| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −3h | Becomes −4h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −2h | Becomes −3h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | ±0h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +5h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +6h | Becomes +7h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −8h | Becomes −9h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −11h | Becomes −12h on 1 Nov |
Samara, Russia runs on UTC+4. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+4 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Samara and New York is 8 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hour a day with New York. A good time to connect: 17:00–18:00 in Samara lines up with 09:00–10:00 in New York. The time difference between Samara and London is 3 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 6 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 12:00–18:00 in Samara lines up with 09:00–15:00 in London. The time difference between Samara and Tokyo is 5 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 4 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–13:00 in Samara lines up with 14:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Baku, Dubai, Abu Dhabi. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Samara.
Samara (Russia) is home to roughly 1.1M people. Today brings about 11.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:39, sunset at 18:19. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+4 — 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+4 · Europe/Samara
Coordinates
53.20°N, 50.15°E
Currency
RUB (₽)
Calling Code
+7
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Russian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
A 37-metre-deep bunker was built under Samara in 1942 as an alternative command post if Moscow fell. It was kept secret until 1990 and is deeper than any comparable wartime shelter in Europe.
The clock: Samara keeps UTC+4, an hour ahead of Moscow — one of the few regions to have successfully argued its way out of Moscow time.
Samara lies at 50.1°E. Its time zone, UTC+4, is built around the 60°E meridian. The 9.9° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 39 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:39 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+4 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 16h 59m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 7h 32m. The swing between them is 9h 27m. 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 Samara the sun comes up earliest on 18 June at 04:11, while the latest sunset waits until 26 June at 21:11. 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 Samara that civil twilight runs about 35 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 Samara, Russia is Europe/Samara with a current UTC offset of UTC+4.
Samara has an estimated population of 1.1M and is located at coordinates 53.20°N, 50.15°E.
Samara gets 16h 59m of daylight on its longest day and 7h 32m on its shortest, averaging 12h 17m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Samara falls at about 12:39 on UTC+4 standard time, because the city sits 9.9° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Bunker for Stalin: A 37-metre-deep bunker was built under Samara in 1942 as an alternative command post if Moscow fell. It was kept secret until 1990 and is deeper than any comparable wartime shelter in Europe.