| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −5h | Becomes −6h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −4h | Becomes −5h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | −2h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +3h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +4h | Becomes +5h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −10h | Becomes −11h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −13h | Becomes −14h on 1 Nov |
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan runs on UTC+6. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+6 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Bishkek and New York is 10 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 Bishkek and London is 5 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 4 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 14:00–18:00 in Bishkek lines up with 09:00–13:00 in London. The time difference between Bishkek and Tokyo is 3 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 6 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–15:00 in Bishkek lines up with 12:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Bishkek.
Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) is home to roughly 1.1M people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:57, sunset at 18:45. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+6 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 43° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Capital
Bishkek 👑
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+6 · Asia/Bishkek
Coordinates
42.87°N, 74.59°E
Currency
KGS (som)
Calling Code
+996
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Kyrgyz, Russian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Kyrgyz Ala-Too range rises to over 4,800 metres directly south of Bishkek, close enough that the peaks fill the end of the city's main avenues. Kyrgyzstan is over 90% mountainous, and about 4% of it is permanently under glacier.
The clock: Bishkek keeps UTC+6 year-round, an hour ahead of Tashkent despite being only about five degrees further east — it sits almost on the UTC+5 meridian, so its clock runs about an hour ahead of the sun.
Bishkek lies at 74.6°E. Its time zone, UTC+6, is built around the 90°E meridian. The 15.4° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 62 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 13:02 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+6 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 21m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 1m. The swing between them is 6h 20m. 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 Bishkek the sun comes up earliest on 16 June at 05:22, while the latest sunset waits until 28 June at 20:44. 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 Bishkek that civil twilight runs about 28 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 35 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 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan is Asia/Bishkek with a current UTC offset of UTC+6.
Bishkek has an estimated population of 1.1M and is located at coordinates 42.87°N, 74.59°E. It is the capital city of Kyrgyzstan.
Bishkek gets 15h 21m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 1m on its shortest, averaging 12h 13m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Bishkek falls at about 13:02 on UTC+6 standard time, because the city sits 15.4° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Capital in the Shadow of a Wall of Rock: The Kyrgyz Ala-Too range rises to over 4,800 metres directly south of Bishkek, close enough that the peaks fill the end of the city's main avenues.