BakuAzerbaijan
Current time in Baku, Azerbaijan
Thursday, 24 September 2026
Azerbaijan Standard TimeUTC+04:00
⛶ Full-screen clockBaku time at a glance
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Location
- Capital city of Azerbaijan
- Time zone
Asia/Baku- UTC offset now
UTC+04:00- Current zone label
- GMT+4
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Baku time guide
Does Baku change its clocks?
UTC+04:00.- Year-round offset
- UTC+04:00, with no seasonal clock change
- Time-zone identifier
- Asia/Baku
- Baku and London
- 4 hours ahead of GMT; 3 hours ahead of BST
- Baku and New York
- 9 hours ahead of EST; 8 hours ahead of EDT
City and administrative units
Read Baku figures by the published boundary
Azerbaijan’s State Statistical Committee publishes population by economic region, administrative-territorial unit and urban settlement. Those categories are not interchangeable, so Baku comparisons should retain the boundary and reference date attached to each official table.
Time-zone identity for Baku
- IANA zone
Asia/Baku- UTC offset now
- UTC+04:00
- Current zone label
- GMT+4
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Baku is currently 4 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Baku
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Wednesday, 29 September 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Baku
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Asia/Baku, 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 Baku, capital of Azerbaijan
Baku is the capital of Azerbaijan. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Azerbaijan
- Administrative area
- Baki, Azerbaijan
- Population
- 2,351,300
- Coordinates
- 40.3777° N, 49.8920° E. The elevation is -23 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Baku
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Baku. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- QaraçuxurBaki, Azerbaijan7.2 km east
Asia/BakuSame local time - BakıxanovBaki, Azerbaijan7.8 km northeast
Asia/BakuSame local time - SabunçuBaki, Azerbaijan8.6 km northeast
Asia/BakuSame local time - AmirdzhanBaki, Azerbaijan9.5 km northeast
Asia/BakuSame local time - BilajariBaki, Azerbaijan10 km northwest
Asia/BakuSame local time - ZabratBaki, Azerbaijan12 km north
Asia/BakuSame local time
Sources for Baku 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.
- Population of AzerbaijanState Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan · Population statistics updated 2026-09-02 · AccessedOfficial methodology and administrative-territorial population context for Baku.