Indexed entity
Shymkent is the shymkent-KZ record in Kazakhstan: country slug kazakhstan, city slug shymkent, ISO KZ, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Almaty.
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Live local time
Shymkent, Kazakhstan
03:45:01 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Almaty
Quick answer
It is currently 03:45:01 PM (GMT+5, UTC+05:00) in Shymkent, Kazakhstan — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
22°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
28°C
14°C
42% rain
Wed
26°C
16°C
80% rain
Thu
25°C
16°C
43% rain
In 34 days
Астана күні (Capital City Day)
Mon, Jul 6, 2026
PublicIn 89 days
Конституция күні (Constitution Day)
Sun, Aug 30, 2026
PublicIn 145 days
Республика күні (Republic Day)
Sun, Oct 25, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
KZT
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
04:47 AM
Sunset
07:52 PM
Day length
15h 5m
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 Shymkent, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:45 AM UTC.
Current local time
03:45:01 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
GMT+5
Asia/Almaty · UTC+05:00
Next holiday
Capital City Day
Monday, July 6, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Shymkent right now
Nearest airport
ALA
Almaty International Airport · 618 km
Indexed airports
1
Curated airport references available for Kazakhstan
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Shymkent, Kazakhstan.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 15:45 GMT+5
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Shymkent is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+05:00
Zone label
GMT+5
London
11:45 AM / -4h
Dubai
02:45 PM / -1h
Schedule risk
Capital City Day on Monday, July 6, 2026
Travel cue
ALA Almaty, 618 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 04:47 AM to 07:52 PM, with solar noon around 12:20 PM and total daylight of 15h 5m.
Mapped location
42.31°N, 69.60°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:45 AM / -4h
Good live-call window with Shymkent right now.
New York
06:45 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:45 AM / -12h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:45 PM / -1h
Good live-call window with Shymkent right now.
Singapore
06:45 PM / +3h
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 Shymkent.
ALA · Almaty International Airport
Almaty
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Asia/Almaty for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+05:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+05:00.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Shymkent right now.
Check local interruptions
Capital City Day on Monday, July 6, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: ALA Almaty, 618 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Asia/Almaty. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Shymkent has no near-term DST change in view, but Capital City Day can still affect office coverage and local response times.
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 Shymkent.
Canonical route
/time/kazakhstan/shymkent/
Catalog identity
shymkent-KZ · KZ · Asia
Coordinate cell
42.31°N, 69.60°E · lat 42.310 · lon 69.600 · cell 4231:6960
Population record
1,200,000 residents · country rank 2
Zone snapshot
Asia/Almaty · GMT+5 · UTC+05:00
January / July offsets
UTC+05:00 / UTC+05:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Tashkent, Uzbekistan · 121 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 2,311 km
Closest airport references
ALA Almaty 618 km
Zone peer roster
Almaty, Kazakhstan · Aktobe, Kazakhstan · Karagandy, Kazakhstan
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Shymkent: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Shymkent is the shymkent-KZ record in Kazakhstan: country slug kazakhstan, city slug shymkent, ISO KZ, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Almaty.
42.31°N, 69.60°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 42 and longitude band 69; exact decimal pair 42.30988, 69.60042.
Kazakhstan: official name Republic of Kazakhstan; capital Astana; region Asia; subregion Central Asia; country population 20,426,568; area 2,724,900 km²; languages Kazakh, Russian; currencies KZT Kazakhstani tenge. This is the country layer behind the Shymkent clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Kazakhstan: Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country situated primarily in Central Asia, with a portion of its territory extending into Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbekistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, and it has a coastline along the Caspian Sea. The capital is Astana and the country's largest city and principal cultural and economic center is Almaty, which served as the capital until 1997. Source: Wikipedia.
