Time Zones| Zone areas | Time now | January 2026 | July 2026 | Largest cities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tashkent, Samarkand | --:-- | UTC+5 | UTC+5 | Tashkent, Andijon, Namangan, Fergana |
How many times does Uzbekistan have?
The IANA database lists 2 separate zone areas for Uzbekistan. Grouped by the time they actually show through 2026, that makes one clock for the whole country, listed above. Every area is on UTC+5 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 Uzbekistan, give the time with its zone, or use the converter to show every zone at once.
Where most people are
The towns of 15,000 people or more in Uzbekistan hold about 11 million people between them (GeoNames figures), and all of them read the same clock: UTC+5. The largest is Tashkent.
Why several areas, if the clock is the same?
Every part of Uzbekistan shows the same time today. The time zone database still keeps 2 separate entries, because at some point in the past these places kept different times, or changed their clocks on different dates. Software needs the separate entries to work out old dates correctly. For today and for the future, you can treat the country as one time zone.
The sun across Uzbekistan
Clocks are set by law, but the sun keeps its own time. In Samarkand, the most westerly of the main cities (about 67° east), the sun is highest at about 12:32 pm by the clock in January. In Tashkent, the most easterly (about 69.2° east), it is highest at about 12:23 pm. The closer that figure is to 12:00, the better the clock fits the daylight in that city.
Uzbekistan and the rest of the world
When it is 12:00 noon in Tashkent, it is 12:30 pm in India; 7:00 am in London in January and 8:00 am in July; 2:00 am in New York in January and 3:00 am in July. Other parts of Uzbekistan are earlier or later than that by the amounts in the table at the top of this page.