What is MSK in UTC?
Coordinated Universal Time is 3 hours behind
Moscow Time is on UTC+3:00 and Coordinated Universal Time is on UTC+0:00 right now. That gap holds all year, because both zones change their clocks together.
- Time in Moscow
- 5:13 am
- Time in the prime meridian
- 2:13 am
- Difference
- −3 h
- Next clock change
- Neither zone
Convert a time
UTC — Coordinated Universal Time
2:00 am
Wed
Daylight saving
Moscow Time
Moscow Time stays on MSK all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
Coordinated Universal Time
Coordinated Universal Time stays on UTC all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
MSK to UTC conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, converted from Moscow Time to Coordinated Universal Time. 3 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in the prime meridian, which is marked.
- 12:00 am MSK
- 9:00 pm UTC−1 day
- 1:00 am MSK
- 10:00 pm UTC−1 day
- 2:00 am MSK
- 11:00 pm UTC−1 day
- 3:00 am MSK
- 12:00 am UTC
- 4:00 am MSK
- 1:00 am UTC
- 5:00 am MSK
- 2:00 am UTC
- 6:00 am MSK
- 3:00 am UTC
- 7:00 am MSK
- 4:00 am UTC
- 8:00 am MSK
- 5:00 am UTC
- 9:00 am MSK
- 6:00 am UTC
- 10:00 am MSK
- 7:00 am UTC
- 11:00 am MSK
- 8:00 am UTC
- 12:00 pm MSK
- 9:00 am UTC
- 1:00 pm MSK
- 10:00 am UTC
- 2:00 pm MSK
- 11:00 am UTC
- 3:00 pm MSK
- 12:00 pm UTC
- 4:00 pm MSK
- 1:00 pm UTC
- 5:00 pm MSK
- 2:00 pm UTC
- 6:00 pm MSK
- 3:00 pm UTC
- 7:00 pm MSK
- 4:00 pm UTC
- 8:00 pm MSK
- 5:00 pm UTC
- 9:00 pm MSK
- 6:00 pm UTC
- 10:00 pm MSK
- 7:00 pm UTC
- 11:00 pm MSK
- 8:00 pm UTC
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm MSK, which is 9:00 am to 3:00 pm UTC. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
Moscow Time (MSK) is used in western Russia. Russia abolished daylight saving in 2011.
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is used in aviation, computing, and science worldwide. UTC never changes for daylight saving.