Local time · Russia
What time is it in Russia?
12:46:55PM
- UTC offset
- UTC+3:00
- Daylight saving
- Not observed
- Time zones
- 11
- Versus New York
- 8 hours ahead
Russia does not change its clocks
Russia stays on UTC+3:00 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 3 hours ahead of UTC, and 8 hours ahead of New York.
All 11 zones
Russia spans 11 time zones, so “the time in Russia” depends where. Each has its own page. The IANA database lists 26 zone entries for Russia; the others are historical splits that now keep the same clock as one of these.
- MoscowMSK+00 - Moscow area · 12:46 pm · UTC+3:00
- KaliningradMSK-01 - Kaliningrad · 11:46 am · UTC+2:00
- SamaraMSK+01 - Samara, Udmurtia · 1:46 pm · UTC+4:00
- YekaterinburgMSK+02 - Urals · 2:46 pm · UTC+5:00
- OmskMSK+03 - Omsk · 3:46 pm · UTC+6:00
- NovosibirskMSK+04 - Novosibirsk · 4:46 pm · UTC+7:00
- IrkutskMSK+05 - Irkutsk, Buryatia · 5:46 pm · UTC+8:00
- ChitaMSK+06 - Zabaykalsky · 6:46 pm · UTC+9:00
- VladivostokMSK+07 - Amur River · 7:46 pm · UTC+10:00
- SakhalinMSK+08 - Sakhalin Island · 8:46 pm · UTC+11:00
- KamchatkaMSK+09 - Kamchatka · 9:46 pm · UTC+12:00
Working with Russia from the US
Moscow is 8 hours ahead of New York and 11 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 5:00 pm in Moscow.
To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.
The sun in Moscow today
- Sunrise
- 8:00 am
- Sunset
- 4:26 pm
- Day length
- 8 hours 26 minutes
- Solar noon
- 12:13 pm
The day is 8 hours 26 minutes long in Moscow, and losing 4 minutes a day. The sun peaks at 12:13 pm, 13 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Moscow sits 30 minutes of solar time west of UTC+3:00’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 10 hours 33 minutes in Moscow: 17 hours 33 minutes of daylight at the June solstice against 7 hours at the December one. Being north of the equator, its longest day falls in June — the opposite way round from the other hemisphere.
Russia has kept UTC+3:00 since Sunday, October 26, 2014, when it moved from UTC+4:00. Before that its clocks read 1 hour ahead of what they read now.
Other countries
On UTC+3:00 right now, the same clock as Russia: