| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −4h | Becomes −5h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −3h | Becomes −4h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | −1h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +4h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +5h | Becomes +6h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −9h | Becomes −10h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −12h | Becomes −13h on 1 Nov |
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan runs on UTC+5. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+5 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Ashgabat and New York is 9 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with New York, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. The time difference between Ashgabat and London is 4 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 5 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 13:00–18:00 in Ashgabat lines up with 09:00–14:00 in London. The time difference between Ashgabat and Tokyo is 4 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 5 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–14:00 in Ashgabat lines up with 13:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Karachi, Astana, Lahore. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Ashgabat.
Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) is home to roughly 1.0M people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:01, sunset at 18:51. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+5 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 38° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Capital
Ashgabat 👑
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+5 · Asia/Ashgabat
Coordinates
37.95°N, 58.38°E
Currency
TMT (m)
Calling Code
+993
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Turkmen
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Ashgabat holds the Guinness record for the highest density of white marble buildings — over 540 of them, faced with roughly 4.5 million square metres of imported marble. It was rebuilt largely from scratch after a 1948 earthquake destroyed almost everything.
The clock: Ashgabat keeps UTC+5. The Darvaza gas crater, burning since 1971 a few hours north, is the country's other well-known light source.
Ashgabat lies at 58.4°E. Its time zone, UTC+5, is built around the 75°E meridian. The 16.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 66 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 13:06 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+5 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 48m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 32m. The swing between them is 5h 16m. This is the latitude band where the difference between summer and winter evenings is most obvious.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Ashgabat the sun comes up earliest on 14 June at 05:43, while the latest sunset waits until 30 June at 20:33. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Ashgabat that civil twilight runs about 26 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 31 minutes at the solstice.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Ashgabat, Turkmenistan is Asia/Ashgabat with a current UTC offset of UTC+5.
Ashgabat has an estimated population of 1.0M and is located at coordinates 37.95°N, 58.38°E. It is the capital city of Turkmenistan.
Ashgabat gets 14h 48m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 32m on its shortest, averaging 12h 12m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Ashgabat falls at about 13:06 on UTC+5 standard time, because the city sits 16.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Whitest City on Earth: Ashgabat holds the Guinness record for the highest density of white marble buildings — over 540 of them, faced with roughly 4.5 million square metres of imported marble.