Local time in Turkmenistan
Republic of Turkmenistan
Current local time in Turkmenistan (UTC+5). The clock below updates live in your browser.
Time difference — Ashgabat
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Differences are relative to Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Turkmenistan
- Standard label
- UTC+5
- Standard offset (Ashgabat)
- UTC+5
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- Ashgabat
- IANA zones
- Asia/Ashgabat
Turkmenistan uses UTC+5 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 Turkmenistan.
Sunrise and sunset in Ashgabat
At 38.0° north, Ashgabat gets 14 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 9 h 32 min around the December solstice — a difference of 5 h 16 min.
On standard time the sun is highest at about 13:06 on average — 66 minutes after 12:00 — because the clocks are set ahead of local solar time, which gives long, light evenings.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 08:19 | 13:18 | 18:17 | 9 h 58 min |
| 21 February | 07:51 | 13:21 | 18:52 | 11 h 01 min |
| 21 March | 07:10 | 13:15 | 19:19 | 12 h 09 min |
| 21 April | 06:24 | 13:06 | 19:48 | 13 h 23 min |
| 21 May | 05:53 | 13:04 | 20:15 | 14 h 22 min |
| 21 June | 05:45 | 13:09 | 20:33 | 14 h 48 min |
| 21 July | 06:01 | 13:13 | 20:26 | 14 h 25 min |
| 21 August | 06:27 | 13:11 | 19:54 | 13 h 27 min |
| 21 September | 06:54 | 13:01 | 19:07 | 12 h 14 min |
| 21 October | 07:21 | 12:52 | 18:23 | 11 h 02 min |
| 21 November | 07:54 | 12:53 | 17:53 | 9 h 59 min |
| 21 December | 08:19 | 13:05 | 17:51 | 9 h 32 min |
Calculated for Ashgabat (37.95°, 58.38°; 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 Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan does not change its clocks: it stays on UTC+5 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.