Warszawa
Wednesday · September · 30 · 2026
DST“The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.”
— Dennis Gabor
Sun & daylight
The sun rises at 06:35 and sets at 18:18 in Warsaw today, giving 11h 42m of daylight. Solar noon is at 12:27.
06:35
Sunrise
12:27
Noon
18:18
Sunset
Midnight
00:27
Sunrise
06:35
Solar noon
12:27
Sunset
18:18
Solar midnight
00:27
Daylight
11h 42m
Daylight runs about 16h 46m around the June solstice and 7h 42m around the December solstice.
Daylight saving time
Warsaw observes daylight saving time. In 2026, clocks move forward to UTC+2 on March 29 and move back to UTC+1 on October 25. Warsaw is currently on daylight saving time.
Mar 29
Forward · UTC+2
Oct 25
Back · UTC+1
Sep 30
Today
The shaded band marks the daylight saving period.
Public holidays
Poland has no public holidays in September 2026.
Architecture
Warsaw was flattened in the Second World War and rebuilt from paintings and memory, so its historic centre is a careful reconstruction rather than a survival. What went up afterward carries the marks of who was in charge, a Soviet gift tower and then the glass of the years after 1989.
Completed 2017
Daniel Libeskind
A residential tower near the centre, its west face swept up in a single curve. Daniel Libeskind shaped the profile as a soaring, asymmetric sail he likened to an eagle's wing, set against the rectilinear Soviet tower a few blocks away. The curved wall is the building's whole gesture, and the other faces are left plain. It put a piece of deliberate iconography into a skyline that had argued with one tower for sixty years.
Completed 2016
Jean-Paul Viguier
An office tower west of the centre, a glass shaft with gently curved faces. Jean-Paul Viguier drew the two long sides as hyperbolic curves so the tower narrows and swells, meeting the ground at a lower pair of wings around a public square. The convex glass catches light differently along its height. It was the piece meant to signal the business city rising away from the Soviet tower.
Completed 2013
Rainer Mahlamäki
A museum on the site of the wartime ghetto, facing the monument to its uprising. Rainer Mahlamäki set a calm glass box around a curving canyon that splits the interior in two, its undulating walls meant to recall the parting of a sea. The plain exterior leaves the drama entirely inside. It answers a monument across the square with a building that keeps its weight out of sight until you enter.
Completed 1955
Lev Rudnev
A tiered tower at the centre of the city, the tallest building in Poland, given by the Soviet Union. Lev Rudnev built it as a Stalinist skyscraper of setbacks and spires, dressed in details copied from Polish Renaissance masonry to soften an imposed gift. It stands alone on a vast plaza cleared around it, so nothing modern crowds its base. It remains the most visible and most resented object on the skyline.
Completed 1696
Augustyn Locci
A royal summer palace on the southern edge of the city, built for Jan III Sobieski. Augustyn Locci laid it out as a compact Baroque villa that later kings extended into wings, its garden front loaded with carving that casts the king as a Roman victor. It came through the war intact, one of the few great Warsaw buildings that did. It is the city's clearest piece of the Baroque the reconstructed centre only copies.