Current time in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan right now
It is 2:42 pm in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 right now, on Sunday, November 8, 2026. The city keeps Asia/Ashgabat, which is UTC+5 at UTC+5, so Ashgabat is 5 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 9:42 am. The sun rose in Ashgabat at 7:39 am and sets at 6:01 pm, which is 10 hours 22 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Ashgabat right now?
The time in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan is 2:42 pm, 14:42 on a 24 hour clock, on Sunday November 8, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Asia/Ashgabat rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Ashgabat sits at 37.95 degrees north and 58.38 degrees east, in the subtropical belt and 4,220 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 75.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 16.6 degrees west of that line. Those 16.6 degrees are worth 66 minutes 28 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:50 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Ashgabat time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Ashgabat, Turkmenistan is Asia/Ashgabat. Right now it is running at UTC+5 and the abbreviation in force is UTC+5. Ashgabat does not change its clocks at any point in the year. The offset stays at UTC+5 in January and in July alike, so no conversion involving Ashgabat ever needs a seasonal footnote.
Daylight hours in Ashgabat today
The sun rose in Ashgabat at 7:39 am and sets at 6:01 pm, which is 10 hours 22 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Ashgabat, is at 12:50 pm, which is 50 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -16.60 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 35.4 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Ashgabat |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 7:39 am |
| Sunset | 6:01 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:50 pm |
| Day length | 10 hours 22 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 5:23 pm to 6:18 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 6:28 pm |
The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Ashgabat, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Ashgabat is on the map
The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.
An interactive map of Ashgabat. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Ashgabat on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Ashgabat and major cities
Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Ashgabat.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Ashgabat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 1:42 am | -13 | 13 hours behind of Ashgabat |
| Chicago, Illinois | 3:42 am | -11 | 11 hours behind of Ashgabat |
| New York, New York | 4:42 am | -10 | 10 hours behind of Ashgabat |
| Toronto, Canada | 4:42 am | -10 | 10 hours behind of Ashgabat |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 6:42 am | -8 | 8 hours behind of Ashgabat |
| London, United Kingdom | 9:42 am | -5 | 5 hours behind of Ashgabat |
| Paris, France | 10:42 am | -4 | 4 hours behind of Ashgabat |
| Berlin, Germany | 10:42 am | -4 | 4 hours behind of Ashgabat |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 11:42 am | -3 | 3 hours behind of Ashgabat |
| Moscow, Russia | 12:42 pm | -2 | 2 hours behind of Ashgabat |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 1:42 pm | -1 | 1 hour behind of Ashgabat |
| Delhi, India | 3:12 pm | +0:30 | 30 minutes ahead of Ashgabat |
| Singapore, Singapore | 5:42 pm | +3 | 3 hours ahead of Ashgabat |
| Hong Kong, China | 5:42 pm | +3 | 3 hours ahead of Ashgabat |
| Tokyo, Japan | 6:42 pm | +4 | 4 hours ahead of Ashgabat |
| Sydney, Australia | 8:42 pm | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Ashgabat |
Best time to call Ashgabat
Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Ashgabat | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | -10 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| Los Angeles | -13 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| London | -5 | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm |
| Delhi | +0:30 | 9:00 am to 5:30 pm | 9:30 am to 6:00 pm |
| Sydney | +6 | 9:00 am to 12:00 pm | 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
Other cities in Turkmenistan
We cover 4 cities in Turkmenistan. These are the ones nearest to Ashgabat, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary | Mary | 2:42 pm | UTC+5 |
| Dasoguz | Dasoguz | 2:42 pm | UTC+5 |
| Tuerkmenabat | Lebap | 2:42 pm | UTC+5 |
Cities on Asia/Ashgabat time
4 of our cities keep Asia/Ashgabat, so every one of them reads 2:42 pm at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Ashgabat. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Ashgabat |
|---|---|---|
| Mary, Turkmenistan | 2:42 pm | 306 km |
| Dasoguz, Turkmenistan | 2:42 pm | 453 km |
| Tuerkmenabat, Turkmenistan | 2:42 pm | 469 km |
Moon phase over Ashgabat tonight
The moon is a waning crescent tonight, 28.7 days into its cycle and about 1% lit. The next full moon falls on November 24, 2026 at 7:53 pm Ashgabat time, and the next new moon on November 9, 2026 at 12:01 pm. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Ashgabat clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Ashgabat
There is no clock change scheduled in Asia/Ashgabat within the next 400 days, so Ashgabat stays at UTC+5 for the whole of that stretch.
That makes Ashgabat an easy city to schedule against: a meeting fixed at a given hour here holds its relationship to UTC all year, and only the other end of the call can move.
How far Ashgabat is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Ashgabat is Quchan, Iran at 95 km, and the furthest is Puerto Montt, Chile at 15,888 km, which is 79% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quchan, Iran | 95 | 59 | south | 1:12 pm |
| Bojnurd, Iran | 107 | 66 | south west | 1:12 pm |
| Neyshabur, Iran | 197 | 122 | south | 1:12 pm |
| Sabzevar, Iran | 203 | 126 | south | 1:12 pm |
| Mashhad, Iran | 213 | 133 | south east | 1:12 pm |
| Maragheh (Razavi Khorasan), Iran | 261 | 162 | south east | 1:12 pm |
| Gonbad-e Kavus, Iran | 294 | 183 | west | 1:12 pm |
| Kashmar, Iran | 302 | 187 | south | 1:12 pm |
| Mary, Turkmenistan | 306 | 190 | east | 2:42 pm |
| Torbat-e Heydariyeh, Iran | 307 | 191 | south | 1:12 pm |
The antipode of Ashgabat
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Ashgabat, Turkmenistan and you come out at 37.95 degrees south, 121.62 degrees west. That point is in the South Pacific Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Puerto Montt, Chile, 4,127 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 6:42 am on Sunday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 37.95 degrees north becomes 37.95 degrees south, and 58.38 degrees east becomes 121.62 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Ashgabat is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-7, roughly twelve hours from Ashgabat, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Ashgabat
Today the sun rises in Ashgabat at 7:39 am and sets at 6:01 pm, giving 10 hours 22 minutes of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Ashgabat.
