Current Time in Seoul, South Korea

How Seoul Keeps Time

Seoul keeps KST, UTC+9. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Seoul; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.

Seoul runs on the Asia/Seoul zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC+9 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 Seoul at 6:49 am today and sets at 5:43 pm — 10 hours 54 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:16 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (37.57, 126.98), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Seoul has about 14 hours 46 minutes of daylight in June and 9 hours 34 minutes in December. The difference is about 5 hours 12 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

The whole of South Korea keeps one time, so the clock on this page is also the clock in Seoul and in every other city listed below.

Seoul at a Glance

How Seoul Compares with Other Cities

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

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

Other Cities in South Korea

All of these read UTC+9, the same as Seoul, because South Korea keeps one zone nationally. Each page adds that city’s own sunrise, sunset and prayer times, which do differ.