

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Ards and its neighbours

Ards at 53.6333, -7.8333 with the nearest towns within 6.0 km · open in OpenStreetMap

Postal codes

N39 Longford — 10.5 km away

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.

Ards in numbers

Coordinates: 53.6333, -7.8333
Region: Leinster
Country: Ireland, Europe
Capital: Dublin — 110 km away
Same name: 1 more places in the world share this name

Largest cities in Leinster

Dublin 1 024 027
South Dublin 301 075
Tallaght 81 022
Drogheda 44 135
Dundalk 43 112
Swords 40 776

Other places named Ards

Ards Ulster, Ireland

Same time zone — Europe/Dublin

Dublin Ireland

Nearby places

Keenagh — 1.7 km
Formoyle — 1.8 km
Corlea — 2.9 km
Foygh — 3.7 km
Derryad — 4.3 km
Barry — 5.7 km

About the time in Ards

The same local time applies in Ards, Keenagh and Formoyle.

Addresses in Ards fall under 1 postal code.

Ards stands in Europe/Dublin, an offset of UTC+1 from Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving: Yes.

Today the sun comes up at 8:12 AM in Ards and goes down at 6:22 PM. Daylight measures 10 h 09 min.

Questions and answers

Is Ards in a specific time zone?: Yes, Ards is in the Europe/Dublin time zone, with an offset of +1.
Is a daylight saving adjustment made in Ards?: Yes.
Which time marks sunrise in Ards?: 8:12 AM marks sunrise.