KaesŏngNorth Korea
Current time in Kaesŏng, North Korea
Tuesday, 1 September 2026
Korean Standard TimeUTC+09:00
⛶ Full-screen clockKaesŏng time at a glance
- Country
- North Korea
- Location
- City in North Korea
- Time zone
Asia/Pyongyang- UTC offset now
UTC+09:00- Current zone label
- GMT+9
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Weather now
Weather in Kaesŏng
Conditions near Kaesŏng and a 3-day forecast. Local conditions can differ across large urban areas, mountains and coastlines.
Light rain shower
- Feels like
- 23°C
- Humidity
- 96%
- Wind
- 6.8 km/h E
- Recent precipitation
- 1.5 mm
3-day forecast
- Light rain shower21°C to 23°C92% chance of precipitationWind up to 10.4 km/h
- Patchy rain nearby21°C to 26°C52% chance of precipitationWind up to 7.2 km/h
- Sunny20°C to 28°C8% chance of precipitationWind up to 23 km/h
Forecast valid from 08:15 local time. Updated 2026-08-31T23:25:02.818Z; refresh due by 2026-08-31T23:40:02.818Z.
Time-zone identity for Kaesŏng
- IANA zone
Asia/Pyongyang- UTC offset now
- UTC+09:00
- Current zone label
- GMT+9
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Kaesŏng is currently 9 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Kaesŏng
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Monday, 6 September 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Kaesŏng
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Asia/Pyongyang, 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 Kaesŏng
Location details for Kaesŏng in North Korea.
- Administrative area
- North Korea
- Population
- 338,155
- Coordinates
- 37.9708° N, 126.5544° E. The elevation is 42 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Kaesŏng
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Kaesŏng. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- Paech’ŏn-ŭpSouth Hwanghae, North Korea22 km west
Asia/PyongyangSame local time - Pongch’ŏn-ŭpSouth Hwanghae, North Korea35 km northwest
Asia/PyongyangSame local time - Yŏnan-ŭpSouth Hwanghae, North Korea35 km west
Asia/PyongyangSame local time - Ch’ŏngdan-ŭpSouth Hwanghae, North Korea54 km west
Asia/PyongyangSame local time - SinmakNorth Hwanghae, North Korea57 km northwest
Asia/PyongyangSame local time - Ayang-niSouth Hwanghae, North Korea73 km northwest
Asia/PyongyangSame local time
Sources for Kaesŏng 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.