Time Zones| Zone areas | Time now | January 2026 | July 2026 | Largest cities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaliningrad | --:-- | UTC+2 | UTC+2 | Kaliningrad, Chernyakhovsk, Sovetsk, Baltiysk |
| Moscow, Volgograd, Kirov | --:-- | UTC+3 | UTC+3 | Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Nizhniy Novgorod, Kazan |
| Samara, Saratov, Ulyanovsk, Astrakhan | --:-- | UTC+4 | UTC+4 | Samara, Tolyatti, Izhevsk, Syzran |
| Yekaterinburg | --:-- | UTC+5 | UTC+5 | Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Ufa, Perm |
| Omsk | --:-- | UTC+6 | UTC+6 | Omsk, Tara, Kalachinsk, Isil’kul’ |
| Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Barnaul, Tomsk, Novokuznetsk | --:-- | UTC+7 | UTC+7 | Novosibirsk, Berdsk, Iskitim, Kuybyshev |
| Irkutsk | --:-- | UTC+8 | UTC+8 | Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, Bratsk, Angarsk |
| Chita, Yakutsk, Khandyga | --:-- | UTC+9 | UTC+9 | Chita, Krasnokamensk, Borzya, Petrovsk-Zabaykal’skiy |
| Vladivostok, Ust-Nera | --:-- | UTC+10 | UTC+10 | Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Ussuriysk |
| Sakhalin, Magadan, Srednekolymsk | --:-- | UTC+11 | UTC+11 | Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Korsakov, Kholmsk, Okha |
| Kamchatka, Anadyr | --:-- | UTC+12 | UTC+12 | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk |
How many times does Russia have?
The IANA database lists 26 separate zone areas for Russia. Grouped by the time they actually show through 2026, that makes 11 different clocks, listed above. The offsets in use run from UTC+2 to UTC+12 in January.
None of them changes its clocks during the year.
Planning across the country
When you fix a call or a broadcast for people in several parts of Russia, give the time with its zone, or use the converter to show every zone at once.
Where most people are
Measured by the people living in towns of 15,000 or more (GeoNames figures), the busiest clock in Russia is the one kept in Moscow, UTC+3 in January: about 62 million people, or 61% of the total across all the zone areas. Next comes the clock of Yekaterinburg (UTC+5) with about 15 million. At the other end, 3 of the 11 clocks each cover less than 1% of those people.
A worked example
When it is 9:00 am in Moscow in January, it is 8:00 am in Kaliningrad, 10:00 am in Samara, 11:00 am in Yekaterinburg, 12:00 pm in Omsk, 1:00 pm in Krasnoyarsk, 2:00 pm in Irkutsk, 3:00 pm in Yakutsk, 4:00 pm in Khabarovsk, 5:00 pm in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
The widest gap inside the country
The two clocks that are farthest apart differ by 10 hours in January, and by the same amount in July. On the map, the main cities run from Kaliningrad at about 20.5° east to Anadyr at about 177.5° east. By the sun alone those two are about 10 hours 28 minutes apart.
The sun across Russia
Clocks are set by law, but the sun keeps its own time. In Kaliningrad, the most westerly of the main cities (about 20.5° east), the sun is highest at about 12:38 pm by the clock in January. In Anadyr, the most easterly (about 177.5° east), it is highest at about 12:10 pm. The closer that figure is to 12:00, the better the clock fits the daylight in that city. From north to south the length of the day differs too: around 21 June the sun is up for about 21 hours 43 minutes in Anadyr and about 15 hours 48 minutes in Astrakhan.
Russia and the rest of the world
When it is 12:00 noon in Moscow, it is 2:30 pm in India; 9:00 am in London in January and 10:00 am in July; 4:00 am in New York in January and 5:00 am in July. Other parts of Russia are earlier or later than that by the amounts in the table at the top of this page.