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Hongwŏn, Corea del Nord
06:13:09 PMWednesday, April 29, 2026 · Asia/Pyongyang
Hongwon County
County in South Hamgyong Province, North Korea
Ora locale attuale
06:13:09 PM
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Fuso orario
KST
Asia/Pyongyang · UTC+09:00
Prossima festività
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Sovrapposizione lavorativa ora
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Hongwŏn right now
Aeroporto più vicino
FNJ
Pyongyang Sunan International Airport · 215 km
Aeroporti indicizzati
1
Curated airport references available for Corea del Nord
Snapshot at render time: 06:13:09 PM on Wednesday, April 29, 2026 in Hongwŏn (UTC+09:00, KST).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 119
Days Remaining
246
Current weather
15°C, Clear sky
Feels like 13°C · Humidity 62% · Wind 8 km/h
Sunrise and sunset
05:30 AM to 07:20 PM
Day length 13h 50m · Solar noon 12:25 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Hongwŏn local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower 2026 Peak
spacemercoledì 6 maggio 2026
7 days to go
Code with Claude San Francisco 2026
keynotemercoledì 6 maggio 2026
7 days to go
Mother's Day (US) 2026
festival-seculardomenica 10 maggio 2026
11 days to go
Gemini 3 Launch (rumored at Google I/O)
release-techmartedì 12 maggio 2026
13 days to go
48th ASEAN Summit — Cebu
politicalvenerdì 15 maggio 2026
16 days to go
Gemini 3 Ultra Launch (estimated window)
keynotevenerdì 15 maggio 2026
16 days to go
Population
70.9K
Coordinates
40.03, 127.96
Timezone
Asia/Pyongyang
Aeroporti indicizzati
1
Capital
Pyongyang
Languages
Korean
Currency
KPW (₩)
Country area
120,538 km²
Local time in Hongwŏn runs on the KST, UTC+09:00 clock; with roughly 70.9K residents the city (rank #41 by population in this dataset) is a working reference point inside Corea del Nord.
Geographically, Hongwŏn is at 40.03°N, 127.96°E — that places it in the Northern Hemisphere's mid-latitudes, about 4443 km from the equator, with clear seasonal daylight differences across the year.
Today the sun rises around 05:30 AM and sets around 07:20 PM in Hongwŏn — about 13h 50m of daylight. Corea del Nord stays on standard time here, so UTC+09:00 is stable through the year.
Samho-rodongjagu (11 km from Hongwŏn) gives this page its nearest commuter and travel cluster, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Corea del Nord.
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 Hongwŏn.
Hongwŏn County (Hongwon-gun) is a county in South Hamgyŏng province, North Korea. It is flanked by the Sea of Japan to the south, and by the Hamgyŏng Mountains to the north.
From Hongwŏn the nearest of our reference hubs are Tokyo (~1,134 km), Singapore (~4,943 km), Dubai (~6,817 km), while São Paulo sits about 18,114 km away — useful framing when someone needs a feel for whether a meeting is a regional hop or an intercontinental call.
Hongwŏn sits inside Corea del Nord — the Eastern Asia subregion, capital Pyongyang, languages Korean, currency KPW (₩).
Samho-rodongjagu (11 km), Yuktae-dong (17 km), Sinp’o (20 km), Hŭngnam (34 km) are the nearest cities WorldClockTools indexes around Hongwŏn — that's the cluster to use when scheduling spills past the city limits.
Closest curated airport references from Hongwŏn: FNJ Pyongyang (215 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 · 215 km from Hongwŏn
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 2m
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 | 10:13 AM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 05:13 AM | -13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 02:13 AM | -16h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 01:13 PM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 05:13 PM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 06:13 PM | +0h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 07:13 PM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 06:13 AM | -12h | Check the overlap widget below |
Samho-rodongjagu
Corea del Nord
Approx. 11 km away
Yuktae-dong
Corea del Nord
Approx. 17 km away
Sinp’o
Corea del Nord
Approx. 20 km away
Hŭngnam
Corea del Nord
Approx. 34 km away
Hamhŭng
Corea del Nord
Approx. 38 km away
Yŏnggwang-ŭp
Corea del Nord
Approx. 43 km away
Iwŏn-ŭp
Corea del Nord
Approx. 68 km away
Kowŏn-ŭp
Corea del Nord
Approx. 89 km away
Hongwŏn si trova nel fuso orario Asia/Pyongyang (KST), con uno scostamento UTC di +09:00.
Hongwŏn non sta attualmente osservando l'ora legale.
Lo scostamento UTC attuale per Hongwŏn è UTC+09:00.
Hongwŏn sits at 40.03°N, 127.96°E in Corea del Nord, with about 70.9K residents (rank #41 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Hongwŏn is Tokyo, about 1,134 km away as the crow flies.
Samho-rodongjagu is the closest indexed city, roughly 11 km from Hongwŏn.
Pyongyang Sunan International Airport (FNJ) is the closest curated airport reference, about 215 km from Hongwŏn.