No votes yet

Sibiu County, Romania

Sibiu County observes Eastern European Time as Romania’s standard time and Eastern European Summer Time during daylight saving time. Sibiu, Mediaș, Cisnădie, and other localities share one clock, but sunrise visibility varies with season, coordinates, and terrain.

Sibiu, Romania

Friday, 4 September 2026

UTC+3 · Europe/Bucharest

Time and sun data for Sibiu — the largest city of Sibiu County

The sun in Sibiu

Sunrise 06:49 Solar noon 13:24 Sunset 19:59 Daylight 13 h 10 min Night 10 h 50 min Civil twilight 06:18 – 20:30

Romania · 331 cities · page 1 of 2

Largest cities

All cities — page 1

Current time in Sibiu County, Romania

The official time in Sibiu city is also the official time in Mediaș, Cisnădie, Avrig, and communities throughout the county. Traveling between them never requires a domestic time-zone adjustment. Romania’s standard zone is Eastern European Time, with a seasonal move to Eastern European Summer Time. Use Europe/Bucharest in software so that a date in either period is interpreted using the appropriate civil-time rule.

This is more robust than attaching a permanent numerical offset to a hotel booking, conference, or recurring call. The named zone preserves the event’s intended Romanian local time when clocks change seasonally.

Medieval towers are excellent at marking a skyline, but a time-zone database is better at handling next season’s meeting.

Urban and mountain destinations

Sibiu is the county seat and its principal city. Mediaș is another major urban center, while Cisnădie and Avrig are frequent local references. Mountain and foothill destinations inside the county remain on precisely the same civil time.

A traveler may encounter schedules in different languages or with place names written without Romanian diacritics. These variations do not signify another time standard. What matters for conversion is the actual locality, country, and date.

Use Sibiu for a county-seat clock or general reference. Use the destination’s coordinates for precise solar events. Store appointments under Europe/Bucharest. Separate the planned departure hour from estimated journey duration.

Sunrise, horizons, and mountain shadow

The calculated sunrise changes every day because Earth’s orientation relative to the Sun changes through the year. Summer brings longer daylight than winter, and Romania’s seasonal clock change alters the civil-time label attached to the event.

Sibiu County’s relief matters to an observer. A mountain ridge can block direct rays after astronomical sunrise, while an open view may reveal them closer to the calculated moment. Urban buildings can create a similar delay at street level.

Use a Sibiu city result for activities in the city, not automatically for a mountain trail or village beyond a ridge. Civil dawn indicates the earlier period of growing light and may be a better guide for travel that begins before the solar disc is visible.

Questions and answers
Are Sibiu and Mediaș in the same time zone?
Yes. Both cities follow Romania’s national clock and daylight saving arrangement.
What identifier should developers use?
Europe/Bucharest is the standard location-based identifier for Romanian civil time.
Can mountains change the calculated sunrise?
They do not change the astronomical calculation, but they can delay when an observer actually sees direct sunlight.

Related tools and information

All pages