Indexed entity
Bishkek is the bishkek-KG record in Kyrgyzstan: country slug kyrgyzstan, city slug bishkek, ISO KG, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Bishkek.
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Live local time
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
05:29:41 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Bishkek
Quick answer
It is currently 05:29:41 PM (KGT, UTC+06:00) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan — Afternoon.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
21°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
25°C
13°C
63% rain
Wed
24°C
14°C
78% rain
Thu
23°C
13°C
87% rain
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
KGS
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
05:25 AM
Sunset
08:34 PM
Day length
15h 9m
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 Bishkek, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 11:29 AM UTC.
Current local time
05:29:41 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
KGT
Asia/Bishkek · UTC+06:00
Next holiday
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Bishkek right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Bishkek
Indexed airports
0
Curated airport references available for Kyrgyzstan
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 17:29 GMT+6
No reference-city overlap right now
Bishkek is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC+06:00
Zone label
GMT+6
London
12:29 PM / -5h
New York
07:29 AM / -10h
Los Angeles
04:29 AM / -13h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
Almaty, 193 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:25 AM to 08:34 PM, with solar noon around 01:00 PM and total daylight of 15h 9m.
Mapped location
42.87°N, 74.59°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
12:29 PM / -5h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
07:29 AM / -10h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
04:29 AM / -13h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
03:29 PM / -2h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
07:29 PM / +2h
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 Bishkek.
No curated airport is currently mapped close enough to show as a planning cue.
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Asia/Bishkek for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+06:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+06:00.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps Bishkek right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest mapped context: Almaty, 193 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Asia/Bishkek. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Bishkek 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 Bishkek.
Canonical route
/time/kyrgyzstan/bishkek/
Catalog identity
bishkek-KG · KG · Asia
Coordinate cell
42.87°N, 74.59°E · lat 42.870 · lon 74.590 · cell 4287:7459
Population record
900,000 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Asia/Bishkek · GMT+6 · UTC+06:00
January / July offsets
UTC+06:00 / UTC+06:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Almaty, Kazakhstan · 193 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 2,638 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Bishkek
Zone peer roster
Osh, Kyrgyzstan · Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan · Karakol, Kyrgyzstan
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Bishkek: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Bishkek is the bishkek-KG record in Kyrgyzstan: country slug kyrgyzstan, city slug bishkek, ISO KG, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Bishkek.
42.87°N, 74.59°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 42 and longitude band 74; exact decimal pair 42.87000, 74.59000.
Kyrgyzstan: official name Kyrgyz Republic; capital Bishkek; region Asia; subregion Central Asia; country population 7,281,800; area 199,951 km²; languages Kyrgyz, Russian; currencies KGS Kyrgyzstani som. This is the country layer behind the Bishkek clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, formerly known as Kirghizia, is a landlocked country in the eastern regions of Central Asia, lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir mountain ranges. It is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and China to the east and southeast. Kyrgyzstan's capital and largest city is Bishkek which lies on the northern border with Kazakhstan. Ethnic Kyrgyz make up the majority of the country's over 7.4 million people, followed by significant minorities of Uzbeks and Russians. Source: Wikipedia.
Almaty [almaty-KZ, KZ, Asia/Almaty, 193 km]; Jalal-Abad [jalal-abad-KG, KG, Asia/Bishkek, 252 km]; Andijon [andijon-UZ, UZ, Asia/Tashkent, 297 km]; Osh [osh-KG, KG, Asia/Bishkek, 300 km]; Karakol [karakol-KG, KG, Asia/Bishkek, 314 km]; Namangan [namangan-UZ, UZ, Asia/Tashkent, 319 km]; Shymkent [shymkent-KZ, KZ, Asia/Almaty, 413 km]; Isfara [isfara-TJ, TJ, Asia/Dushanbe, 449 km]
Bishkek is part of this indexed country cluster: Bishkek [bishkek-KG, Asia/Bishkek, pop 900,000]; Osh [osh-KG, Asia/Bishkek, pop 322,164]; Jalal-Abad [jalal-abad-KG, Asia/Bishkek, pop 123,239]; Karakol [karakol-KG, Asia/Bishkek, pop 84,351].
Dubai 2,638 km; Singapore 5,454 km; London 5,477 km; Tokyo 5,518 km; New York 10,201 km; Los Angeles 11,363 km; Sydney 11,541 km; São Paulo 14,269 km
Bishkek has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Kyrgyzstan.
Bishkek renders Jun 2, 2026 · 17:29 GMT+6; GMT+6 at UTC+06:00; January UTC+06:00; July UTC+06:00; 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 Bishkek.
Bishkek is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 4 retained Kyrgyzstan city pages. The route is /time/kyrgyzstan/bishkek/ and the city id is bishkek-KG.
Bishkek has 13 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.
Bishkek is pinned at 42.87°N, 74.59°E; Almaty (193 km); Dubai (2,638 km).
Asia/Bishkek resolves to stable UTC+06:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Kyrgyzstan.
Bishkek has no direct nearby-airport handoff · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 0 country airport references · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Bishkek 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.
Bishkek: Bishkek, formerly known as Pishpek, and then Frunze (1926–1991), is the capital and largest urban city of Kyrgyzstan. The city is also the capital of the Chüy Region. It is situated near the border with Kazakhstan and has a population of around 1,200,000 people as of 2024.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+06:00) is constant year-round.
