Current Time in Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Time and Sun Facts for Rostov-on-Don
- Local time
- 12:27 am
- Date
- Sunday, 25 October 2026
- Time zone
Europe/Moscow- UTC offset
- UTC+3
- Daylight saving
- Not observed here — the offset is the same all year
- Sunrise
- 6:52 am
- Sunset
- 5:18 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 25 minutes
- Coordinates
- 47.24, 39.71
How Rostov-on-Don Keeps Time
Rostov-on-Don keeps MSK, UTC+3. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Rostov-on-Don; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.
Rostov-on-Don 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 Rostov-on-Don at 6:52 am today and sets at 5:18 pm — 10 hours 25 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:05 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (47.24, 39.71), so they shift a little every day of the year.
On the two solstices, Rostov-on-Don has about 15 hours 56 minutes of daylight in June and 8 hours 28 minutes in December. The difference is about 7 hours 27 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.
Rostov-on-Don at a Glance
| Coordinates | 47.2400, 39.7100 |
|---|---|
| IANA time zone | Europe/Moscow |
| Current UTC offset | UTC+3 |
| Daylight saving | Not currently observed |
| Sunrise today | 6:52 am |
| Sunset today | 5:18 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:05 pm |
| Daylight today | 10 hours 25 minutes |
| Straight-line distance to Moscow | 958 km |
| Current clock difference vs Moscow | Same civil time |
How Rostov-on-Don Compares with Other Cities
Read the last column as the other city relative to Rostov-on-Don. 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 Rostov-on-Don |
|---|---|---|
| London | 10:27 pm | 2 hours behind |
| New York | 5:27 pm | 7 hours behind |
| Los Angeles | 2:27 pm | 10 hours behind |
| Dubai | 1:27 am | 1 hour ahead |
| Karachi | 2:27 am | 2 hours ahead |
| Singapore | 5:27 am | 5 hours ahead |
| Tokyo | 6:27 am | 6 hours ahead |
| Sydney | 8:27 am | 8 hours ahead |
Nearby Listed Cities to Rostov-on-Don
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sochi | 405 km | 12:27 am |
| Moscow | 958 km | 12:27 am |
| Samara | 994 km | 1:27 am |
| Nizhny Novgorod | 1,052 km | 12:27 am |
| Kazan | 1,150 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chelyabinsk | 2:27 am | UTC+5 |
| 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 |
| 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 Rostov-on-Don 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.
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