What time is it in Azerbaijan?

Azerbaijan stays on UTC+4:00 all year. Its offset from UTC never moves, so its relationship to places that do change shifts twice a year instead — which is usually why someone checks. Right now it is 4 hours ahead of UTC, and 9 hours ahead of New York.

Baku is 9 hours ahead of New York and 12 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 6:00 pm in Baku.

To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.

The day is 10 hours 1 minute long in Baku, and losing 2 minutes a day. The sun peaks at 12:24 pm, 24 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Baku sits 41 minutes of solar time west of UTC+4:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

The solar year swings 5 hours 46 minutes in Baku: 15 hours 3 minutes of daylight at the June solstice against 9 hours 17 minutes at the December one. Being north of the equator, its longest day falls in June — the opposite way round from the other hemisphere.

Azerbaijan has kept UTC+4:00 since Sunday, October 25, 2015, when it moved from UTC+5:00. Before that its clocks read 1 hour ahead of what they read now.

On UTC+4:00 right now, the same clock as Azerbaijan: