KabulAfghanistan
Current time in Kabul, Afghanistan
Friday, 25 September 2026
Afghanistan TimeUTC+04:30
⛶ Full-screen clockKabul time at a glance
- Country
- Afghanistan
- Location
- Capital city of Afghanistan
- Time zone
Asia/Kabul- UTC offset now
UTC+04:30- Current zone label
- GMT+4:30
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Kabul time guide
Why is Kabul time 30 minutes different?
UTC+04:30.- Year-round offset
- UTC+04:30, with no seasonal clock change
- Time-zone identifier
- Asia/Kabul
- Kabul and London
- 4 hours 30 minutes ahead of GMT; 3 hours 30 minutes ahead of BST
- Kabul and New York
- 9 hours 30 minutes ahead of EST; 8 hours 30 minutes ahead of EDT
Municipal Kabul
A capital organized through district directorates
Kabul Municipality publishes civic services and separate district directorates for the capital. This page uses the city record for Kabul and does not treat national or provincial totals as a city population.
Time-zone identity for Kabul
- 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.
Kabul 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 Kabul
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Thursday, 30 September 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Kabul
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.
Capital city context
About Kabul, capital of Afghanistan
Kabul is the capital of Afghanistan. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Afghanistan
- Administrative area
- Afghanistan
- Population
- 4,434,550
- Coordinates
- 34.5281° N, 69.1723° E. The elevation is 1,798 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Kabul
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Kabul. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- PaghmānKabul, Afghanistan21 km west
Asia/KabulSame local time - IstālifKabul, Afghanistan35 km north
Asia/KabulSame local time - CharikarParwan, Afghanistan54 km north
Asia/KabulSame local time - Baraki BarakLogar, Afghanistan66 km south
Asia/KabulSame local time - Jabal os SarajParwan, Afghanistan66 km north
Asia/KabulSame local time - BāzārakPanjshir, Afghanistan93 km north
Asia/KabulSame local time
Sources for Kabul 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.
- Districts DirectoratesKabul Municipality · Current municipal directory accessed 2026-09-07 · AccessedOfficial municipal structure and district-directorate context for Kabul.