Lower Dounreay in numbers
- Coordinates
- 58.5829, -3.7187
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom, Europe
- Capital
- London — 819 km away
What time is it in Lower Dounreay, Scotland, United Kingdom
The clock on this page follows the local time of Lower Dounreay, Scotland, United Kingdom, in the Europe/London zone (+0).
Lower Dounreay, United Kingdom
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC+0 · Europe/London
Local time in Lower Dounreay
UTC+0 · no daylight saving time
Lower Dounreay keeps Europe/London clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:48 AM Solar noon 12:00 PM Sunset 4:11 PM Daylight 8 h 23 min Night 15 h 37 min Civil twilight 7:04 AM – 4:56 PM
Weather in Lower Dounreay right now
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Lower Dounreay and its neighbours
Postal codes
- KW14 Dounreay — 2.0 km away
- KW12 Dorrery — 14.2 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 Scotland
Same time zone — Europe/London
- London United Kingdom
- Birmingham United Kingdom
- Glasgow United Kingdom
Nearby places
- Buldoo — 0.5 km
- Achreamie — 1.8 km
- Upper Dounreay — 1.8 km
- Dounreay — 2.0 km
- Skaill — 2.1 km
- Isauld — 3.0 km
Lower Dounreay: clock, sun and surroundings
Today the sun rises over Lower Dounreay at 7:48 AM and sets at 4:11 PM. That is 8 h 23 min of daylight in all.
Anyone in Buldoo or Upper Dounreay reads the same clock as Lower Dounreay.
2 postal codes are attached to Lower Dounreay.
Local clocks in Lower Dounreay follow the Europe/London zone, UTC+0. Do they shift for daylight saving? No.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone does Lower Dounreay use?
- Lower Dounreay uses Europe/London, which has an offset of +0.
- Does Lower Dounreay follow daylight saving time?
- No.
- What time is last light in Lower Dounreay?
- The sun sets at 4:11 PM.