| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
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| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −11h | Becomes −12h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −10h | Becomes −11h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | −8h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | −3h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | −2h | Becomes −1h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −16h | Becomes −17h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −19h | Becomes −20h on 1 Nov |
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia runs on UTC+12. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+12 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and New York is 16 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hour a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–10:00 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky lines up with 17:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and London is 11 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with London, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. The time difference between Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 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: 12:00–18:00 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky lines up with 09:00–15:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Tarawa, Suva, Nadi. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Russia) is home to roughly 165K people. Today brings about 11.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:25, sunset at 19:05. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+12 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 53° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Russia
Capital
Moscow
Continent
Europe & Asia
Time Zone
UTC+12 · Asia/Kamchatka
Coordinates
53.02°N, 158.65°E
Currency
RUB (₽)
Calling Code
+7
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Russian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Kamchatka holds around 300 volcanoes, of which roughly 29 are active, and is one of the densest volcanic regions on Earth. Petropavlovsk sits beneath two of them, reachable only by air or sea — no road connects it to the rest of Russia.
The clock: Petropavlovsk keeps UTC+12, nine hours ahead of Moscow. It is one of the first sizeable cities in the world to see each new day.
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky lies at 201.4°W. Its time zone, UTC+12, is built around the 180°W meridian. The 21.4° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 85 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 13:25 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+12 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 16h 56m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 7h 34m. The swing between them is 9h 23m. 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 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky the sun comes up earliest on 18 June at 04:58, while the latest sunset waits until 26 June at 21:56. 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 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky that civil twilight runs about 34 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 52 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 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia is Asia/Kamchatka with a current UTC offset of UTC+12.
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky has an estimated population of 165K and is located at coordinates 53.02°N, 158.65°E.
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky gets 16h 56m of daylight on its longest day and 7h 34m on its shortest, averaging 12h 17m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky falls at about 13:25 on UTC+12 standard time, because the city sits 21.4° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Peninsula of Volcanoes: Kamchatka holds around 300 volcanoes, of which roughly 29 are active, and is one of the densest volcanic regions on Earth.