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CURRENT LOCAL TIME

Time in Kaesŏng, North Korea

· Korean Standard Time

KST · UTC+9—— H FROM YOUASIA/PYONGYANG

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Kaesŏng against your time zone

Reading your time zone to compare it with Kaesŏng…

Kaesŏng compared with your time zone, hour by hour, with the working-hour overlap shaded
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Kaesŏng time zone facts

IANA time zoneAsia/Pyongyang
Offset nowUTC+9 (KST)
Offset all yearUTC+9 (KST)
Next clock changeNone — this zone does not change clocks
CountryNorth Korea (KP)
Population338,155
Coordinates37.97, 126.55
Places in this zone16

Best hours to reach Kaesŏng

From New York
13 hours behind Kaesŏng · their morning
22:00–00:00
09:00–11:00 EDT
From San Francisco
16 hours behind Kaesŏng · their afternoon
09:00–10:00
17:00–18:00 PDT
From Bengaluru
3½ hours behind Kaesŏng · their morning
13:00–18:00
09:00–14:00 IST

Local times in Kaesŏng on the left, the caller’s own clock on the right. Computed from the working-hour overlap for today’s offsets.

About time in Kaesŏng

Kaesŏng keeps Korean Standard Time, UTC+9 from UTC all year. The offset never changes, so any difference between you and Kaesŏng moves only when your own clocks do.

Kaesŏng shares the zone Asia/Pyongyang with Pyongyang, Dandong, Hamhŭng, Namp’o, so a time here is also the time there. One canonical page per zone keeps the difference honest: the settlement name changes, the clock does not.

Offsets and daylight saving rules come from the IANA time zone database — see IANA time zone notes for what that data does and does not promise about future dates.

Kaesŏng converted to other zones

Each opens a comparison page with both cities on one timeline.

Cities on the same offset today

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COMMON QUESTIONS

What time is it in Kaesŏng right now?

The clock at the top of this page reads the current time in Kaesŏng to the second. Kaesŏng is on Korean Standard Time, UTC+9 — the same clock as every other place in the zone Asia/Pyongyang.

Does Kaesŏng observe daylight saving time?

No. Kaesŏng stays on UTC+9 all year, so the difference between you and Kaesŏng only changes when your own clocks do.

What time zone is Kaesŏng in?

Kaesŏng uses the IANA zone Asia/Pyongyang, currently KST (UTC+9). Abbreviations are for reading — the zone identifier is the unambiguous name, and it is what you should store in your own systems.

Which other places read the same time as Kaesŏng?

Pyongyang, Dandong, Hamhŭng, Namp’o, Sunch’ŏn all sit in Asia/Pyongyang, so they read exactly the same clock, daylight saving changes included.