Current Time in Moscow, Russia

How Moscow Keeps Time

Moscow keeps MSK, UTC+3. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Moscow; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.

Moscow runs on the Europe/Moscow zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC+3 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 Moscow at 7:19 am today and sets at 5:08 pm — 9 hours 49 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:13 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (55.76, 37.62), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Moscow has about 17 hours 33 minutes of daylight in June and 7 hours in December. The difference is about 10 hours 33 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

MSK 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.

Moscow at a Glance

How Moscow Compares with Other Cities

Read the last column as the other city relative to Moscow. 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 Moscow

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

Other Cities in Russia

Russia keeps more than one zone, so these do not all read the same.