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Rēzekne Municipality, Latvia

Rēzekne Municipality uses Latvia’s single national time zone, Europe/Riga. The offset is UTC+2 in standard time and UTC+3 during daylight saving, while sunrise varies slightly across the municipality and substantially across the seasons.

Zusi, Latvia

7:41:26 PM

Saturday, 5 September 2026

UTC+3 · Europe/Riga

Time and sun data for Zusi — the largest city of Rēzekne Municipality

The sun in Zusi

Sunrise 6:22 AM Solar noon 1:11 PM Sunset 8:00 PM Daylight 13 h 37 min Night 10 h 23 min Civil twilight 5:42 AM – 8:39 PM

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Current time in Rēzekne Municipality, Latvia

The municipality’s villages, towns, and rural parishes all keep the same local hour. Europe/Riga is the correct regional setting because it incorporates Latvia’s daylight-saving behavior. Choosing only UTC+2 would be incomplete for dates when summer time is active.

Rēzekne Municipality surrounds the separately administered city of Rēzekne. This distinction matters for an address or municipal service, but it has no effect on time conversion. The city and surrounding territory move their clocks together.

People coordinating across borders should attach a date to every local time. Differences between countries are not necessarily constant throughout the year, particularly when one place changes clocks and another does not.

A municipal boundary can decide which office handles a form; it cannot persuade noon to arrive twice.

Centres across the municipality

The territory covers a broad part of eastern Latvia and includes numerous settlements rather than one continuous urban area. Rēzekne is the obvious geographic anchor, even though the city has a separate administrative status.

Recognizable local centres include: Viļāni, a town within Rēzekne Municipality. Malta, a substantial settlement south of Rēzekne. Kaunata, a parish centre toward the municipality’s eastern side. Lūznava, known as a local settlement in the surrounding territory.

Nautrēni, a name associated with the municipality’s northern rural area. These examples help choose a closer map point for weather or solar calculations. They should not be read as a strict population ranking. Administrative categories also differ: a town, village, and parish centre are not necessarily comparable units.

Travel between these places does not require changing time zones. Only elapsed travel time needs to be added, making local transport schedules easy to compare once the correct date is known.

Why sunrise differs within the region

A municipality occupies an area rather than a single coordinate. Its eastern edge reaches sunrise slightly before its western edge, while latitude also affects the path and duration of daylight. A page-wide figure generally represents a selected central or named location.

The seasonal movement is much larger than ordinary differences among nearby communities. In summer, morning light develops very early and evenings remain bright. Winter reverses that pattern, concentrating daylight into a shorter span.

Published sunrise is an astronomical value based on a model of the horizon. Real visibility can be altered by relief, forests, buildings, fog, and cloud. Civil twilight is useful when the question is not “Has the sun risen?” but “Is there enough natural light to begin?”

Daylight saving shifts the civil label on sunrise by an hour. Always keep the zone, date, and location together when copying solar information into an itinerary.

Questions and answers

Is Rēzekne Municipality the same as Rēzekne city?: No. They are distinct administrative areas, although the city is the region’s central geographic reference.
Do Viļāni and Malta have matching clocks?: Yes. Both observe Latvia’s Europe/Riga time.
Why can two sites show slightly different sunrise values?: They may use different coordinates, rounding methods, or assumptions about the observer and horizon.