Local time in Russia
Russian Federation
Current local time in Russia — this country spans 27 time zones. The clocks below update live in your browser.
Russia spans 27 IANA time zones in total; the 6 principal zones (one per UTC offset) are shown above.
Time difference — Moscow
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Differences are relative to Moscow, Russia, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Russia
- Standard label
- UTC+2 to UTC+12
- Standard offset (Moscow)
- UTC+3
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 27
- Capital
- Moscow
- IANA zones
- Asia/Anadyr, Asia/Barnaul, Asia/Chita, Asia/Irkutsk, Asia/Kamchatka, Asia/Khandyga, Asia/Krasnoyarsk, Asia/Magadan +19 more
Russia uses UTC+2 to UTC+12 as its standard time across 27 IANA zones. 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 Russia.
Sunrise and sunset in Moscow
At 55.8° north, Moscow gets 17 h 33 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 7 h 00 min around the December solstice — a difference of 10 h 33 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 08:43 | 12:41 | 16:40 | 7 h 57 min |
| 21 February | 07:42 | 12:44 | 17:46 | 10 h 04 min |
| 21 March | 06:31 | 12:38 | 18:44 | 12 h 13 min |
| 21 April | 05:11 | 12:29 | 19:47 | 14 h 35 min |
| 21 May | 04:09 | 12:27 | 20:45 | 16 h 36 min |
| 21 June | 03:45 | 12:32 | 21:19 | 17 h 33 min |
| 21 July | 04:15 | 12:37 | 20:58 | 16 h 42 min |
| 21 August | 05:13 | 12:34 | 19:54 | 14 h 41 min |
| 21 September | 06:13 | 12:24 | 18:34 | 12 h 21 min |
| 21 October | 07:12 | 12:15 | 17:17 | 10 h 05 min |
| 21 November | 08:17 | 12:16 | 16:16 | 7 h 59 min |
| 21 December | 08:58 | 12:28 | 15:58 | 7 h 00 min |
Calculated for Moscow (55.75°, 37.62°; 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 Russia (Europe/Moscow)
Russia does not change its clocks in the Europe/Moscow zone: it stays on UTC+2 to UTC+12 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.