Local time in South Korea
Republic of Korea
Current local time in South Korea (KST (UTC+9)). The clock below updates live in your browser.
Time difference — Seoul
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Differences are relative to Seoul, South Korea, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for South Korea
- Standard label
- KST (UTC+9)
- Standard offset (Seoul)
- UTC+9
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- Seoul
- IANA zones
- Asia/Seoul
South Korea uses KST (UTC+9) as its standard time. Clocks stay on the same offset all year round — daylight saving time is not observed. Times on this page are computed in your browser from the IANA time zone database, so they always match the real current time in South Korea.
Sunrise and sunset in Seoul
At 37.6° north, Seoul gets 14 h 46 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 9 h 34 min around the December solstice — a difference of 5 h 12 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 07:44 | 12:44 | 17:43 | 9 h 59 min |
| 21 February | 07:16 | 12:47 | 18:17 | 11 h 02 min |
| 21 March | 06:36 | 12:40 | 18:44 | 12 h 09 min |
| 21 April | 05:51 | 12:31 | 19:12 | 13 h 22 min |
| 21 May | 05:20 | 12:30 | 19:40 | 14 h 20 min |
| 21 June | 05:12 | 12:34 | 19:57 | 14 h 46 min |
| 21 July | 05:27 | 12:39 | 19:51 | 14 h 24 min |
| 21 August | 05:53 | 12:36 | 19:19 | 13 h 26 min |
| 21 September | 06:19 | 12:26 | 18:33 | 12 h 14 min |
| 21 October | 06:46 | 12:17 | 17:49 | 11 h 03 min |
| 21 November | 07:18 | 12:19 | 17:19 | 10 h 01 min |
| 21 December | 07:44 | 12:31 | 17:18 | 9 h 34 min |
Calculated for Seoul (37.56°, 126.99°; coordinates from Wikidata) with the standard solar-position formulas used by NOAA, for a sea-level horizon. Results are accurate to about a minute; hills, buildings and altitude shift what you actually see. Times change by only a minute or two from year to year.
Daylight saving time in South Korea
South Korea does not change its clocks: it stays on KST (UTC+9) all year in 2026 and 2027.
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.