Asia/Almaty Time Zone

Asia/Almaty is West Kazakhstan Time, UTC+05:00. The clock below shows the time there now.

West Kazakhstan TimeUTC+05:00Local time nowAsia/Almaty
Asia/AqtobeAsia/BarnaulAsia/BishkekAsia/QostanayAsia/QyzylordaAsia/SamarkandAsia/Urumqi
Asia/Almaty and its neighbors (simplified outlines). Open in OpenStreetMap ↗
IANA identifier
Asia/Almaty
Coordinates (central point)
48.006937, 74.829354

These coordinates mark a central point for the area, not a street address.

Largest cities on this clock

Almaty, Astana, Shymkent, Karagandy, Taraz, Pavlodar, Ust-Kamenogorsk, and Semey, in Kazakhstan, keep West Kazakhstan Time, the time shown above.

Largest first, by the population GeoNames lists for each city (it gives no year).

Countries and territories, largest first

These countries and territories use this time zone. The list doesn’t settle any border question. Country populations are GeoNames figures. GeoNames gives no year for them, so they are not current estimates and may differ in age from country to country.

  1. Kazakhstan18,276,499 people

Bordering areas, nearest first

Distances are straight lines between map points.

  1. Asia/Bishkek469 mi south
  2. Asia/Barnaul470 mi northeast
  3. Asia/Tashkent515 mi south
  4. Asia/Novosibirsk549 mi north
  5. Asia/Omsk557 mi north
  6. Asia/Qostanay562 mi northwest
  7. Asia/Qyzylorda572 mi west
  8. Asia/Aqtobe708 mi west
  9. Asia/Samarkand723 mi southwest
  10. Asia/Urumqi741 mi southeast
  11. Asia/Yekaterinburg981 mi north
  12. Asia/Shanghai1,488 mi southeast

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.

Boundary data adapted from © OpenStreetMap contributors, under ODbL.

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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.