Current Time in Islamabad, Pakistan

How Islamabad Keeps Time

Islamabad keeps PKT, UTC+5. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Islamabad; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.

Islamabad runs on the Asia/Karachi zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC+5 right now. There is no daylight saving here, so that offset holds all year and the difference to other places only changes when they move their own clocks.

The sun rises in Islamabad at 6:21 am today and sets at 5:21 pm — 11 hours of daylight, with solar noon at 11:51 am. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (33.68, 73.04), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Islamabad has about 14 hours 23 minutes of daylight in June and 9 hours 55 minutes in December. The difference is about 4 hours 29 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

The whole of Pakistan keeps one time, so the clock on this page is also the clock in Islamabad and in every other city listed below.

Islamabad at a Glance

How Islamabad Compares with Other Cities

Read the last column as the other city relative to Islamabad. Where either place uses daylight saving, the gap changes for part of the year — the time difference calculator always shows today’s figure.

Nearby Listed Cities to Islamabad

Distances are straight-line geographic distances between the coordinates used by the directory; road or rail distances will be longer.

Other Cities in Pakistan

All of these read UTC+5, the same as Islamabad, because Pakistan keeps one zone nationally. Each page adds that city’s own sunrise, sunset and prayer times, which do differ.