Current Time in Irkutsk, Russia
Time and Sun Facts for Irkutsk
- Local time
- 5:25 am
- Date
- Sunday, 25 October 2026
- Time zone
Asia/Irkutsk- UTC offset
- UTC+8
- Daylight saving
- Not observed here — the offset is the same all year
- Sunrise
- 7:44 am
- Sunset
- 5:49 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 6 minutes
- Coordinates
- 52.29, 104.30
How Irkutsk Keeps Time
Irkutsk keeps Irkutsk time, UTC+8. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Irkutsk; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.
Irkutsk runs on the Asia/Irkutsk zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC+8 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 Irkutsk at 7:44 am today and sets at 5:49 pm — 10 hours 6 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:46 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (52.29, 104.30), so they shift a little every day of the year.
On the two solstices, Irkutsk has about 16 hours 47 minutes of daylight in June and 7 hours 41 minutes in December. The difference is about 9 hours 6 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.
At the current civil offset, Irkutsk’s longitude corresponds to a difference of about 1 hour 3 minutes between zone time and longitude-based mean solar time. Today’s calculated solar noon is 12:46 pm rather than 12:00 on the clock.
Irkutsk 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.
Irkutsk at a Glance
| Coordinates | 52.2900, 104.3000 |
|---|---|
| IANA time zone | Asia/Irkutsk |
| Current UTC offset | UTC+8 |
| Daylight saving | Not currently observed |
| Sunrise today | 7:44 am |
| Sunset today | 5:49 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:46 pm |
| Daylight today | 10 hours 6 minutes |
| Straight-line distance to Moscow | 4,202 km |
| Current clock difference vs Moscow | +5 hours |
How Irkutsk Compares with Other Cities
Read the last column as the other city relative to Irkutsk. 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 Irkutsk |
|---|---|---|
| London | 10:25 pm | 7 hours behind |
| New York | 5:25 pm | 12 hours behind |
| Los Angeles | 2:25 pm | 15 hours behind |
| Dubai | 1:25 am | 4 hours behind |
| Karachi | 2:25 am | 3 hours behind |
| Singapore | 5:25 am | same time |
| Tokyo | 6:25 am | 1 hour ahead |
| Sydney | 8:25 am | 3 hours ahead |
Nearby Listed Cities to Irkutsk
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Krasnoyarsk | 851 km | 4:25 am |
| Novosibirsk | 1,435 km | 4:25 am |
| Yakutsk | 1,858 km | 6:25 am |
| Omsk | 2,044 km | 3:25 am |
| Vladivostok | 2,284 km | 7:25 am |
Other Cities in Russia
Russia keeps more than one zone, so these do not all read the same.
| City | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|
| Chelyabinsk | 2:25 am | UTC+5 |
| Kaliningrad | 11:25 pm | UTC+2 |
| Kazan | 12:25 am | UTC+3 |
| Krasnoyarsk | 4:25 am | UTC+7 |
| Moscow | 12:25 am | UTC+3 |
| Nizhny Novgorod | 12:25 am | UTC+3 |
| Novosibirsk | 4:25 am | UTC+7 |
| Omsk | 3:25 am | UTC+6 |
| Rostov-on-Don | 12:25 am | UTC+3 |
| Saint Petersburg | 12:25 am | UTC+3 |
| Samara | 1:25 am | UTC+4 |
| Sochi | 12:25 am | UTC+3 |
| Vladivostok | 7:25 am | UTC+10 |
| Yakutsk | 6:25 am | UTC+9 |
| Yekaterinburg | 2:25 am | UTC+5 |
Questions People Ask
Is Irkutsk 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 Irkutsk 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 12:46 pm.
More Clocks and Time Zones
the current time in Irkutsk, Russia has its own page so it can be linked to directly. World Clock is the way in to everywhere else on the site.