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A world clock on a live 3D globe, turned to Seoul.
South Korea · GMT+9
Seoul runs on GMT+9. Add 9 hours to Coordinated Universal Time to get the current time in Seoul.
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24h schedule
Sunrise
06:23
Sunset
18:11
Seoul is located in South Korea and uses the Asia/Seoul timezone, currently GMT+9 from UTC. Seoul does not observe daylight saving time. Sunrise is at 06:23 and sunset at 18:11 local time. The coordinates of Seoul are 37.57°N, 126.98°E.
Today Seoul gets 11 hours 48 minutes of daylight. Solar noon — when the sun is highest — falls at 12:17, about 17 minutes after clock noon.
Right now Seoul shares its GMT+9 offset with Tokyo, Osaka, Busan, Pyongyang, Dili. Clocks in these places read the same, even where the calendar date differs.
Offices in Seoul work Monday to Friday, typically 09:00–18:00 local time. Lunch is usually 12:00–13:00, and a meeting proposed inside it will be moved. The city's economy runs on electronics, automotive, gaming and finance, which is who you are most likely to be calling. Hierarchy shapes who speaks in a meeting, and a decision is usually confirmed by the senior person afterwards.
The dates that most often break a cross-border schedule are Seollal (three days around Lunar New Year, January or February), Chuseok (three days in September or October) and Liberation Day (15 August). Expect slow replies during Chuseok.
| From | Gap | Call at (Seoul time) |
|---|---|---|
| 🇰🇵 Pyongyang | same time | 09:00–17:00 |
| 🇹🇱 Dili | same time | 09:00–17:00 |
| 🇰🇷 Busan | same time | 09:00–17:00 |
| 🇷🇺 Vladivostok | +1h | 09:00–16:00 |
| 🇬🇧 London | −9h | 16:00–20:00 (early or late for one side) |
| 🇺🇸 New York | −13h | 07:00–09:00 (early or late for one side) |
| 🇸🇬 Singapore | −1h | 10:00–17:00 |
| 🇦🇪 Dubai | −5h | 14:00–17:00 |
Office hours taken as 09:00–17:00 on both sides. A row opens the meeting page for the two cities where one exists, otherwise the converter.
Seoul is in the Asia/Seoul timezone, currently GMT+9.
No. Seoul does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset is always GMT+9.
Seoul is currently GMT+9 from UTC (GMT+9).
Right now Seoul is 9 hours ahead of London and 13 hours ahead of New York. The gaps move by an hour when either side changes its clocks.
09:00 in Seoul is 00:00 UTC today, because the city is GMT+9 from UTC.
Today the sun rises in Seoul at 06:23 and sets at 18:11 local time. These times were calculated when this page was built and drift by a few minutes a week.
Times on this page were calculated on .
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