Ballymena in numbers
- Coordinates
- 54.8636, -6.2763
- Population
- 28 932
- Region
- Northern Ireland
- Country
- United Kingdom, Europe
- Capital
- London — 554 km away
What time is it in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Get the current local time in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, a location in the Europe/London time zone (+1).
Ballymena, United Kingdom
Saturday, 17 October 2026
UTC+1 · Europe/London
Local time in Ballymena
UTC+1 · daylight saving time is active
Ballymena keeps Europe/London clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:59 AM Solar noon 1:11 PM Sunset 6:24 PM Daylight 10 h 26 min Night 13 h 34 min Civil twilight 7:22 AM – 7:01 PM
Weather in Ballymena right now
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Ballymena and its neighbours
Postal codes
- BT42
- BT43
- BT44
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 Northern Ireland
- Belfast 348 005
- Londonderry County Borough 87 153
- Derry 83 652
- Lisburn 77 506
- Newtownabbey 63 860
- Bangor 61 011
Same time zone — Europe/London
- London United Kingdom
- Birmingham United Kingdom
- Glasgow United Kingdom
Nearby places
- Galgorm — 2.6 km
- Gracehill — 4.0 km
- Teeshan — 4.8 km
- Cullybackey — 5.3 km
- Broughshane — 5.4 km
- Ahoghill — 5.8 km
Ballymena: clock, sun and surroundings
Sunrise today in Ballymena lands at 7:59 AM; sunset lands at 6:24 PM. That is 10 h 26 min of light.
Both Galgorm and Gracehill are near Ballymena and keep its time.
3 postal codes correspond to Ballymena.
Ballymena stands in Europe/London, an offset of UTC+1 from Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving: Yes.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone information applies to Ballymena?
- The applicable time zone information is Europe/London, with an offset of +1.
- Does the time in Ballymena vary with the season?
- Daylight saving time in Ballymena: Yes.
- When is the sun down in Ballymena?
- The sun goes down at 6:24 PM.