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Time in Russia now

4:00PMMSK

MSKUTC+3+8 h vs New York (you)Europe/Moscow

No clock changes: Russia stays on MSK (UTC+3) all year.

Time zones in Russia now

ZoneTime nowOffset nowRulesExample
Eastern European Standard Time 3:00 PM EET UTC+2 EET (UTC+2) all year Kaliningrad · MSK-01 - Kaliningrad
Moscow Standard Time 4:00 PM MSK UTC+3 MSK (UTC+3) all year Moscow · MSK+00 - Moscow area; MSK+00 - Kirov; MSK+00 - Volgograd
Samara time 5:00 PM UTC+4 UTC+4 UTC+4 all year Samara · MSK+01 - Astrakhan; MSK+01 - Saratov; MSK+01 - Ulyanovsk; MSK+01 - Samara, Udmurtia
Yekaterinburg time 6:00 PM UTC+5 UTC+5 UTC+5 all year Yekaterinburg · MSK+02 - Urals
Omsk time 7:00 PM UTC+6 UTC+6 UTC+6 all year Omsk · MSK+03 - Omsk
Novosibirsk time 8:00 PM UTC+7 UTC+7 UTC+7 all year Novosibirsk · MSK+04 - Novosibirsk; MSK+04 - Altai; MSK+04 - Tomsk; MSK+04 - Kemerovo; MSK+04 - Krasnoyarsk area
Irkutsk time 9:00 PM UTC+8 UTC+8 UTC+8 all year Irkutsk · MSK+05 - Irkutsk, Buryatia
Chita time 10:00 PM UTC+9 UTC+9 UTC+9 all year Chita · MSK+06 - Zabaykalsky; MSK+06 - Lena River; MSK+06 - Tomponsky, Ust-Maysky
Khabarovsk time 11:00 PM UTC+10 UTC+10 UTC+10 all year Khabarovsk · MSK+07 - Amur River; MSK+07 - Oymyakonsky
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk time 12:00 AM UTC+11 UTC+11 UTC+11 all year Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk · MSK+08 - Magadan; MSK+08 - Sakhalin Island; MSK+08 - Sakha (E), N Kuril Is
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky time 1:00 AM UTC+12 UTC+12 UTC+12 all year Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky · MSK+09 - Kamchatka; MSK+09 - Bering Sea

Time zone in Russia

Russia has 11 different clock settings under the current rules, from EET (UTC+2) in Kaliningrad to UTC+12 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The clock at the top shows the capital, Moscow, on Moscow Standard Time (MSK, UTC+3) all year.

The IANA time zone database divides Russia into 26 zones. It needs more zones than there are clock settings because it also records history: two regions that keep the same time today get separate entries if their clocks differed at any point since 1970, which is why, for example, Europe/Moscow, Europe/Kirov and Europe/Volgograd are separate.

Moscow lies at 37.6° east, where mean solar time is UTC+2:30 (four minutes per degree of longitude). The clocks run 30 min ahead of the sun, so on average the sun is highest at about 12:30 PM.

Daylight saving time in Russia

No. None of Russia’s regions changes its clocks under the current rules.

Moscow last used daylight saving time in 2010, after 29 years with summer time since 1970.

Clock history of Russia

The record begins with local mean time (clocks set by the sun, UTC+2:30 in Moscow), which ended on December 31, 1879, when MMT (UTC+2:30) replaced it. Between 1970 and 2024, a daylight saving period began in 29 of the 55 years, most recently in 2010. The first summer time in the record dates from 1917. The table summarises the clocks of Moscow year by year since 1970, from the tzdata entry Europe/Moscow.

YearsClocksAbbreviations
1970–1980UTC+3 all yearMSK
1981–1990UTC+3 in winter, UTC+4 in summerMSK, MSD
1991UTC+3 until September 29, then UTC+2MSK, EEST, EET
1992UTC+2 in winter, UTC+4 in summer; also UTC+3 for part of the yearEET, MSK, MSD
1993–2010UTC+3 in winter, UTC+4 in summerMSK, MSD
2011UTC+3 until March 27, then UTC+4MSK
2012–2013UTC+4 all yearMSK
2014UTC+4 until October 26, then UTC+3MSK
2015 onwardUTC+3 all yearMSK

Changes of the winter (standard) offset since 1970: Sunday, March 27, 2011, from UTC+3 to UTC+4; Sunday, October 26, 2014, from UTC+4 to UTC+3.

Rows from 2027 on follow the rules in tzdata 2026f; a government decision would change them in the next release.

Convert Russia time

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Time difference between Russia and major cities

CityLocal time nowRussia vs city nowJanuaryJulyOffice overlap Jan / Jul
New York 8:00 AM Tue, Nov 3 +8 h +8 h +7 h none / 1 h
Los Angeles 5:00 AM Tue, Nov 3 +11 h +11 h +10 h none / none
London 1:00 PM Tue, Nov 3 +3 h +3 h +2 h 5 h / 6 h
Berlin 2:00 PM Tue, Nov 3 +2 h +2 h +1 h 6 h / 7 h
Dubai 5:00 PM Tue, Nov 3 −1 h −1 h −1 h 7 h / 7 h
New Delhi 6:30 PM Tue, Nov 3 −2 h 30 min −2 h 30 min −2 h 30 min 5 h 30 min / 5 h 30 min
Singapore 9:00 PM Tue, Nov 3 −5 h −5 h −5 h 3 h / 3 h
Beijing 9:00 PM Tue, Nov 3 −5 h −5 h −5 h 3 h / 3 h
Tokyo 10:00 PM Tue, Nov 3 −6 h −6 h −6 h 2 h / 2 h

Office hours and calls

With JavaScript on, this line shows how Russia’s office hours overlap yours today.

A 9-to-5 day in Moscow overlaps New York’s for 0 min in January (3:00 AM–3:00 AM Moscow time), 1 h in July. At 9:00 AM in Moscow it is 1:00 AM in New York.

A 9-to-5 day in Moscow overlaps London’s for 5 h in January (12:00 PM–5:00 PM Moscow time), 6 h in July. At 9:00 AM in Moscow it is 6:00 AM in London.

A 9-to-5 day in Moscow overlaps New Delhi’s for 5 h 30 min in January (9:00 AM–2:30 PM Moscow time) and the same in July. At 9:00 AM in Moscow it is 11:30 AM in New Delhi.

Neighbouring time zones

The nearest large cities on a different clock, with the straight-line distance from Moscow and the difference now.

CityDistanceTime nowTheir clock vs here
Kharkiv Ukraine 650 km 3:00 PM EET −1 h
Samara Russia 860 km 5:00 PM UTC+4 +1 h
Kaliningrad Russia 1,090 km 3:00 PM EET −1 h
Warsaw Poland 1,150 km 2:00 PM CET −2 h
Ufa Russia 1,170 km 6:00 PM UTC+5 +2 h

Same clock as Russia

These places keep exactly the same time as Russia all year under the current rules (zones Africa/Nairobi, Asia/Amman, Asia/Baghdad, Asia/Damascus, Asia/Qatar and 6 more).

Cities in Russia

Russia at a glance

Questions

What time is it in Russia now?
The clock at the top of this page shows it to the second. Russia is on UTC+3 all year, 8 hours ahead of New York in January and 7 hours ahead of New York in July.
How many time zones does Russia have?
Under the current rules, 11 clock settings (11 standard offsets), which the IANA database records as 26 zones because of their different histories.

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