East London in numbers
- Coordinates
- 51.5233, -0.0389
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom, Europe
- Capital
- London — 6 km away
- Same name
- 1 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in East London, England, United Kingdom
Below you can see what the time is in East London, England, United Kingdom now, in the Europe/London zone (+1).
East London, United Kingdom
Saturday, 17 October 2026
UTC+1 · Europe/London
Local time in East London
UTC+1 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in East London.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:28 AM Solar noon 12:47 PM Sunset 6:05 PM Daylight 10 h 37 min Night 13 h 23 min Civil twilight 6:54 AM – 6:39 PM
Weather in East London right now
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East London and its neighbours
Postal codes
- E3 Mile End — 0.5 km away
- E1 Stepney — 0.7 km away
- E14 Limehouse — 1.1 km away
- E2 Bethnal Green — 1.6 km away
- E9 Victoria Park — 1.7 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.
Largest cities in England
- London 8 961 989
- Birmingham 1 157 603
- Manchester 568 996
- Sheffield 556 500
- Leeds 536 280
- Liverpool 496 770
Other places named East London
- East London Eastern Cape, South Africa
Same time zone — Europe/London
- London United Kingdom
- Birmingham United Kingdom
- Glasgow United Kingdom
Nearby places
- Stepney — 0.7 km
- Shoreditch — 2.6 km
- Stratford — 2.9 km
- Hackney — 3.3 km
- Bermondsey — 3.4 km
- Lower Clapton — 3.4 km
Time and daylight in East London
Nearby Stepney and Shoreditch follow the same clock as East London.
East London works with 5 postal codes.
East London keeps the Europe/London zone, which is UTC+1. Whether summer time is observed: Yes.
Sunrise time for East London today is 7:28 AM; sunset time is 6:05 PM. Daylight fills 10 h 37 min.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone determines the local time in East London?
- Local time in East London is determined by Europe/London, with an offset of +1.
- Does daylight saving time have any effect on the clock in East London?
- Daylight saving in East London: Yes.
- What time is sunset in East London?
- It is 6:05 PM.