Current local time in South Korea
Current time in South Korea
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Asia/Seoul · UTC+9
South Korea sits at UTC+9 on Korea Standard Time (KST) and stays there all year, with no seasonal clock change. South Korea reads identically to Japan. North Korea briefly moved to UTC+8:30 in 2015 before returning to UTC+9 in 2018. Above you can see the live local time along with today's date and the day of the week, read from the Asia/Seoul zone.
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Time zone facts
- Standard time
- Korea Standard Time (KST), UTC+9
- Daylight saving
- Not observed; the offset is the same all year
- IANA timezone
- Asia/Seoul
Common questions
- What time is it in South Korea right now?
- The clock at the top of this page shows the current time in South Korea, updated every second, with today's date and the day of the week beneath it. Because South Korea is always UTC+9, the reading is UTC shifted by that fixed amount.
- What is the UTC offset in South Korea?
- UTC+9, all year: Korea Standard Time, abbreviated KST. There is no summer variant to remember.
- Does South Korea observe daylight saving time?
- No. South Korea stays on Korea Standard Time (UTC+9) throughout the year, so the offset to UTC never moves.
- What is the IANA timezone for South Korea?
- Asia/Seoul. That is the identifier to use in code (a database column, a cron schedule, an Intl.DateTimeFormat call), because it carries the full history of offset and daylight-saving changes for South Korea rather than one fixed number.