What time is it in Isle of Man?
GMT / GMT+1 · Europe/Isle_of_Man
Back to Isle of ManNow in Douglas
GMT UTC+00:00
UTC+00:00
UTC+01:00 in summerGreenwich Mean Time
The Isle of Man runs on Greenwich Mean Time from late October and puts its clocks forward an hour, to UTC+1, from the last Sunday in March. It is a Crown Dependency with its own parliament, yet its clocks move on exactly the nights the United Kingdom's do, and one zone covers the whole island, so the clock in Douglas is the clock in every other town on the island.
Today
Daylight in Douglas today
DayLive
12:00
- Sunrise
- 07:13First light 06:38
- Sunset
- 19:04Last light 19:39
- Day length
- 11 h 50 min−5 min on yesterday
- Solar noon
- 13:08Sun at 34°, its highest
Plan a call
Find an hour that works in Isle of Man and elsewhere
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Time difference
How far Isle of Man is from other places
Around the world
- LondonSame time
- New York−5 h
- Los Angeles−8 h
- São Paulo−4 h
- Moscow+2 h
- Dubai+3 h
- Delhi+4:30 h
- Beijing+7 h
- Tokyo+8 h
- Sydney+9 h
Clock changes
When the clocks change in Isle of Man
Next change
Sunday, 25 October 2026
Clocks go back one hour: at 02:00 it becomes 01:00 GMT, UTC+00:00. The night is an hour longer.
| Year | Clocks go forward | Clocks go back |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 29 March 01:00 → 02:00 | 25 October 02:00 → 01:00 |
| 2027 | 28 March 01:00 → 02:00 | 31 October 02:00 → 01:00 |
| 2028 | 26 March 01:00 → 02:00 | 29 October 02:00 → 01:00 |
| 2029 | 25 March 01:00 → 02:00 | 28 October 02:00 → 01:00 |
| 2030 | 31 March 01:00 → 02:00 | 27 October 02:00 → 01:00 |
Greenwich Mean Time became the island's legal time on 30 March 1883, three years after Great Britain adopted it by statute. Summer time reached the island through British law: the Summer Time Act 1922 was passed for Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, and the Summer Time Act 1947 carried the same territorial extent. The time zone database has no separate history for the island and repeats London's, which puts it two hours ahead of GMT in the summers of 1941 to 1945 and 1947 and on UTC+1 all through 1969 and 1970, the years of Britain's experiment with year-round summer time. The Summer Time Order 1997, which gave Britain the European Union's dates from 1998, names Guernsey but not the Isle of Man in its extent.
Daylight
Sunrise and sunset through the year in Douglas
- Sunrise
- 07:13
- Sunset
- 19:04
- Daylight
- 11 h 50 min
- Change
- −5 min
Longest day of 2026: 19 June, 17 h 11 min.
Computed for 54.15, -4.48 at sea level with the NOAA solar equations, to the nearest minute, taking no account of hills.
Writing the time
- Clock
- 24-hour
- Short date
- 05/03/2026
- Long date
- 5 March 2026
- Week starts
- Monday
- Zone names
- GMT / GMT+1
- Time zone database
- Isle of Man
History
How the clocks in Isle of Man got here
- 1970
- Summer time kept through the winter: UTC+01:00 all year.
- 1971
- UTC+00:00 in winter, UTC+01:00 in summer time.
- 1972
- To today.UTC+00:00 in winter, UTC+01:00 in summer time.
From the IANA time zone database, Europe/Isle_of_Man, as the build machine carries it. The database keeps this zone's own history from 1970 only; the years before are told above from the sources.
Common questions
Questions about the time in Isle of Man
What time zone is the Isle of Man in?
Greenwich Mean Time, UTC+0, in winter, and UTC+1 in summer. The time zone database files the island under its own name, Europe/Isle_of_Man, but that entry is a link to Europe/London rather than a zone with rules of its own. The name exists only because the island has its own two-letter country code, IM.
When do the clocks change on the Isle of Man in 2026?
They went forward on Sunday 29 March, at 01:00 GMT, which became 02:00. They go back on Sunday 25 October, when 02:00 becomes 01:00. The 2027 changes fall on 28 March and 31 October. Each change happens at 01:00 GMT, the same instant as in London, so there is never an hour in the year when the island and Great Britain show different times.
Does the Isle of Man have the same time as the United Kingdom?
Yes, all year. The island governs itself through Tynwald and is not part of the United Kingdom, but it has shared British clock time since the nineteenth century, and the Summer Time Acts of 1922 and 1947 were written to cover it.
When did the Isle of Man adopt Greenwich Mean Time?
On 30 March 1883. Great Britain had made Greenwich Mean Time its legal time in 1880, under the Statutes (Definition of Time) Act, and the Isle of Man followed three years later. Jersey took the same step in 1898 and Guernsey in 1913, so the Manx change came first of the three Crown Dependencies.
Why is Europe/Isle_of_Man only a link to London in the time zone database?
The name exists because the island has its own ISO 3166 code, IM, and the database lists a zone for each such code. Its entry points to Europe/London instead of carrying rules of its own, and Europe/Guernsey and Europe/Jersey are built the same way. So every historical offset the database gives for the island, back to the First World War, is London's record copied across, not a Manx one.
Did the Isle of Man keep summer time all year from 1968 to 1971?
The United Kingdom did, as an experiment, before the debate of 1971 ended it. The time zone database shows the island on UTC+1 throughout 1969 and 1970, but it takes that from London's history. The sources on file do not say whether Manx law followed the experiment on its own terms.