# What are the Russia time zones?

Lists the time zones of Russia with the local time, abbreviation, UTC offset, and daylight saving in each, for any time and date.

- Page: https://www.acalculator.org/days/russia-time-zones
- JSON spec: https://www.acalculator.org/days/russia-time-zones.json
- Version: ed3930be980f

## Default answer

Example with the default inputs (Time 12:00, In Moscow, St. Petersburg, Date September 30, 2026) on the example date Wednesday, September 30, 2026: At 12:00 PM on September 30, 2026 in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Russia has 11 time zones and 11 UTC offsets in use.

## Inputs

| Key | Label | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| at | Time | A clock time in the zone chosen below; the table shows that moment in every zone. |
| zone | In | The time zone of the time above (IANA name). |
| on | Date | The date of that time in that zone. Today, unless you change it. |

## Outputs

| Key | Label | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| zones | Time zones | The number of different standard UTC offsets among the zones listed for Russia. |
| inUse | UTC offsets in use at that moment | The number of different UTC offsets the listed zones show at that moment, daylight saving included. |
| kaliningrad | Kaliningrad | Local time, abbreviation, UTC offset, and daylight saving in Europe/Kaliningrad at that moment. |
| moscow | Moscow, St. Petersburg | Local time, abbreviation, UTC offset, and daylight saving in Europe/Moscow at that moment. |
| samara | Samara, Udmurtia | Local time, abbreviation, UTC offset, and daylight saving in Europe/Samara at that moment. |
| yekaterinburg | Yekaterinburg: the Urals | Local time, abbreviation, UTC offset, and daylight saving in Asia/Yekaterinburg at that moment. |
| omsk | Omsk | Local time, abbreviation, UTC offset, and daylight saving in Asia/Omsk at that moment. |
| krasnoyarsk | Krasnoyarsk | Local time, abbreviation, UTC offset, and daylight saving in Asia/Krasnoyarsk at that moment. |
| novosibirsk | Novosibirsk | Local time, abbreviation, UTC offset, and daylight saving in Asia/Novosibirsk at that moment. |
| irkutsk | Irkutsk, Buryatia | Local time, abbreviation, UTC offset, and daylight saving in Asia/Irkutsk at that moment. |
| yakutsk | Yakutsk | Local time, abbreviation, UTC offset, and daylight saving in Asia/Yakutsk at that moment. |
| vladivostok | Vladivostok | Local time, abbreviation, UTC offset, and daylight saving in Asia/Vladivostok at that moment. |
| magadan | Magadan | Local time, abbreviation, UTC offset, and daylight saving in Asia/Magadan at that moment. |
| kamchatka | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky | Local time, abbreviation, UTC offset, and daylight saving in Asia/Kamchatka at that moment. |

## Method

For the typed time in the chosen zone, find the instant (UTC) it names, then show each listed zone’s clock at that instant with its UTC offset, from the browser’s IANA time zone data.

## Assumptions

- The zones are IANA tzdata names from zone1970.tab (tzdata 2026a): Europe/Kaliningrad, Europe/Moscow, Europe/Samara, Asia/Yekaterinburg, Asia/Omsk, Asia/Krasnoyarsk, Asia/Novosibirsk, Asia/Irkutsk, Asia/Yakutsk, Asia/Vladivostok, Asia/Magadan, Asia/Kamchatka. The browser supplies each zone's offsets and daylight saving rules, so a rule change arrives with a browser update.
- “Time zones” counts the different standard offsets among the listed zones. A zone’s standard offset in a year is the lower of its offsets at 00:00 UTC on January 1 and July 1 of that UTC year.
- “UTC offsets in use” counts the different offsets the listed zones show at that moment.
- Each zone shows its local time, the abbreviation from the browser’s Unicode CLDR English names (left out when CLDR has none), the date as “Tue, Sep 29”, the offset as UTC+hh:mm or UTC−hh:mm, and “daylight saving” when the offset is ahead of the standard offset, “standard time” when the zone’s January 1 and July 1 offsets differ but it is on the standard offset, or “no daylight saving” when they are the same. Because the rule compares January 1 and July 1, a zone that moves its offset for good during a year (Cancún in 2015, Novosibirsk in 2016), or whose January 1 falls in Morocco’s Ramadan change (Casablanca in 2030 to 2033), shows the later offset as “daylight saving” for that year.
- A time that does not exist in the chosen zone (skipped when clocks spring forward) has no answer. A time that occurs twice (when clocks fall back) shows both moments, earlier first, where they differ.
- Dates from 2000 to 2040 work.

## Worked examples

1. at = 12:00, zone = Europe/Moscow, on = 2026-01-15 gives zones = 11, inUse = 11, kaliningrad = 11:00 AM EET · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC+02:00 · no daylight saving, moscow = 12:00 PM · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC+03:00 · no daylight saving, samara = 1:00 PM · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC+04:00 · no daylight saving, yekaterinburg = 2:00 PM · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC+05:00 · no daylight saving, omsk = 3:00 PM · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC+06:00 · no daylight saving, krasnoyarsk = 4:00 PM · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC+07:00 · no daylight saving, novosibirsk = 4:00 PM · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC+07:00 · no daylight saving, irkutsk = 5:00 PM · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC+08:00 · no daylight saving, yakutsk = 6:00 PM · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC+09:00 · no daylight saving, vladivostok = 7:00 PM · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC+10:00 · no daylight saving, magadan = 8:00 PM · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC+11:00 · no daylight saving, kamchatka = 9:00 PM · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC+12:00 · no daylight saving. Source: IANA Time Zone Database, tzdata 2026a (https://www.iana.org/time-zones).
2. at = 12:00, zone = Europe/Moscow, on = 2026-07-15 gives zones = 11, inUse = 11, kaliningrad = 11:00 AM EET · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC+02:00 · no daylight saving, moscow = 12:00 PM · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC+03:00 · no daylight saving, samara = 1:00 PM · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC+04:00 · no daylight saving, yekaterinburg = 2:00 PM · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC+05:00 · no daylight saving, omsk = 3:00 PM · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC+06:00 · no daylight saving, krasnoyarsk = 4:00 PM · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC+07:00 · no daylight saving, novosibirsk = 4:00 PM · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC+07:00 · no daylight saving, irkutsk = 5:00 PM · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC+08:00 · no daylight saving, yakutsk = 6:00 PM · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC+09:00 · no daylight saving, vladivostok = 7:00 PM · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC+10:00 · no daylight saving, magadan = 8:00 PM · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC+11:00 · no daylight saving, kamchatka = 9:00 PM · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC+12:00 · no daylight saving. Source: IANA Time Zone Database, tzdata 2026a (https://www.iana.org/time-zones).

## FAQ

### How many time zones does Russia have?

11, from UTC+02:00 in Kaliningrad to UTC+12:00 in Kamchatka and Chukotka. Russian zones are often named by their difference from Moscow time (UTC+03:00), so Kamchatka time is MSK+9.

### Does Russia use daylight saving time?

No. Russia has not changed its clocks for summer since 2011 (Federal Law No. 107-FZ, “On the Calculation of Time”). Some regions moved their offset for good later: all of Russia in October 2014, and regions such as Novosibirsk, Magadan, and Volgograd between 2016 and 2020.

### How far apart are Moscow and Vladivostok?

As of Wednesday, September 30, 2026, Vladivostok is 7 hours ahead of Moscow, the same all year.

## Sources

- Federal Law of the Russian Federation No. 107-FZ of June 3, 2011, “On the Calculation of Time”
- IANA Time Zone Database, tzdata 2026a (https://www.iana.org/time-zones)