SeoulSouth Korea
Current time in Seoul, South Korea
Friday, 25 September 2026
Korean Standard TimeUTC+09:00
⛶ Full-screen clockSeoul time at a glance
- Country
- South Korea
- Location
- Capital city of South Korea
- Time zone
Asia/Seoul- UTC offset now
UTC+09:00- Current zone label
- GMT+9
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Seoul time guide
Does Seoul change its clocks?
UTC+09:00.- Year-round offset
- Korea Standard Time (KST), UTC+09:00
- Time-zone identifier
- Asia/Seoul
- Seoul and London
- 9 hours ahead during GMT; 8 hours ahead during BST
- Seoul and New York
- 14 hours ahead during EST; 13 hours ahead during EDT
Special city and capital region
Seoul city is not the entire metropolitan area
Official Korean statistics report Seoul as a special city, while the Seoul Capital Area also includes Incheon and much of Gyeonggi Province. Those regional totals should not be presented as the population of Seoul city.
Time-zone identity for Seoul
- 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.
Seoul is currently 9 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Seoul
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 Seoul
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.
Capital city context
About Seoul, capital of South Korea
Seoul is the capital of South Korea. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of South Korea
- Administrative area
- South Korea
- Population
- 10,349,312
- Coordinates
- 37.5660° N, 126.9784° E. The elevation is 38 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Seoul
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Seoul. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- SiheungdongSeoul, South Korea14 km southwest
Asia/SeoulSame local time - GwangmyeongGyeonggi-do, South Korea14 km southwest
Asia/SeoulSame local time - Guri-siGyeonggi-do, South Korea15 km east
Asia/SeoulSame local time - Goyang-siGyeonggi-do, South Korea16 km northwest
Asia/SeoulSame local time - Bucheon-siGyeonggi-do, South Korea19 km southwest
Asia/SeoulSame local time - Anyang-siGyeonggi-do, South Korea20 km south
Asia/SeoulSame local time
Sources for Seoul 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 and households by administrative districtKorean Statistical Information Service · Official statistical database · AccessedNational population tables organized by administrative district.