Sun and moon in Ashgabat today
The sun is up in Ashgabat for 10 hours 22 minutes today, from 7:39 am to 6:01 pm. The moon rises in Ashgabat at 6:42 am and sets at 5:07 pm. The next phase is the new moon on November 9, 2026. The moon is new. The face turned towards us is unlit, so there is nothing to see even while it is above the horizon.
| Sun | Time in Ashgabat |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 6:09 am |
| Nautical dawn | 6:40 am |
| Civil dawn | 7:12 am |
| Sunrise | 7:39 am |
| Solar noon | 12:50 pm |
| Sunset | 6:01 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:28 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 7:00 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:31 pm |
Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.
| Light band | Time in Ashgabat | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 7:12 am to 7:22 am | 0h 11m |
| Morning golden hour | 7:22 am to 8:17 am | 0h 55m |
| Evening golden hour | 5:23 pm to 6:18 pm | 0h 55m |
| Evening blue hour | 6:18 pm to 6:28 pm | 0h 11m |
Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.
| Moon | Reading in Ashgabat |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:42 am |
| Moonset | 5:07 pm |
| Phase | waning crescent, waning |
| Illumination | 1% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 28.6 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 394,700 km |
Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.
Meeting planner: Ashgabat and four other places
Every hour of Sunday, November 8, 2026 in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, read across 4 other places. Columns are Ashgabat local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
Change the places or the date
| Ashgabat local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AshgabatUTC+5 UTC+5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPST UTC-8 | 11-1 | 12-1 | 13-1 | 14-1 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| New YorkEST UTC-5 | 14-1 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| LondonGMT UTC+0 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 0:30 | 1:30 | 2:30 | 3:30 | 4:30 | 5:30 | 6:30 | 7:30 | 8:30 | 9:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 | 21:30 | 22:30 | 23:30 |
No hour on Sunday, November 8, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Los Angeles and Delhi are 13 hours 30 minutes apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 2:00 pm in Ashgabat it is working hours in Ashgabat, London and Delhi, but outside them in Los Angeles and New York. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Ashgabat
Seven days from November 8, 2026, computed for Ashgabat, Turkmenistan at 37.95 degrees north, 58.38 degrees east, on the clock of Asia/Ashgabat. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday November 8 | 6:09 am | 7:39 am | 12:50 pm | 3:39 pm | 6:01 pm | 7:25 pm |
| Monday November 9 | 6:10 am | 7:40 am | 12:50 pm | 3:38 pm | 6:00 pm | 7:25 pm |
| Tuesday November 10 | 6:11 am | 7:41 am | 12:50 pm | 3:37 pm | 5:59 pm | 7:24 pm |
| Wednesday November 11 | 6:12 am | 7:42 am | 12:50 pm | 3:37 pm | 5:58 pm | 7:23 pm |
| Thursday November 12 | 6:13 am | 7:43 am | 12:51 pm | 3:36 pm | 5:57 pm | 7:23 pm |
| Friday November 13 | 6:14 am | 7:45 am | 12:51 pm | 3:36 pm | 5:56 pm | 7:22 pm |
| Saturday November 14 | 6:15 am | 7:46 am | 12:51 pm | 3:35 pm | 5:56 pm | 7:21 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.
Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.
Qibla direction from Ashgabat
From Ashgabat, Turkmenistan the qibla is 229.3 degrees on a true compass, which is southwest, or 40.7 degrees north of due west. The Kaaba is 2,557 km away, 1,589 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Ashgabat, Turkmenistan to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.
The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Ashgabat, Turkmenistan before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.
Put a Ashgabat clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Asia/Ashgabat from the time zone database, so it stays right when Ashgabat changes its clocks, and it shows UTC+5 to every visitor wherever they are reading from. It is a plain iframe: no account, no script to install, nothing to pay.
The box needs 183 pixels of height for these settings, which is what the code above sets, and the numbers show at full size from 305 pixels of width up. Narrower than that they scale down rather than wrapping, and turning a line off makes the box shorter. The code updates with either.
Ashgabat time now: common questions
- What time is it in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan right now?
- 2:42 pm on Sunday November 8, 2026. Ashgabat runs on UTC+5, UTC+5.
- What time zone is Ashgabat in?
- Asia/Ashgabat, currently UTC+5 at UTC+5. 4 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Ashgabat?
- UTC+5 at this instant. It is UTC+5 all year round, with no seasonal change.
- Does Ashgabat observe daylight saving time?
- No. Ashgabat stays on UTC+5 for the whole year.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Ashgabat of New York?
- Ashgabat is 10 hours ahead of New York, where it is 4:42 am right now.
- What time does the sun set in Ashgabat today?
- 6:01 pm, after a sunrise at 7:39 am and 10 hours 22 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Ashgabat?
- 37.95 degrees south, 121.62 degrees west, in the South Pacific Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Ashgabat from London?
- Between 2:00 pm and 6:00 pm in Ashgabat, which is 9:00 am to 1:00 pm in London.
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