PyongyangNorth Korea
Current time in Pyongyang, North Korea
Friday, 25 September 2026
Korean Standard TimeUTC+09:00
⛶ Full-screen clockPyongyang time at a glance
- Country
- North Korea
- Location
- Capital city of North Korea
- Time zone
Asia/Pyongyang- UTC offset now
UTC+09:00- Current zone label
- GMT+9
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Pyongyang time guide
Does Pyongyang change its clocks?
UTC+09:00.- Year-round offset
- Korea Standard Time (KST), UTC+09:00
- Time-zone identifier
- Asia/Pyongyang
- Pyongyang and London
- 9 hours ahead during GMT; 8 hours ahead during BST
- Pyongyang and New York
- 14 hours ahead during EST; 13 hours ahead during EDT
Direct-administered city
The census total covers the full municipality
The DPR Korea's 2008 census counted 3,255,388 residents in Pyongyang. The figure covers the direct-administered municipality rather than only its dense central districts, and it remains the latest internationally documented national census result.
Time-zone identity for Pyongyang
- 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.
Pyongyang is currently 9 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Pyongyang
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 Pyongyang
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.
Capital city context
About Pyongyang, capital of North Korea
Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of North Korea
- Administrative area
- North Korea
- Population
- 3,222,000
- Coordinates
- 39.0339° N, 125.7543° E. The elevation is 43 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Pyongyang
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Pyongyang. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- Man’gyŏngdae-riPyongyang, North Korea9.5 km southwest
Asia/PyongyangSame local time - ChunghwaPyongyang, North Korea19 km south
Asia/PyongyangSame local time - SunanPyongyang, North Korea20 km north
Asia/PyongyangSame local time - Sŭngho 1-tongPyongyang, North Korea20 km east
Asia/PyongyangSame local time - Kangdong-ŭpPyongyang, North Korea32 km east
Asia/PyongyangSame local time - KangsŏnSouth Pyongan, North Korea18 km southwest
Asia/PyongyangSame local time
Sources for Pyongyang 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.
- 2008 Census of Population of the DPR KoreaCentral Bureau of Statistics DPR Korea and UNFPA · 2008 census · AccessedGovernment census report hosted by the United Nations Statistics Division.