Bishkek is listed in the dataset snapshot as 6 hours ahead of UTC (offset +06:00). 5 hours ahead of London, 3 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 74.59°, Bishkek's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 2 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.
Bishkek sits at 42.87°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 10 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 50 minutes on the December solstice.
Bishkek sits at 42.87°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 10 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 50 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 21m)
Shortest day
Dec 18 (9h 1m)
Year-round average
12h 13m
Annual swing
6h 20m
See the full daylight curve for Bishkek at /sun/bishkek/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Bishkek local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Bishkek |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 19:00 - 03:00 (next day) |
| London | Europe/London | 14:00 - 22:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 13:00 - 21:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 11:00 - 19:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 09:30 - 17:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 07:00 - 15:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 07:00 - 15:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 06:00 - 14:00 |
Capital status
National capital of Kyrgyzstan
Bishkek is the capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan, home to roughly 1.1 million residents in the city proper and around 1.3 million across the wider metropolitan area at the foot of the Kyrgyz Ala-Too range. Founded as a Russian fortress in the 19th century, it spent much of the Soviet era as Frunze, renamed in 1926 after the Bolshevik commander Mikhail Frunze, before reverting to Bishkek shortly before Kyrgyz independence in 1991. Soviet-era planning still shapes the city, with broad tree-lined avenues, neoclassical ministries around Ala-Too Square, and grid-pattern microdistricts ringing the centre. Bishkek observes Kyrgyzstan Time (KGT, UTC+6) year-round and does not use daylight saving; the IANA zone is Asia/Bishkek. It serves as the country's political, financial, educational and cultural hub.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-23 (research).
Reference fields include Bishkek's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 05:29:41 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Bishkek (UTC+06:00, KGT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:25 AM to 08:34 PM
Day length 15h 9m · Solar noon 01:00 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Bishkek local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
900K
Coordinates
42.87, 74.59
Timezone
Asia/Bishkek
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Bishkek
Languages
Kyrgyz, Russian
Currency
KGS (с)
Country area
199,951 km²
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Bishkek (KGT, UTC+06:00); population ~900K.
Coordinates: 42.87°N, 74.59°E. Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, ~4759 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:25 AM and sets around 08:34 PM in Bishkek — about 15h 9m of daylight. Kyrgyzstan stays on standard time here, so UTC+06:00 is stable through the year.
Almaty (193 km from Bishkek) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Kyrgyzstan.
Bishkek is indexed as a Asia city in the KG country record, using Asia/Bishkek as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/kyrgyzstan/bishkek/.
Location context: 42.87°N, 74.59°E; population 900,000; nearest indexed city Almaty is about 193 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 2,638 km away.
Country planning context: capital Bishkek; subregion Central Asia; languages Kyrgyz, Russian; currency KGS (с); area 199,951 km²; 0 curated airport references; no upcoming holiday signal currently in view.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+06:00) is constant year-round.
Bishkek is listed in the dataset snapshot as 6 hours ahead of UTC (offset +06:00). 5 hours ahead of London, 3 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 74.59°, Bishkek's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 2 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.
Bishkek sits at 42.87°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 10 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 50 minutes on the December solstice.
Sizeable city with about 900 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Bishkek: Osh (same time), San Francisco (−13h), Los Angeles (−13h), New York City (−10h), Paris (−4h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
kyrgyzstan
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
KGT
IANA Zone
Asia/Bishkek
UTC Offset
UTC+06:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+06:00
Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, British Indian Ocean Territory, Kyrgyzstan, Russia
Other cities in this timezone
London
-5h
New York
-10h
Los Angeles
-13h
Dubai
-2h
Singapore
+2h
Tokyo
+3h
Sydney
+4h
São Paulo
-9h
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 Bishkek.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Bishkek: closest hubs Dubai (~2,638 km), Singapore (~5,454 km), London (~5,477 km); farthest indexed hub São Paulo (~14,269 km).
Bishkek sits inside Kyrgyzstan — the Central Asia subregion, capital Bishkek, languages Kyrgyz, Russian, currency KGS (с).
Closest indexed cities to Bishkek: Almaty (193 km), Jalal-Abad (252 km), Andijon (297 km), Osh (300 km).
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Bishkek, so this page falls back to timezone and regional planning context instead of showing a broken travel panel.
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
0 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 12:29 PM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 07:29 AM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 04:29 AM | -13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 03:29 PM | -2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 07:29 PM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 08:29 PM | +3h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 09:29 PM | +4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 08:29 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
Bishkek is in the Asia/Bishkek timezone (KGT), with a UTC offset of +06:00.
Bishkek does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+06:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Bishkek is UTC+06:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Bishkek, 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 · 17:29 GMT+6. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Bishkek sits at 42.87°N, 74.59°E in Kyrgyzstan, with about 900K residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Bishkek is Dubai, about 2,638 km away as the crow flies.
Almaty is the closest indexed city, roughly 193 km from Bishkek.
Bishkek uses Kyrgyzstani som (KGS, symbol с) as the local currency of Kyrgyzstan.
The longest day of 2026 in Bishkek falls on Jun 19 with about 15h 21m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 18 with 9h 1m; the year-round average is 12h 13m.
In Bishkek local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 19:00-03:00 (next day); London 14:00-22:00; Frankfurt 13:00-21:00; Dubai 11:00-19:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.