Preston in numbers
- Coordinates
- 50.6500, -2.4167
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom, Europe
- Capital
- London — 186 km away
- Same name
- 57 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Preston, England, United Kingdom
This is a live clock for Preston, England, United Kingdom, showing local time in the Europe/London zone (+0).
Preston, United Kingdom
Saturday, 31 October 2026
UTC+0 · Europe/London
Local time in Preston
UTC+0 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Preston.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:00 AM Solar noon 11:54 AM Sunset 4:49 PM Daylight 9 h 49 min Night 14 h 11 min Civil twilight 6:25 AM – 5:23 PM
Weather in Preston right now
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Preston and its neighbours
Postal codes
- BN1
- CO10
- CT3
- DT3
- EH40
- GL7
- HR8
- HU12
- LE15
- ME13
- NE30
- NE67
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 Preston
- Preston England, United Kingdom
- Preston Victoria, Australia
- Preston Idaho, United States
- Preston Nova Scotia, Canada
- Preston Texas, United States
Same time zone — Europe/London
- London United Kingdom
- Birmingham United Kingdom
- Glasgow United Kingdom
Nearby places
- Sutton Poyntz — 0.4 km
- Bowleaze — 1.4 km
- Bincombe — 1.9 km
- Overcombe — 2.0 km
- Osmington — 2.1 km
- Littlemoor — 2.2 km
Local time details for Preston
The same local time applies in Preston, Sutton Poyntz and Bowleaze.
Coverage of Preston by postal code amounts to 12 entries.
Preston runs on Europe/London, which sits UTC+0 relative to Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving in effect: No.
Today in Preston, daylight opens at 7:00 AM and closes at 4:49 PM. That span measures 9 h 49 min.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is the clock in Preston based on?
- The clock in Preston is based on Europe/London, with an offset of +0.
- Does Preston run on daylight saving time for part of the year?
- Daylight saving in Preston: No.
- Sunset in Preston is at what time?
- At 4:49 PM.