Indexed entity
Kabul is the kabul-AF record in Afghanistan: country slug afghanistan, city slug kabul, ISO AF, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Kabul.
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Live local time
Kabul, Afghanistan
03:14:05 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Kabul
Quick answer
It is currently 03:14:05 PM (AFT, UTC+04:30) in Kabul, Afghanistan — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
19°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
25°C
9°C
Wed
25°C
11°C
Thu
27°C
12°C
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
AFN
Live ECB rate not available for this currency.
Conversion rates aren’t published for this currency by the ECB. The local code is shown for reference.
Today
Sunrise
04:41 AM
Sunset
07:01 PM
Day length
14h 20m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Kabul, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:44 AM UTC.
Current local time
03:14:05 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
AFT
Asia/Kabul · UTC+04:30
Next holiday
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Kabul right now
Nearest airport
KBL
Kabul International Airport · 6 km
Indexed airports
1
Curated airport references available for Afghanistan
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Kabul, Afghanistan.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 15:14 GMT+4:30
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Kabul is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+04:30
Zone label
GMT+4:30
London
11:44 AM / -3h 30m
Dubai
02:44 PM / -0h 30m
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
KBL Kabul, 6 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 04:41 AM to 07:01 PM, with solar noon around 11:51 AM and total daylight of 14h 20m.
Mapped location
34.53°N, 69.17°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:44 AM / -3h 30m
Good live-call window with Kabul right now.
New York
06:44 AM / -8h 30m
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:44 AM / -11h 30m
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:44 PM / -0h 30m
Good live-call window with Kabul right now.
Singapore
06:44 PM / +3h 30m
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Kabul.
KBL · Kabul International Airport
Kabul
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Asia/Kabul for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+04:30; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+04:30.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Kabul right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest curated airport reference: KBL Kabul, 6 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Asia/Kabul. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Kabul has no near-term DST change or holiday interruption in view, but future rules can still be revised by local authorities.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Kabul.
Canonical route
/time/afghanistan/kabul/
Catalog identity
kabul-AF · AF · Asia
Coordinate cell
34.53°N, 69.17°E · lat 34.528 · lon 69.172 · cell 3453:6917
Population record
4,434,550 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Asia/Kabul · GMT+4:30 · UTC+04:30
January / July offsets
UTC+04:30 / UTC+04:30
Nearest indexed neighbor
Peshawar, Pakistan · 229 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 1,692 km
Closest airport references
KBL Kabul 6 km
Zone peer roster
Herāt, Afghanistan · Kandahār, Afghanistan · Mazār-e Sharīf, Afghanistan
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Kabul: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Kabul is the kabul-AF record in Afghanistan: country slug afghanistan, city slug kabul, ISO AF, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Kabul.
34.53°N, 69.17°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 34 and longitude band 69; exact decimal pair 34.52813, 69.17233.
Afghanistan: official name Islamic Republic of Afghanistan; capital Kabul; region Asia; subregion Southern Asia; country population 43,844,000; area 652,230 km²; languages Dari, Pashto, Turkmen; currencies AFN Afghan afghani. This is the country layer behind the Kabul clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Afghanistan: Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the northeast, and China to the northeast and east. Occupying 652,864 square kilometers (252,072 sq mi) of land, the country is predominantly mountainous with plains in the north and the southwest, which are separated by the Hindu Kush mountain range. Kabul is the country's capital and largest city. Afghanistan's population is estimated to be between 35 and 50 million. Source: Wikipedia.
Peshawar [peshawar-PK, PK, Asia/Karachi, 229 km]; Mazār-e Sharīf [mazar-e-sharif-AF, AF, Asia/Kabul, 306 km]; Kŭlob [kulob-TJ, TJ, Asia/Dushanbe, 381 km]; Dushanbe [dushanbe-TJ, TJ, Asia/Dushanbe, 447 km]; Kandahār [kandahar-AF, AF, Asia/Kabul, 457 km]; Faisalabad [faisalabad-PK, PK, Asia/Karachi, 503 km]; Lahore [lahore-PK, PK, Asia/Karachi, 585 km]; Istaravshan [istaravshan-TJ, TJ, Asia/Dushanbe, 599 km]
Kabul is part of this indexed country cluster: Kabul [kabul-AF, Asia/Kabul, pop 4,434,550]; Herāt [herat-AF, Asia/Kabul, pop 574,300]; Kandahār [kandahar-AF, Asia/Kabul, pop 523,300]; Mazār-e Sharīf [mazar-e-sharif-AF, Asia/Kabul, pop 523,300].
