Current Time in Chelyabinsk, Russia
Time and Sun Facts for Chelyabinsk
- Local time
- 2:27 am
- Date
- Sunday, 25 October 2026
- Time zone
Asia/Yekaterinburg- UTC offset
- UTC+5
- Daylight saving
- Not observed here — the offset is the same all year
- Sunrise
- 7:42 am
- Sunset
- 5:34 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 52 minutes
- Coordinates
- 55.16, 61.40
How Chelyabinsk Keeps Time
Chelyabinsk keeps Yekaterinburg time, UTC+5. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Chelyabinsk; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.
Chelyabinsk runs on the Asia/Yekaterinburg 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 Chelyabinsk at 7:42 am today and sets at 5:34 pm — 9 hours 52 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:38 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (55.16, 61.40), so they shift a little every day of the year.
On the two solstices, Chelyabinsk has about 17 hours 25 minutes of daylight in June and 7 hours 8 minutes in December. The difference is about 10 hours 17 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.
At the current civil offset, Chelyabinsk’s longitude corresponds to a difference of about 54 minutes between zone time and longitude-based mean solar time. Today’s calculated solar noon is 12:38 pm rather than 12:00 on the clock.
Yekaterinburg time is one of several zones in Russia, so a time quoted for the country as a whole is not necessarily the time here. Check the city rather than the country when it matters.
Chelyabinsk at a Glance
| Coordinates | 55.1600, 61.4000 |
|---|---|
| IANA time zone | Asia/Yekaterinburg |
| Current UTC offset | UTC+5 |
| Daylight saving | Not currently observed |
| Sunrise today | 7:42 am |
| Sunset today | 5:34 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:38 pm |
| Daylight today | 9 hours 52 minutes |
| Straight-line distance to Moscow | 1,493 km |
| Current clock difference vs Moscow | +2 hours |
How Chelyabinsk Compares with Other Cities
Read the last column as the other city relative to Chelyabinsk. Where either place uses daylight saving, the gap changes for part of the year — the time difference calculator always shows today’s figure.
| City | Local time | Compared with Chelyabinsk |
|---|---|---|
| London | 10:27 pm | 4 hours behind |
| New York | 5:27 pm | 9 hours behind |
| Los Angeles | 2:27 pm | 12 hours behind |
| Dubai | 1:27 am | 1 hour behind |
| Karachi | 2:27 am | same time |
| Singapore | 5:27 am | 3 hours ahead |
| Tokyo | 6:27 am | 4 hours ahead |
| Sydney | 8:27 am | 6 hours ahead |
Nearby Listed Cities to Chelyabinsk
Distances are straight-line geographic distances between the coordinates used by the directory; road or rail distances will be longer.
| City | Approx. distance | Local time |
|---|---|---|
| Yekaterinburg | 193 km | 2:27 am |
| Omsk | 761 km | 3:27 am |
| Samara | 763 km | 1:27 am |
| Kazan | 776 km | 12:27 am |
| Nizhny Novgorod | 1,094 km | 12:27 am |
Other Cities in Russia
Russia keeps more than one zone, so these do not all read the same.
| City | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|
| Irkutsk | 5:27 am | UTC+8 |
| Kaliningrad | 11:27 pm | UTC+2 |
| Kazan | 12:27 am | UTC+3 |
| Krasnoyarsk | 4:27 am | UTC+7 |
| Moscow | 12:27 am | UTC+3 |
| Nizhny Novgorod | 12:27 am | UTC+3 |
| Novosibirsk | 4:27 am | UTC+7 |
| Omsk | 3:27 am | UTC+6 |
| Rostov-on-Don | 12:27 am | UTC+3 |
| Saint Petersburg | 12:27 am | UTC+3 |
| Samara | 1:27 am | UTC+4 |
| Sochi | 12:27 am | UTC+3 |
| Vladivostok | 7:27 am | UTC+10 |
| Yakutsk | 6:27 am | UTC+9 |
| Yekaterinburg | 2:27 am | UTC+5 |
Questions People Ask
Is Chelyabinsk the time everywhere in Russia?
No. Russia currently has 11 distinct civil UTC offsets represented in the directory, so the country page separates the regions.
Why is solar noon in Chelyabinsk far from 12:00?
The current civil offset and the city longitude do not place mean solar noon at twelve on the clock. Today the calculated solar noon is 12:38 pm.
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