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Time in Sofia, Bulgaria now

08:20:35am

Thursday, March 27, 2025

World Theatre Day

Sofia switches to daylight saving time at 03:00AM on Sunday, March 30. The time is set one hour forward.
Sun: ↑ 06:16AM ↓ 06:48PM (12h 33m) - More info - Make Sofia time default - Add to favorite locations

Time zone info for Sofia

UTC +2

Eastern European Time (EET)
now 6 hours ahead of New York

From 30 March 2025: UTC +3 / Eastern European Summer Time (EEST)
The time in Sofia is normally 7 hours ahead of the time in New York, but because these time zones don't share the same start and end times for daylight saving time, the time in Sofia can for a short while be 6 hours ahead of the time in New York.
The IANA time zone identifier for Sofia is Europe/Sofia.

Sunday October 27 2024

Latest change: Winter time started

Switched to UTC +2 / Eastern European Time (EET).
The time was set back one hour from 04:00AM to 03:00AM local time.

Sunday March 30 2025

Next change: Summer time starts

Switching to UTC +3 / Eastern European Summer Time (EEST).
The time will be set forward one hour from 03:00AM to 04:00AM local time.

Time difference
from Sofia

Los Angeles	−9 hours	−9 hours
Chicago	−7 hours	−7 hours
New York	−6 hours	−6 hours
Toronto	−6 hours	−6 hours
São Paulo	−5 hours	−5 hours
London	−2 hours	−2 hours
UTC	−2 hours	−2 hours
Lagos	−1 hours	−1 hours
Paris	−1 hours	−1 hours
Zurich	−1 hours	−1 hours
Cairo	0
Johannesburg	0
Istanbul	+1 hours
Moscow	+1 hours
Dubai	+2 hours
Mumbai	+3.5 hours
Hong Kong	+6 hours
Shanghai	+6 hours
Singapore	+6 hours
Tokyo	+7 hours
Sydney	+9 hours

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Sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time for Sofia

Sunrise: 06:16AM
Sunset: 06:48PM
Day length: 12h 33m
Solar noon: 12:32PM
The current local time in Sofia is 32 minutes ahead of apparent solar time.

Sofia on the map

Sofia is the capital of Bulgaria.
Latitude: 42.70. Longitude: 23.32
Population: 1,153,000

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