BalkhAfghanistan
Current time in Balkh, Afghanistan
Tuesday, 11 August 2026
Afghanistan TimeUTC+04:30
⛶ Full-screen clockBalkh time at a glance
- Country
- Afghanistan
- Location
- City in Afghanistan
- Time zone
Asia/Kabul- UTC offset now
UTC+04:30- Current zone label
- GMT+4:30
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Weather now
Weather in Balkh
Conditions near Balkh and a 3-day forecast. Local conditions can differ across large urban areas, mountains and coastlines.
Sunny
- Feels like
- 24°C
- Humidity
- 14%
- Wind
- 15.1 km/h SW
- Recent precipitation
- 0 mm
3-day forecast
- Sunny29°C to 41°C0% chance of precipitationWind up to 23.4 km/h
- Sunny29°C to 41°C0% chance of precipitationWind up to 18 km/h
- Sunny29°C to 43°C0% chance of precipitationWind up to 16.6 km/h
Forecast valid from 05:00 local time. Updated 2026-08-11T00:34:24.860Z; refresh due by 2026-08-11T00:49:24.860Z.
Time-zone identity for Balkh
- IANA zone
Asia/Kabul- UTC offset now
- UTC+04:30
- Current zone label
- GMT+4:30
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Balkh is currently 4 hours 30 minutes ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Balkh
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Monday, 16 August 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Balkh
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Asia/Kabul, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the previous 5 years.
Next 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the next 5 years.
Dates are calculated from IANA time-zone rules. The calculation checks for offset changes throughout the displayed period and resolves each change to the nearest second.
Location context
About Balkh
Location details for Balkh in Afghanistan.
- Administrative area
- Afghanistan
- Population
- 114,883
- Coordinates
- 36.7563° N, 66.8972° E. The elevation is 348 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Balkh
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Balkh. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- Mazār-e SharīfBalkh, Afghanistan20 km east
Asia/KabulSame local time - KhulmBalkh, Afghanistan72 km east
Asia/KabulSame local time - ShibirghānJowzjan, Afghanistan102 km west
Asia/KabulSame local time - Sar-e PulSar-e Pol Province, Afghanistan105 km southwest
Asia/KabulSame local time - QarqīnJowzjan, Afghanistan106 km northwest
Asia/KabulSame local time - Sang-e ChārakSar-e Pol Province, Afghanistan109 km south
Asia/KabulSame local time
Sources for Balkh time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 4 sources
- GeoNames cities15000GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · AccessedCity and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
- IANA Time Zone DatabaseInternet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · AccessedTime-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
- Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · AccessedEnglish display names for countries, currencies and languages.
- Weather and Geolocation APIWeatherAPI.com · Forecast API v1; free plan · WeatherAPI.com terms; commercial and non-commercial use permitted by plan · AccessedCurrent weather conditions, the next 24 hours and a three-day forecast.