Current time in Pyongyang, North Korea right now

It is 5:06 pm in Pyongyang, North Korea 🇰🇵 right now, on Thursday, November 5, 2026. The city keeps Asia/Pyongyang, which is UTC+9 at UTC+9, so Pyongyang is 9 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 8:06 am. The sun rose in Pyongyang at 7:08 am and sets at 5:32 pm, which is 10 hours 24 minutes of daylight.

What time is it in Pyongyang right now?

The time in Pyongyang, North Korea is 5:06 pm, 17:06 on a 24 hour clock, on Thursday November 5, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Asia/Pyongyang rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.

Pyongyang sits at 39.03 degrees north and 125.75 degrees east, at a middle latitude and 4,340 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 135.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 9.2 degrees west of that line. Those 9.2 degrees are worth 36 minutes 59 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:21 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.

Pyongyang time zone and UTC offset

The IANA zone for Pyongyang, North Korea is Asia/Pyongyang. Right now it is running at UTC+9 and the abbreviation in force is UTC+9. Pyongyang does not change its clocks at any point in the year. The offset stays at UTC+9 in January and in July alike, so no conversion involving Pyongyang ever needs a seasonal footnote.

Daylight hours in Pyongyang today

The sun rose in Pyongyang at 7:08 am and sets at 5:32 pm, which is 10 hours 24 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Pyongyang, is at 12:21 pm, which is 21 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -15.66 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 35.3 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.

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 Pyongyang, which works from the same coordinates.

Where Pyongyang 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.

Time difference between Pyongyang 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 Pyongyang.

Best time to call Pyongyang

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.

Other cities in North Korea

We cover 29 cities in North Korea. These are the ones nearest to Pyongyang, with the time on their clocks right now.

Cities on Asia/Pyongyang time

29 of our cities keep Asia/Pyongyang, so every one of them reads 5:06 pm at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Pyongyang. Nearest first:

Moon phase over Pyongyang tonight

The moon is a waning crescent tonight, 25.7 days into its cycle and about 16% lit. The next full moon falls on November 24, 2026 at 11:53 pm Pyongyang time, and the next new moon on November 9, 2026 at 4:01 pm. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Pyongyang clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.

When the clocks change in Pyongyang

There is no clock change scheduled in Asia/Pyongyang within the next 400 days, so Pyongyang stays at UTC+9 for the whole of that stretch.

That makes Pyongyang 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 Pyongyang is from other cities

Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Pyongyang is Man'gyongdae-ri, North Korea at 9 km, and the furthest is Mar del Plata, Argentina at 19,705 km, which is 98% of the way to being exactly opposite.

The antipode of Pyongyang

Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Pyongyang, North Korea and you come out at 39.03 degrees south, 54.25 degrees west. That point is near Mar del Plata, Argentina. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Mar del Plata, Argentina, 310 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 5:06 am on Thursday.

The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 39.03 degrees north becomes 39.03 degrees south, and 125.75 degrees east becomes 54.25 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Pyongyang is one of the exceptions, with dry land on the far side. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-3, roughly twelve hours from Pyongyang, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.

Sunrise and sunset in Pyongyang

Today the sun rises in Pyongyang at 7:08 am and sets at 5:32 pm, giving 10 hours 24 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 Pyongyang.

Sun and moon in Pyongyang today

The sun is up in Pyongyang for 10 hours 24 minutes today, from 7:08 am to 5:32 pm. The moon rises in Pyongyang at 2:48 am and sets at 3:16 pm. The next phase is the new moon on November 9, 2026. It is 17% lit at the moment, a waning crescent, thinning by about 8.1 percentage points a day.

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.

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.

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.

Prayer times in Pyongyang

Seven days from November 5, 2026, computed for Pyongyang, North Korea at 39.03 degrees north, 125.75 degrees east, on the clock of Asia/Pyongyang. 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.

Dhuhr is solar noon at Pyongyang, North Korea, 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 Pyongyang

From Pyongyang, North Korea the qibla is 284.6 degrees on a true compass, which is west-northwest, or 14.6 degrees south of due west. The Kaaba is 8,190 km away, 5,089 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Pyongyang, North Korea 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 Pyongyang, North Korea 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.

Pyongyang time now: common questions

What time is it in Pyongyang, North Korea right now?

5:06 pm on Thursday November 5, 2026. Pyongyang runs on UTC+9, UTC+9.

What time zone is Pyongyang in?

Asia/Pyongyang, currently UTC+9 at UTC+9. 29 of the cities on this site keep that zone.

What is the UTC offset for Pyongyang?

UTC+9 at this instant. It is UTC+9 all year round, with no seasonal change.

Does Pyongyang observe daylight saving time?

No. Pyongyang stays on UTC+9 for the whole year.

How many hours ahead or behind is Pyongyang of New York?

Pyongyang is 14 hours ahead of New York, where it is 3:06 am right now.

What time does the sun set in Pyongyang today?

5:32 pm, after a sunrise at 7:08 am and 10 hours 24 minutes of daylight.

What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Pyongyang?

39.03 degrees south, 54.25 degrees west, near Mar del Plata, Argentina.

When is the best time to call Pyongyang from London?

There is no shared working hour: London is 9 hours behind of Pyongyang, which puts the two working days apart.

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