KarsTurkey
Current time in Kars, Turkey
Thursday, 15 October 2026
Türkiye Standard TimeUTC+03:00
⛶ Full-screen clockKars time at a glance
- Country
- Turkey
- Location
- City in Kars Province
- Time zone
Europe/Istanbul- UTC offset now
UTC+03:00- Current zone label
- GMT+3
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Time-zone identity for Kars
- IANA zone
Europe/Istanbul- UTC offset now
- UTC+03:00
- Current zone label
- GMT+3
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Kars is currently 3 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Kars
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Wednesday, 20 October 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Kars
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Europe/Istanbul, 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 Kars
Location details for Kars in Kars Province, Turkey.
- Administrative area
- Kars Province, Turkey
- Population
- 91,450
- Coordinates
- 40.5983° N, 43.0855° E. The elevation is 1,767 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Kars
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Kars. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- KağızmanKars Province, Turkey49 km south
Europe/IstanbulSame local time - SarıkamışKars Province, Turkey52 km southwest
Europe/IstanbulSame local time - ArdahanTurkey65 km northwest
Europe/IstanbulSame local time - OltuErzurum, Turkey93 km west
Europe/IstanbulSame local time - AğrıTurkey98 km south
Europe/IstanbulSame local time - HorasanErzurum, Turkey100 km southwest
Europe/IstanbulSame local time
Sources for Kars 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.