Time in Cologne now
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Saturday, September 5, 2026
Cologne time zone info
UTC +2
Central European Summer Time (GMT+2)
now 7 hours ahead of Chicago
- Cologne is currently observing daylight saving time.
- The IANA time zone identifier for Cologne is Europe/Berlin.
Cologne's sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time
- Sunrise: 7:48 AM
- Sunset: 9:07 PM
- Day length: 13h 19m
- Culmination: 2:28 PM
- Currently Cologne time is 148 minutes behind apparent solar time.
Time difference
Compared with Cologne
UTC
−2 hours
Cologne on the map
- Cologne is in Germany.
- Latitude: 50.94. Longitude: 6.96.
- Population: 1,085,664
- Germany: Population: 84,400,000