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Time in Russia

Russia has 11 time zones, from UTC+2 to UTC+12 in standard time. Russia borders 14 countries and territories, including China, Ukraine, and Poland. Its capital, Moscow, keeps Moscow Time, UTC+3 all year.

Russia and the countries around it
Moscow TimeUTC+03:00Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Nizhniy NovgorodEurope/Moscow
Novosibirsk TimeUTC+07:00Novosibirsk, Berdsk, and IskitimAsia/Novosibirsk
Yekaterinburg TimeUTC+05:00Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, and UfaAsia/Yekaterinburg
Omsk TimeUTC+06:00Omsk, Tara, and KalachinskAsia/Omsk
Samara TimeUTC+04:00Samara, Tolyatti, and IzhevskEurope/Samara
Krasnoyarsk TimeUTC+07:00Krasnoyarsk, Kemerovo, and NovokuznetskAsia/Krasnoyarsk
Volgograd TimeUTC+03:00Volgograd, Volzhsky, and KamyshinEurope/Volgograd
Saratov TimeUTC+04:00Saratov, Balakovo, and BalashovEurope/Saratov
Russia (simplified outline). Open in OpenStreetMap ↗
Population
144,478,050 GeoNames figure; the source gives no year
Total area
6,602,347 sq mi (17,100,000 km²)
Currency
Ruble (RUB)
Languages
Russian, Tatar, Kalmyk, Caucasian languages, Adyghe, Komi, Chechen, Tuvinian, Chuvash, Udmurt, Altaic languages, Mansi, Buriat, Erzya, Moksha, Mari, Bashkir, Ingush, Kabardian, Karachay-Balkar, Avaric, Yakut, Nogai
Calling code
+7
Driving side
Right
Country code (ISO)
RU
Coordinates (central point)
59.464613, 88.387472
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These coordinates mark a central point for the area, not a street address. Calling code and largest cities: GeoNames; driving side: Wikidata.

Local time in the largest cities

CityLocal time nowTime zone
MoscowUTC+3 all yearMoscow Time
Saint PetersburgUTC+3 all yearMoscow Time
NovosibirskUTC+7 all yearNovosibirsk Time
YekaterinburgUTC+5 all yearYekaterinburg Time
Nizhniy NovgorodUTC+3 all yearMoscow Time
KazanUTC+3 all yearMoscow Time
ChelyabinskUTC+5 all yearYekaterinburg Time
OmskUTC+6 all yearOmsk Time

Largest first, by the population GeoNames lists for each city (it gives no year). Districts of a larger city are left out.

Time in neighboring countries

CountryLocal time nowDifference from Russia
GeorgiaUTC+4 all year1 hour ahead
ChinaUTC+8 all year5 hours ahead
BelarusUTC+3 all yearsame time
UkraineUTC+2 in January and UTC+3 in July1 hour behind in January, same time in July
KazakhstanUTC+5 all year2 hours ahead
LatviaUTC+2 in January and UTC+3 in July1 hour behind in January, same time in July
PolandUTC+1 in January and UTC+2 in July2 hours behind in January, 1 hour behind in July
EstoniaUTC+2 in January and UTC+3 in July1 hour behind in January, same time in July
LithuaniaUTC+2 in January and UTC+3 in July1 hour behind in January, same time in July
FinlandUTC+2 in January and UTC+3 in July1 hour behind in January, same time in July
MongoliaUTC+8 all year5 hours ahead
NorwayUTC+1 in January and UTC+2 in July2 hours behind in January, 1 hour behind in July
AzerbaijanUTC+4 all year1 hour ahead
North KoreaUTC+9 all year6 hours ahead

Each country’s time is its capital’s clock, or its largest city’s; Russia’s is its capital’s. A country with several time zones has other times too.

All time zones in Russia

All 26 time-zone names, with their clocks
Time zoneLocal time and UTC offsetNext clock change
Anadyr TimeAsia/AnadyrUTC+12:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Barnaul TimeAsia/BarnaulUTC+07:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Yakutsk TimeAsia/ChitaUTC+09:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Irkutsk TimeAsia/IrkutskUTC+08:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski TimeAsia/KamchatkaUTC+12:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Yakutsk TimeAsia/KhandygaUTC+09:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Krasnoyarsk TimeAsia/KrasnoyarskUTC+07:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Magadan TimeAsia/MagadanUTC+11:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Krasnoyarsk TimeAsia/NovokuznetskUTC+07:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Novosibirsk TimeAsia/NovosibirskUTC+07:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Omsk TimeAsia/OmskUTC+06:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Sakhalin TimeAsia/SakhalinUTC+11:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Srednekolymsk TimeAsia/SrednekolymskUTC+11:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Tomsk TimeAsia/TomskUTC+07:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Vladivostok TimeAsia/Ust-NeraUTC+10:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Vladivostok TimeAsia/VladivostokUTC+10:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Yakutsk TimeAsia/YakutskUTC+09:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Yekaterinburg TimeAsia/YekaterinburgUTC+05:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Astrakhan TimeEurope/AstrakhanUTC+04:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Eastern European TimeEurope/KaliningradUTC+02:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Kirov TimeEurope/KirovUTC+03:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Moscow TimeEurope/MoscowUTC+03:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Samara TimeEurope/SamaraUTC+04:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Saratov TimeEurope/SaratovUTC+04:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Ulyanovsk TimeEurope/UlyanovskUTC+04:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.
Volgograd TimeEurope/VolgogradUTC+03:00. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.

Check the time at a point

Clock rules and political boundaries use different sources. For a location near a line, check the precise point instead of choosing a clock from a country outline.

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Areas that only touch the edge

These areas meet this one only along a sliver. Most places here are not in them; for a spot near the line, check it with the time-zone finder.