Local time · Faroe Islands
What time is it in Faroe Islands?
9:47:07AM
- UTC offset
- UTC+0:00
- Daylight saving
- Not right now
- Time zones
- One nationwide
- Versus New York
- 5 hours ahead
Faroe Islands observes daylight saving
Faroe Islands is currently on standard time, UTC+0:00. The next change is Sunday, March 28, 2027, when clocks go forward one hour — 1:00 am becomes 2:00 am local time.
Working with Faroe Islands from the US
the Faroe Islands is 5 hours ahead of New York and 8 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 2:00 pm in the Faroe Islands.
To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.
The sun in the Faroe Islands today
- Sunrise
- 8:33 am
- Sunset
- 3:49 pm
- Day length
- 7 hours 16 minutes
- Solar noon
- 12:11 pm
The day is 7 hours 16 minutes long in the Faroe Islands, and losing 5 minutes a day. The sun peaks at 12:11 pm, 11 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and the Faroe Islands sits 27 minutes of solar time west of UTC+0:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.
At this latitude the year is extreme: the Faroe Islands gets 19 hours 45 minutes of daylight at the June solstice and 5 hours 8 minutes at the December one — 14 hours 37 minutes between them. Clock time matters less here than almost anywhere, because for months at a stretch it is either light or dark whatever the clock says.
Other countries
On UTC+0:00 right now, the same clock as Faroe Islands: