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What time is it in Erek, Van, Turkey

This page answers what time it is in Erek, Van, Turkey right now, in the Europe/Istanbul zone (+3).

Erek, Turkey

11:05:31 AM

Saturday, 17 October 2026

UTC+3 · Europe/Istanbul

Local time in Erek

UTC+3 · no daylight saving time

What the clock shows right now in Erek.

The sun today

Sunrise 6:15 AM Solar noon 11:50 AM Sunset 5:25 PM Daylight 11 h 11 min Night 12 h 49 min Civil twilight 5:48 AM – 5:52 PM

Weather in Erek right now

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Erek and its neighbours

Erek at 38.0231, 44.0822 with the nearest towns within 6.3 km · open in OpenStreetMap

Postal codes

65600

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.

Erek in numbers

Coordinates: 38.0231, 44.0822
Region: Van
Country: Turkey, Asia
Capital: Ankara — 993 km away

Largest cities in Van

Van 525 016
Ercis 91 915
Baskale 14 516
Gevas 11 879
Ozalp 8 249
Edremit 7 464

Same time zone — Europe/Istanbul

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Nearby places

Eleyis — 4.4 km
Kehrizan — 4.6 km
Resulanis — 5.0 km
Durusu — 5.2 km
Harabekoy — 5.6 km
Orencik — 5.6 km

Time and daylight in Erek

Postal service in Erek uses 1 codes.

Erek sits under Europe/Istanbul, which puts local clocks at UTC+3. Daylight saving in use: No.

Sunrise today is 6:15 AM in Erek, with sunset at 5:25 PM. That works out to 11 h 11 min of light.

Travelling from Erek to Eleyis or Kehrizan does not change the hour.

Questions and answers

What time zone is used by Erek?: Erek uses the Europe/Istanbul time zone, which has an offset of +3.
Is the offset in Erek changed for daylight saving?: No.
Sunset in Erek is at what time?: At 5:25 PM.