| 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 |
Yekaterinburg, Russia runs on UTC+5. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+5 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Yekaterinburg 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 Yekaterinburg 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 Yekaterinburg lines up with 09:00–14:00 in London. The time difference between Yekaterinburg 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 Yekaterinburg 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 Yekaterinburg.
Yekaterinburg (Russia) is home to roughly 1.5M people. Today brings about 11.6 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:58, sunset at 18:35. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+5 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 57° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Russia
Capital
Moscow
Continent
Europe & Asia
Time Zone
UTC+5 · Asia/Yekaterinburg
Coordinates
56.84°N, 60.65°E
Currency
RUB (₽)
Calling Code
+7
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Russian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
A marker about 17 km from Yekaterinburg sits on the Europe–Asia boundary along the Ural watershed. Visitors stand with one foot on each continent, which is about as literal as intercontinental travel gets.
The clock: Yekaterinburg keeps UTC+5, two hours ahead of Moscow, and is Russia's fourth-largest city.
Yekaterinburg lies at 60.6°E. Its time zone, UTC+5, is built around the 75°E meridian. The 14.4° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 57 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:57 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 17h 51m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 6h 45m. The swing between them is 11h 6m. Close to the Arctic or Antarctic circle, the year swings hard between long light and long dark.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Yekaterinburg the sun comes up earliest on 19 June at 04:03, while the latest sunset waits until 25 June at 21:55. 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 Yekaterinburg that civil twilight runs about 38 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 67 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 Yekaterinburg, Russia is Asia/Yekaterinburg with a current UTC offset of UTC+5.
Yekaterinburg has an estimated population of 1.5M and is located at coordinates 56.84°N, 60.65°E.
Yekaterinburg gets 17h 51m of daylight on its longest day and 6h 45m on its shortest, averaging 12h 20m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Yekaterinburg falls at about 12:57 on UTC+5 standard time, because the city sits 14.4° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Border Between Two Continents: A marker about 17 km from Yekaterinburg sits on the Europe–Asia boundary along the Ural watershed. Visitors stand with one foot on each continent, which is about as literal as intercontinental travel gets.