Tashkent [tashkent-UZ, UZ, Asia/Tashkent, 121 km]; Namangan [namangan-UZ, UZ, Asia/Tashkent, 226 km]; Isfara [isfara-TJ, TJ, Asia/Dushanbe, 257 km]; Istaravshan [istaravshan-TJ, TJ, Asia/Dushanbe, 271 km]; Andijon [andijon-UZ, UZ, Asia/Tashkent, 285 km]; Jalal-Abad [jalal-abad-KG, KG, Asia/Bishkek, 320 km]; Osh [osh-KG, KG, Asia/Bishkek, 332 km]; Samarkand [samarkand-UZ, UZ, Asia/Tashkent, 369 km]
Shymkent is part of this indexed country cluster: Almaty [almaty-KZ, Asia/Almaty, pop 1,977,011]; Shymkent [shymkent-KZ, Asia/Almaty, pop 1,200,000]; Aktobe [aktobe-KZ, Asia/Almaty, pop 500,757]; Karagandy [karagandy-KZ, Asia/Almaty, pop 497,777].
Dubai 2,311 km; London 5,188 km; Singapore 5,688 km; Tokyo 5,927 km; New York 10,085 km; Los Angeles 11,486 km; Sydney 11,852 km; São Paulo 13,861 km
ALA Almaty International Airport in Almaty [KZ, 618 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include ALA Almaty International Airport in Almaty [KZ].
Shymkent renders Jun 2, 2026 · 15:45 GMT+5; GMT+5 at UTC+05:00; January UTC+05:00; July UTC+05:00; next holiday Capital City Day on 2026-07-06.
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 Shymkent.
Shymkent is a manual-dossier city; rank #2 of 4 retained Kazakhstan city pages. The route is /time/kazakhstan/shymkent/ and the city id is shymkent-KZ.
Shymkent has 16 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.
Shymkent is pinned at 42.31°N, 69.60°E; Tashkent (121 km); Dubai (2,311 km).
Asia/Almaty resolves to stable UTC+05:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Kazakhstan.
ALA Almaty International Airport (618 km) · Capital City Day (Monday, July 6, 2026) · 1 country airport reference · 13 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Shymkent 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.
Shymkent: Shymkent is a city in southern Kazakhstan, located near the border with Uzbekistan. It holds the status of a city of republican significance, one of only three cities in Kazakhstan with this distinction, alongside Almaty and Astana. As of June 2018, Shymkent had an estimated population of 1,002,291, making it the third-most populous city in the country, after Almaty and Astana.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+05:00) is constant year-round.
Shymkent is listed in the dataset snapshot as 5 hours ahead of UTC (offset +05:00). 4 hours ahead of London, 4 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 69.60°, Shymkent's mean solar noon falls about 22 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Shymkent sits at 42.31°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 6 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 54 minutes on the December solstice.
Shymkent sits at 42.31°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 6 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 54 minutes on the December solstice.
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 19 (15h 17m)
Shortest day
Dec 17 (9h 5m)
Year-round average
12h 13m
Annual swing
6h 12m
See the full daylight curve for Shymkent at /sun/shymkent/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Shymkent local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Shymkent |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 18:00 - 02:00 (next day) |
| London | Europe/London | 13:00 - 21:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 12:00 - 20:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 08:30 - 16:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 06:00 - 14:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 06:00 - 14:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 05:00 - 13:00 |
Public holidays in 2026
13
Shymkent is the third-largest city in Kazakhstan after Almaty and the capital Astana, and one of only three Kazakh cities with more than a million residents. In 2018 it was granted special status as a city of republican significance, separate from the surrounding Turkistan Region. It runs on UTC+5 year-round, the time zone used across western and southern Kazakhstan, with no daylight saving. Located in the south of the country near the border with Uzbekistan, Shymkent lies on the historic Silk Road and grew around a medieval caravan settlement. It is a centre of industry, including oil refining and lead processing, and serves as the urban anchor of one of Kazakhstan's most populous and agriculturally productive regions.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Shymkent's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 03:45:01 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Shymkent (UTC+05:00, GMT+5).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
04:47 AM to 07:52 PM
Day length 15h 5m · Solar noon 12:20 PM
Next country holiday
Capital City Day
Monday, July 6, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Shymkent local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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187 days to go
Population
1.2M
Coordinates
42.31, 69.60
Timezone
Asia/Almaty
Indexed airports
1
Capital
Astana
Languages
Kazakh, Russian
Currency
KZT (₸)
Country area
2,724,900 km²
Shymkent, Kazakhstan (population rank #2 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Almaty (GMT+5, UTC+05:00); population ~1.2M.
