| 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 |
Karaganda, Kazakhstan runs on UTC+5. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+5 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Karaganda 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 Karaganda 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 Karaganda lines up with 09:00–14:00 in London. The time difference between Karaganda 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 Karaganda 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 Karaganda.
Karaganda (Kazakhstan) is home to roughly 500K people. Today brings about 11.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:06, sunset at 17:49. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+5 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 50° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Kazakhstan
Capital
Astana
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+5 · Asia/Almaty
Coordinates
49.80°N, 73.11°E
Currency
KZT (₸)
Calling Code
+7
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Kazakh, Russian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Karaganda's coal basin was developed largely by Gulag labour, and Karlag, the camp system around it, covered some 17,600 square kilometres at its peak. Many deportees stayed after release, which is why the city is unusually multi-ethnic.
The clock: Karaganda keeps UTC+5. Baikonur cosmodrome, from which every crewed Soviet and Russian launch has flown, is elsewhere on the Kazakh steppe, in Kyzylorda Region.
Karaganda lies at 73.1°E. Its time zone, UTC+5, is built around the 75°E meridian. The 1.9° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 8 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:08 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 16h 20m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 6m. The swing between them is 8h 14m. 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 Karaganda the sun comes up earliest on 17 June at 03:58, while the latest sunset waits until 27 June at 20:20. 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 Karaganda that civil twilight runs about 32 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 44 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 Karaganda, Kazakhstan is Asia/Almaty with a current UTC offset of UTC+5.
Karaganda has an estimated population of 500K and is located at coordinates 49.80°N, 73.11°E.
Karaganda gets 16h 20m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 6m on its shortest, averaging 12h 16m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Karaganda falls at about 12:08 on UTC+5 standard time, because the city sits 1.9° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City Built by Prisoners: Karaganda's coal basin was developed largely by Gulag labour, and Karlag, the camp system around it, covered some 17,600 square kilometres at its peak.