Indexed entity
Karakol is the karakol-KG record in Kyrgyzstan: country slug kyrgyzstan, city slug karakol, ISO KG, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Bishkek.
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Live local time
Karakol, Kyrgyzstan
04:45:07 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Bishkek
Quick answer
It is currently 04:45:07 PM (KGT, UTC+06:00) in Karakol, Kyrgyzstan — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
15°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
17°C
7°C
41% rain
Wed
19°C
7°C
78% rain
Thu
18°C
10°C
76% 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
05:11 AM
Sunset
08:17 PM
Day length
15h 6m
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 Karakol, 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
04:45:07 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
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Karakol right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Karakol
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 Karakol, Kyrgyzstan.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 16:45 GMT+6
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Karakol is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+06:00
Zone label
GMT+6
London
11:45 AM / -5h
Dubai
02:45 PM / -2h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
Almaty, 147 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:11 AM to 08:17 PM, with solar noon around 12:44 PM and total daylight of 15h 6m.
Mapped location
42.49°N, 78.39°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:45 AM / -5h
Good live-call window with Karakol right now.
New York
06:45 AM / -10h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:45 AM / -13h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:45 PM / -2h
Good live-call window with Karakol right now.
Singapore
06:45 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 Karakol.
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
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Karakol right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest mapped context: Almaty, 147 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
Karakol 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 Karakol.
Canonical route
/time/kyrgyzstan/karakol/
Catalog identity
karakol-KG · KG · Asia
Coordinate cell
42.49°N, 78.39°E · lat 42.490 · lon 78.392 · cell 4249:7839
Population record
84,351 residents · country rank 4
Zone snapshot
Asia/Bishkek · GMT+6 · UTC+06:00
January / July offsets
UTC+06:00 / UTC+06:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Almaty, Kazakhstan · 147 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 2,855 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Karakol
Zone peer roster
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan · Osh, Kyrgyzstan · Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Karakol: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Karakol is the karakol-KG record in Kyrgyzstan: country slug kyrgyzstan, city slug karakol, ISO KG, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Bishkek.
42.49°N, 78.39°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 42 and longitude band 78; exact decimal pair 42.49047, 78.39197.
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 Karakol 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, 147 km]; Aqsu [aqsu-CN, CN, Asia/Urumqi, 213 km]; Bishkek [bishkek-KG, KG, Asia/Bishkek, 314 km]; Jalal-Abad [jalal-abad-KG, KG, Asia/Bishkek, 480 km]; Osh [osh-KG, KG, Asia/Bishkek, 514 km]; Andijon [andijon-UZ, UZ, Asia/Tashkent, 537 km]; Namangan [namangan-UZ, UZ, Asia/Tashkent, 581 km]; Korla [korla-CN, CN, Asia/Urumqi, 645 km]
Karakol 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 2,855 km; Tokyo 5,226 km; Singapore 5,229 km; London 5,747 km; New York 10,356 km; Sydney 11,262 km; Los Angeles 11,337 km; São Paulo 14,582 km
Karakol has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Kyrgyzstan.
Karakol renders Jun 2, 2026 · 16:45 GMT+6; GMT+6 at UTC+06:00; January UTC+06:00; July UTC+06:00; next holiday not currently surfaced.
This evidence pack is what keeps smaller city pages from reading like timezone templates: concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Karakol.
Karakol is a context-and-reference city; rank #4 of 4 retained Kyrgyzstan city pages. The route is /time/kyrgyzstan/karakol/ and the city id is karakol-KG.
Karakol has 12 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.
Karakol is pinned at 42.49°N, 78.39°E; Almaty (147 km); Dubai (2,855 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.
Karakol 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.
Karakol 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.
Karakol: Karakol, formerly Przhevalsk, is the fourth-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, near the eastern tip of Issyk-Kul, about 150 kilometres (93 mi) from the Kyrgyzstan–China border and 380 kilometres (240 mi) from the capital Bishkek. It is the administrative capital of Issyk-Kul Region. Its area is 44 square kilometres (17 sq mi), and its resident population was 84,351 in 2021. To the north, on highway A363, is Tüp, and to the southwest Jeti-Ögüz resort.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+06:00) is constant year-round.
Karakol 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 78.39°, Karakol's mean solar noon falls about 46 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.
Karakol sits at 42.49°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 7 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 53 minutes on the December solstice.
Karakol sits at 42.49°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 7 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 53 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 18 (15h 18m)
Shortest day
Dec 21 (9h 3m)
Year-round average
12h 13m
Annual swing
6h 15m
See the full daylight curve for Karakol at /sun/karakol/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Karakol local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Karakol |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Reference fields include Karakol's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 04:45:07 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Karakol (UTC+06:00, KGT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:11 AM to 08:17 PM
Day length 15h 6m · Solar noon 12:44 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Karakol local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
84.4K
Coordinates
42.49, 78.39
Timezone
Asia/Bishkek
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Bishkek
Languages
Kyrgyz, Russian
Currency
KGS (с)
Country area
199,951 km²
Karakol, Kyrgyzstan (population rank #4 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Bishkek (KGT, UTC+06:00); population ~84.4K.
Coordinates: 42.49°N, 78.39°E. Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, ~4716 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:11 AM and sets around 08:17 PM in Karakol — about 15h 6m of daylight. Kyrgyzstan stays on standard time here, so UTC+06:00 is stable through the year.
Almaty (147 km from Karakol) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Kyrgyzstan.
Karakol 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/karakol/.
Location context: 42.49°N, 78.39°E; population 84,351; nearest indexed city Almaty is about 147 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 2,855 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.
Karakol 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 78.39°, Karakol's mean solar noon falls about 46 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.
Karakol sits at 42.49°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 7 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 53 minutes on the December solstice.
Related clock anchors for Karakol: Bishkek (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 Karakol.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Karakol: closest hubs Dubai (~2,855 km), Tokyo (~5,226 km), Singapore (~5,229 km); farthest indexed hub São Paulo (~14,582 km).
Karakol sits inside Kyrgyzstan — the Central Asia subregion, capital Bishkek, languages Kyrgyz, Russian, currency KGS (с).
Closest indexed cities to Karakol: Almaty (147 km), Aqsu (213 km), Bishkek (314 km), Jalal-Abad (480 km).
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Karakol, 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
2 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:45 AM | -5h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:45 AM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:45 AM | -13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:45 PM | -2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:45 PM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:45 PM | +3h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:45 PM | +4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:45 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
Karakol is in the Asia/Bishkek timezone (KGT), with a UTC offset of +06:00.
Karakol 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 Karakol is UTC+06:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Karakol, 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 · 16:45 GMT+6. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Karakol sits at 42.49°N, 78.39°E in Kyrgyzstan, with about 84.4K residents (rank #4 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Karakol is Dubai, about 2,855 km away as the crow flies.
Almaty is the closest indexed city, roughly 147 km from Karakol.
Karakol uses Kyrgyzstani som (KGS, symbol с) as the local currency of Kyrgyzstan.
The longest day of 2026 in Karakol falls on Jun 18 with about 15h 18m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 21 with 9h 3m; the year-round average is 12h 13m.
In Karakol 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.