Coordinates: 42.31°N, 69.60°E. Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, ~4696 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 04:47 AM and sets around 07:52 PM in Shymkent — about 15h 5m of daylight. Kazakhstan stays on standard time here, so UTC+05:00 is stable through the year.
Tashkent (121 km from Shymkent) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Kazakhstan.
Next national holiday: Capital City Day, 2026-07-06.
Shymkent is indexed as a Asia city in the KZ country record, using Asia/Almaty as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/kazakhstan/shymkent/.
Location context: 42.31°N, 69.60°E; population 1,200,000; nearest indexed city Tashkent is about 121 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 2,311 km away.
Country planning context: capital Astana; subregion Central Asia; languages Kazakh, Russian; currency KZT (₸); area 2,724,900 km²; 1 curated airport references; next holiday Capital City Day on 2026-07-06.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+05:00) is constant year-round.
Shymkent is listed in the dataset snapshot as 5 hours ahead of UTC (offset +05:00). 4 hours ahead of London, 4 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 69.60°, Shymkent's mean solar noon falls about 22 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Shymkent sits at 42.31°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 6 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 54 minutes on the December solstice.
Major metropolitan area with around 1.2 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Shymkent: Almaty (same time), San Francisco (−12h), Los Angeles (−12h), New York City (−9h), Paris (−3h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
kazakhstan
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
GMT+5
IANA Zone
Asia/Almaty
UTC Offset
UTC+05:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
London
-4h
New York
-9h
Los Angeles
-12h
Dubai
-1h
Singapore
+3h
Tokyo
+4h
Sydney
+5h
São Paulo
-8h
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 Shymkent.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Shymkent: closest hubs Dubai (~2,311 km), London (~5,188 km), Singapore (~5,688 km); farthest indexed hub São Paulo (~13,861 km).
Shymkent sits inside Kazakhstan — the Central Asia subregion, capital Astana, languages Kazakh, Russian, currency KZT (₸).
Closest indexed cities to Shymkent: Tashkent (121 km), Namangan (226 km), Isfara (257 km), Istaravshan (271 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Shymkent: Capital City Day, Constitution Day, Republic Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Kazakhstan.
Closest curated airport references from Shymkent: ALA Almaty (618 km).
Almaty International AirportALA
Almaty · 618 km from Shymkent
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 33m
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 | 11:45 AM | -4h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:45 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:45 AM | -12h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:45 PM | -1h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:45 PM | +3h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:45 PM | +4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:45 PM | +5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:45 AM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
Shymkent is in the Asia/Almaty timezone (GMT+5), with a UTC offset of +05:00.
Shymkent does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+05:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Shymkent is UTC+05:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Shymkent, 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 · 15:45 GMT+5. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Shymkent sits at 42.31°N, 69.60°E in Kazakhstan, with about 1.2M residents (rank #2 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Shymkent is Dubai, about 2,311 km away as the crow flies.
Tashkent is the closest indexed city, roughly 121 km from Shymkent.
Almaty International Airport (ALA) is the closest curated airport reference, about 618 km from Shymkent.
Capital City Day is the next upcoming holiday in Kazakhstan, on Monday, July 6, 2026.
Shymkent uses Kazakhstani tenge (KZT, symbol ₸) as the local currency of Kazakhstan.
The longest day of 2026 in Shymkent falls on Jun 19 with about 15h 17m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 17 with 9h 5m; the year-round average is 12h 13m.
In Shymkent local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 18:00-02:00 (next day); London 13:00-21:00; Frankfurt 12:00-20:00; Dubai 10:00-18:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.