Current Time in Sochi, Russia

How Sochi Keeps Time

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

Sochi 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 Sochi at 6:46 am today and sets at 5:23 pm — 10 hours 37 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:05 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (43.60, 39.73), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Sochi has about 15 hours 26 minutes of daylight in June and 8 hours 56 minutes in December. The difference is about 6 hours 30 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.

Sochi at a Glance

How Sochi Compares with Other Cities

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

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.