South Korea · KST
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Jeju City, South Korea runs on UTC+9. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+9 — daylight saving time is not observed. There is a 13-hour difference between Jeju City and New York. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with New York, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. There is a 8-hour difference between Jeju City and London. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 17:00–18:00 in Jeju City lines up with 09:00–10:00 in London. Jeju City and Tokyo currently share the same clock. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 9 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–18:00 in Jeju City lines up with 09:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Seoul, Pyongyang, Osaka. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Jeju City.
Practical Info
Jeju City (South Korea) is home to roughly 490K people. Today brings about 14.4 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:24, sunset at 19:48. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+9 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 34° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
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South Korea
Capital
Seoul
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
KST · Asia/Seoul
Coordinates
33.50°N, 126.53°E
Currency
KRW (₩)
Calling Code
+82
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Korean
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The haenyeo of Jeju free-dive for shellfish to depths of around 10 metres, holding their breath for up to two minutes, and many are now in their sixties and seventies. UNESCO listed the practice in 2016; the number of divers has fallen from around 26,000 in the 1960s to a few thousand.
The clock: Jeju keeps UTC+9. The Seoul–Jeju air route is consistently the busiest in the world by passenger numbers.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
3h overlap