Current local time in Pakistan
Current time in Pakistan
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Asia/Karachi · UTC+5
The current time in Pakistan is Pakistan Standard Time (PKT), UTC+5. There is no summer-time switch to allow for, so the offset is the same all year. A single zone covers the country, sitting exactly half an hour behind neighbouring India. The clock above ticks once a second in the Asia/Karachi zone.
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Time zone facts
- Standard time
- Pakistan Standard Time (PKT), UTC+5
- Daylight saving
- Not observed; the offset is the same all year
- IANA timezone
- Asia/Karachi
Common questions
- What time is it in Pakistan right now?
- The clock at the top of this page shows the current time in Pakistan, updated every second, with today's date and the day of the week beneath it. Because Pakistan is always UTC+5, the reading is UTC shifted by that fixed amount.
- What is the UTC offset in Pakistan?
- UTC+5, all year: Pakistan Standard Time, abbreviated PKT. There is no summer variant to remember.
- Does Pakistan observe daylight saving time?
- No. Pakistan stays on Pakistan Standard Time (UTC+5) throughout the year, so the offset to UTC never moves.
- What is the IANA timezone for Pakistan?
- Asia/Karachi. 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 Pakistan rather than one fixed number.