Dubai 1,692 km; Singapore 5,148 km; London 5,707 km; Tokyo 6,265 km; New York 10,839 km; Sydney 11,428 km; Los Angeles 12,350 km; São Paulo 13,758 km
KBL Kabul International Airport in Kabul [AF, 6 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include KBL Kabul International Airport in Kabul [AF].
Kabul renders Jun 2, 2026 · 15:14 GMT+4:30; GMT+4:30 at UTC+04:30; January UTC+04:30; July UTC+04:30; next holiday not currently surfaced.
This evidence pack keeps the manual city dossier tied to the concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Kabul.
Kabul is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 4 retained Afghanistan city pages. The route is /time/afghanistan/kabul/ and the city id is kabul-AF.
Kabul has 15 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Kabul is pinned at 34.53°N, 69.17°E; Peshawar (229 km); Dubai (1,692 km).
Asia/Kabul resolves to stable UTC+04:30 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Afghanistan.
KBL Kabul International Airport (6 km) · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 1 country airport reference · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Kabul uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Kabul: Kabul is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. It is within the jurisdiction of Kabul District and has an estimated population of 5,333,284 people. Located in the eastern half of the country, forming part of the Kabul Province, the city is administratively divided into five zones and 22 municipal districts. The native population of Kabul primarily speaks Persian, locally referred to as Persian Dari, using regional Dari dialects with a distinctive Kabuli accent. Kabul has long been Afghanistan's political, cultural and economic center. Rapid urbanization has made it the country's primate city. It is located high in a narrow valley in the Hindu Kush mountain range, and is bounded by the Kabul River. At an altitude of 1,791 m (5,876 ft) above sea level, it is one of the highest capital cities in the world. The center of the city contains its oldest neighborhoods, including the areas of Bala Hisar, Deh Afghanan and Murad Khani.
Afghanistan adopted UTC+4:30 in 1944/45 and has retained this half-hour offset without DST ever since.
Afghanistan adopted UTC+4:30 in 1944/45 and has retained this half-hour offset without DST ever since.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+04:30) is constant year-round.
Kabul is listed in the dataset snapshot as 4.5 hours ahead of UTC (offset +04:30). 3.5 hours ahead of London, 4.5 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 69.17°, Kabul's mean solar noon falls about 7 minutes before civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run earlier on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Jun 16 (14h 28m)
Shortest day
Dec 20 (9h 50m)
Year-round average
12h 11m
Annual swing
4h 38m
See the full daylight curve for Kabul at /sun/kabul/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Kabul local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Kabul |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 17:30 - 01:30 (next day) |
| London | Europe/London | 12:30 - 20:30 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 11:30 - 19:30 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 09:30 - 17:30 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 05:30 - 13:30 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 05:30 - 13:30 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 04:30 - 12:30 |
Capital status
National capital of Afghanistan
Kabul is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, with a population estimated at roughly 4.4 million, set in a high valley of the Hindu Kush at about 1,790 metres above sea level. The city observes Afghanistan Time (AFT, UTC+4:30), an unusual half-hour offset shared with no other country and fixed year-round without daylight saving. Strategically positioned on historic trade routes linking Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent, Kabul has been a coveted prize for empires for more than 3,500 years. It has been the national capital since the 18th century and remains the country's political, economic, and cultural centre despite decades of conflict.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Kabul's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 03:14:05 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Kabul (UTC+04:30, AFT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
04:41 AM to 07:01 PM
Day length 14h 20m · Solar noon 11:51 AM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Kabul local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
4.4M
Coordinates
34.53, 69.17
Timezone
Asia/Kabul
Indexed airports
1
Capital
Kabul
Languages
Dari, Pashto
Currency
AFN (؋)
Country area
652,230 km²
Kabul, Afghanistan (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Kabul (AFT, UTC+04:30); population ~4.4M.
