What timezone is Daugavpils in?

Daugavpils uses the IANA timezone Europe/Riga. The UTC offset is UTC+2 in winter (standard time) and UTC+3 during daylight saving time (summer).

Does Daugavpils observe daylight saving time?

Yes. Daugavpils observes daylight saving time, shifting from UTC+2 (standard time) to UTC+3 in summer.

What is the current UTC offset for Daugavpils?

Daugavpils is currently at UTC+3. It is currently observing daylight saving time.

What is the time difference between Daugavpils and New York?

Daugavpils is currently 7 hours ahead of New York.

What is the time difference between Daugavpils and London?

Daugavpils is currently 2 hours ahead of London.

Daugavpils, Latvia · UTC+3

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Thursday, April 2, 2026

W14 ↑ 06:43 ↓ 19:53 DST

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Daugavpils, Latvia’s second-largest city, sits in the country’s southeastern corner, close to the Lithuanian, Belarusian, and Russian borders. It shares the IANA timezone Europe/Riga: UTC+2 in winter (Eastern European Time) and UTC+3 in summer (EEST), following EU seasonal clock change rules. Latvia shifts its clocks with the rest of the EU.

The city is geographically unusual within Latvia: roughly half its population speaks Russian as a first language, a legacy of Soviet-era demographics. This creates a kind of psychological timezone division that the official clock doesn’t capture. Moscow runs on UTC+3 year-round. In summer, when Daugavpils shifts to EEST (also UTC+3), the city’s Russian-speaking residents are, for a few months, on the same clock as Moscow. In winter, they’re an hour behind.

Dramatic daylight and a divided community

At 55.9 degrees north, nearly the same latitude as Copenhagen, Daugavpils has dramatic daylight variation: 18 hours of daylight near the summer solstice and fewer than 7 hours near the winter solstice. The EU debate about ending seasonal clock changes would affect Daugavpils as it would affect all of Latvia, and the city’s divided community would have its own views on whether permanent summer or permanent winter time feels more natural.

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Sources

IANA Time Zone Database
Latvijas Vides, Ģeoloģijas un Meteoroloģijas Centrs (LVĢMC)
Plakans, Andrejs. The Latvians: A Short History. Hoover Institution Press, 1995.

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Questions about time in Daugavpils

What timezone is Daugavpils in?: Daugavpils uses the IANA timezone Europe/Riga. The UTC offset is UTC+2 in winter (standard time) and UTC+3 during daylight saving time (summer).
Does Daugavpils observe daylight saving time?: Yes. Daugavpils observes daylight saving time. In 2026, clocks spring forward one hour on Sunday, March 29 and fall back one hour on Sunday, October 25. During DST, the UTC offset shifts from UTC+2 to UTC+3.
What is the current UTC offset for Daugavpils?: Daugavpils is currently at UTC+3. It is currently observing daylight saving time.
What is the time difference between Daugavpils and New York?: Daugavpils is currently 7 hours ahead of New York.
What is the time difference between Daugavpils and London?: Daugavpils is currently 2 hours ahead of London.
What is the time difference between Daugavpils and Los Angeles?: Daugavpils is currently 10 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
What is the time difference between Daugavpils and Tokyo?: Daugavpils is currently 6 hours behind Tokyo. Tokyo does not observe daylight saving time, so this gap changes by 1 hour when Daugavpils transitions to/from DST.
What is the IANA timezone name for Daugavpils?: The IANA timezone database identifier for Daugavpils is Europe/Riga. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Europe/Riga' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Europe/Riga')`), or any IANA-compatible library.

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