GwangjuSouth Korea
Current time in Gwangju, South Korea
Friday, 11 September 2026
Korean Standard TimeUTC+09:00
⛶ Full-screen clockGwangju time at a glance
- Country
- South Korea
- Location
- City in South Korea
- Time zone
Asia/Seoul- UTC offset now
UTC+09:00- Current zone label
- GMT+9
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Time-zone identity for Gwangju
- IANA zone
Asia/Seoul- 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.
Gwangju is currently 9 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Gwangju
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Thursday, 16 September 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Gwangju
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Asia/Seoul, 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 Gwangju
Location details for Gwangju in South Korea.
- Administrative area
- South Korea
- Population
- 1,401,235
- Coordinates
- 35.1547° N, 126.9156° E. The elevation is 47 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Gwangju
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Gwangju. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- MasanGwangju, South Korea8.2 km west
Asia/SeoulSame local time - HwasunJeollanam-do, South Korea12 km southeast
Asia/SeoulSame local time - DamyangJeollanam-do, South Korea19 km north
Asia/SeoulSame local time - JangseongJeollanam-do, South Korea20 km northwest
Asia/SeoulSame local time - NajuJeollanam-do, South Korea23 km southwest
Asia/SeoulSame local time - Koch'angJeollabuk-do, South Korea37 km northwest
Asia/SeoulSame local time
Sources for Gwangju time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 3 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.