AshgabatTurkmenistan
Current time in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Friday, 25 September 2026
Turkmenistan Standard TimeUTC+05:00
⛶ Full-screen clockAshgabat time at a glance
- Country
- Turkmenistan
- Location
- Capital city of Turkmenistan
- Time zone
Asia/Ashgabat- UTC offset now
UTC+05:00- Current zone label
- GMT+5
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Ashgabat time guide
Does Ashgabat change its clocks?
UTC+05:00.- Year-round offset
- Turkmenistan Time (TMT), UTC+05:00
- Time-zone identifier
- Asia/Ashgabat
- Ashgabat and London
- 5 hours ahead during GMT; 4 hours ahead during BST
- Ashgabat and New York
- 10 hours ahead during EST; 9 hours ahead during EDT
City with province-level status
Ashgabat is reported separately from Ahal
Turkmenistan's 2022 census counted 1,030,063 residents in Ashgabat city. The capital has province-level status and is tabulated separately from surrounding Ahal velayat, so their totals should not be combined.
Time-zone identity for Ashgabat
- IANA zone
Asia/Ashgabat- UTC offset now
- UTC+05:00
- Current zone label
- GMT+5
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Ashgabat is currently 5 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Ashgabat
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 Ashgabat
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Asia/Ashgabat, 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 Ashgabat, capital of Turkmenistan
Ashgabat is the capital of Turkmenistan. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Turkmenistan
- Administrative area
- Turkmenistan
- Population
- 1,030,063
- Coordinates
- 37.9500° N, 58.3833° E. The elevation is 219 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Ashgabat
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Ashgabat. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- ÄnewAhal, Turkmenistan14 km southeast
Asia/AshgabatSame local time - AbadanAhal, Turkmenistan20 km northwest
Asia/AshgabatSame local time - ArkadagAhal, Turkmenistan31 km northwest
Asia/AshgabatSame local time - GökdepeAhal, Turkmenistan44 km northwest
Asia/AshgabatSame local time - BäherdenAhal, Turkmenistan99 km northwest
Asia/AshgabatSame local time - KakaAhal, Turkmenistan127 km southeast
Asia/AshgabatSame local time
Sources for Ashgabat 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.
- Complete Population and Housing Census of Turkmenistan 2022State Committee of Turkmenistan on Statistics · 2022 census · AccessedOfficial census results and Ashgabat city tables.