Coordinates: 34.53°N, 69.17°E. Northern Hemisphere subtropics, ~3833 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 04:41 AM and sets around 07:01 PM in Kabul — about 14h 20m of daylight. Afghanistan stays on standard time here, so UTC+04:30 is stable through the year.
Peshawar (229 km from Kabul) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Afghanistan.
Kabul is indexed as a Asia city in the AF country record, using Asia/Kabul as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/afghanistan/kabul/.
Location context: 34.53°N, 69.17°E; population 4,434,550; nearest indexed city Peshawar is about 229 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 1,692 km away.
Country planning context: capital Kabul; subregion Southern Asia; languages Dari, Pashto, Turkmen; currency AFN (؋); area 652,230 km²; 1 curated airport references; no upcoming holiday signal currently in view.
Afghanistan adopted UTC+4:30 in 1944/45 and has retained this half-hour offset without DST ever since.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+04:30) is constant year-round.
Kabul is listed in the dataset snapshot as 4.5 hours ahead of UTC (offset +04:30). 3.5 hours ahead of London, 4.5 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 69.17°, Kabul's mean solar noon falls about 7 minutes before civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run earlier on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Kabul sits at 34.53°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 14 hours 19 minutes on the June solstice and about 9 hours 41 minutes on the December solstice.
Major metropolitan area with around 4.4 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Kabul: Herāt (same time), San Francisco (−11.5h), Los Angeles (−11.5h), Tokyo (+4.5h), New York City (−8.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
afghanistan
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
AFT
IANA Zone
Asia/Kabul
UTC Offset
UTC+04:30
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+04:30
Afghanistan
Other cities in this timezone
London
-3h 30m
New York
-8h 30m
Los Angeles
-11h 30m
Dubai
-0h 30m
Singapore
+3h 30m
Tokyo
+4h 30m
Sydney
+5h 30m
São Paulo
-7h 30m
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 Kabul.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Kabul: closest hubs Dubai (~1,692 km), Singapore (~5,148 km), London (~5,707 km); farthest indexed hub São Paulo (~13,758 km).
Kabul sits inside Afghanistan — the Southern Asia subregion, capital Kabul, languages Dari, Pashto, Turkmen, currency AFN (؋).
Closest indexed cities to Kabul: Peshawar (229 km), Mazār-e Sharīf (306 km), Kŭlob (381 km), Dushanbe (447 km).
Closest curated airport references from Kabul: KBL Kabul (6 km).
Kabul International AirportKBL
Kabul · 6 km from Kabul
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 45m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
2 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:44 AM | -3h 30m | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:44 AM | -8h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:44 AM | -11h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:44 PM | -0h 30m | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:44 PM | +3h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:44 PM | +4h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:44 PM | +5h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:44 AM | -7h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
Kabul is in the Asia/Kabul timezone (AFT), with a UTC offset of +04:30.
Kabul does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+04:30 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Kabul is UTC+04:30.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Kabul, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 15:14 GMT+4:30. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Kabul sits at 34.53°N, 69.17°E in Afghanistan, with about 4.4M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Kabul is Dubai, about 1,692 km away as the crow flies.
Peshawar is the closest indexed city, roughly 229 km from Kabul.
Kabul International Airport (KBL) is the closest curated airport reference, about 6 km from Kabul.
Kabul uses Afghan afghani (AFN, symbol ؋) as the local currency of Afghanistan.
The longest day of 2026 in Kabul falls on Jun 16 with about 14h 28m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 20 with 9h 50m; the year-round average is 12h 11m.
In Kabul local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 17:30-01:30 (next day); London 12:30-20:30; Frankfurt 11:30-19:30; Dubai 09:30-17:30. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.