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Kowŏn-ŭp, Nordkorea
05:12:38 PMWednesday, April 29, 2026 · Asia/Pyongyang
Kowon County
County in South Hamgyong Province, North Korea
Aktuelle Ortszeit
05:12:38 PM
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Zeitzone
KST
Asia/Pyongyang · UTC+09:00
Nächster Feiertag
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Geschäftsüberschneidung jetzt
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Kowŏn-ŭp right now
Nächster Flughafen
FNJ
Pyongyang Sunan International Airport · 137 km
Indexierte Flughäfen
1
Curated airport references available for Nordkorea
Snapshot at render time: 05:12:38 PM on Wednesday, April 29, 2026 in Kowŏn-ŭp (UTC+09:00, KST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 119
Days Remaining
246
Current weather
20°C, Clear sky
Feels like 16°C · Humidity 44% · Wind 20 km/h
Sunrise and sunset
05:34 AM to 07:22 PM
Day length 13h 48m · Solar noon 12:28 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Kowŏn-ŭp local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
21.5K
Coordinates
39.44, 127.24
Timezone
Asia/Pyongyang
Indexierte Flughäfen
1
Capital
Pyongyang
Languages
Korean
Currency
KPW (₩)
Country area
120,538 km²
Local time in Kowŏn-ŭp runs on the KST, UTC+09:00 clock; with roughly 21.5K residents the city (rank #84 by population in this dataset) is a working reference point inside Nordkorea.
The coordinates 39.44°N, 127.24°E put Kowŏn-ŭp roughly 4378 km from the equator in the mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, which is why the page expects clear seasonal daylight differences across the year.
Today the sun rises around 05:34 AM and sets around 07:22 PM in Kowŏn-ŭp — about 13h 48m of daylight. Nordkorea stays on standard time here, so UTC+09:00 is stable through the year.
Wŏnsan (36 km from Kowŏn-ŭp) gives this page its nearest commuter and travel cluster, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Nordkorea.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Timezone
KST
IANA Zone
Asia/Pyongyang
UTC Offset
UTC+09:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 119
Days Remaining
246
Quarter
Q2
London
-8h
New York
-13h
Los Angeles
-16h
Dubai
-5h
Singapore
-1h
Tokyo
+0h
Sydney
+1h
São Paulo
-12h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Kowŏn-ŭp.
Kowŏn County is a county in South Hamgyŏng province, North Korea. It lies at the southern tip of the province.
Distance-wise, Kowŏn-ŭp is closest to Tokyo (~1,170 km), Singapore (~4,855 km), Dubai (~6,769 km); São Paulo is the far end at roughly 18,157 km. That ordering matters more than the timezone label for travel planning.
Kowŏn-ŭp sits inside Nordkorea — the Eastern Asia subregion, capital Pyongyang, languages Korean, currency KPW (₩).
Around Kowŏn-ŭp, the nearest mapped reference cities are Wŏnsan (36 km), Anbyŏn-ŭp (50 km), Hŭngnam (56 km), Hamhŭng (59 km); treat them as the de-facto regional cluster for KST planning.
Closest curated airport references from Kowŏn-ŭp: FNJ Pyongyang (137 km).
In 2015, A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
Pyongyang Sunan International AirportFNJ
Pyongyang · 137 km from Kowŏn-ŭp
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 56m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
On this day
2015: A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
2013: A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people.
2013: National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing all seven people on board.
Coordination pulse
0 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 09:12 AM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 04:12 AM | -13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 01:12 AM | -16h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 12:12 PM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 04:12 PM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 05:12 PM | +0h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 06:12 PM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 05:12 AM | -12h | Check the overlap widget below |
Kowŏn-ŭp liegt in der Zeitzone Asia/Pyongyang (KST), mit einem UTC-Versatz von +09:00.
Kowŏn-ŭp beachtet derzeit nicht die Sommerzeit.
Der aktuelle UTC-Versatz für Kowŏn-ŭp ist UTC+09:00.
Kowŏn-ŭp sits at 39.44°N, 127.24°E in Nordkorea, with about 21.5K residents (rank #84 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Kowŏn-ŭp is Tokyo, about 1,170 km away as the crow flies.
Wŏnsan is the closest indexed city, roughly 36 km from Kowŏn-ŭp.
Pyongyang Sunan International Airport (FNJ) is the closest curated airport reference, about 137 km from Kowŏn-ŭp.
