Time-zone spread
Pakistan is modeled as a single-zone country on this page, so the main planning risk is not internal time spread but coordination with DST-observing countries elsewhere.
Largest indexed cluster: Asia/Karachi · 4 cities.
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Country time hub
Pakistan has 1 time zone.
Last updated recently. Country-level time references, currency snapshots, nearby airports, and next-holiday context refresh on the daily page update window.
What time is it in Pakistan
It's currently 3:01 PM GMT+5 in Pakistan, which is UTC+05:00. Pakistan does not observe daylight saving time.
Primary timezone
Asia/Karachi
Indexed cities
4
Next holiday
No upcoming holiday found
See the holiday page for the full calendar.
Airport pages
6
Operational country read
This page is classified as a compact country time hub. It combines city coverage, time-zone spread, holiday signals, airport links, and reference-market overlap so users can decide whether to open a city page, a meeting planner, or a travel page next.
Time-zone spread
Pakistan is modeled as a single-zone country on this page, so the main planning risk is not internal time spread but coordination with DST-observing countries elsewhere.
Largest indexed cluster: Asia/Karachi · 4 cities.
Reference-market overlap
Pakistan overlaps 2 of 8 reference markets right now. Use those rows for live calls and treat the remaining markets as async handoffs.
Snapshot uses 8 reference market clocks against Asia/Karachi.
Planning next step
Pakistan has an airport-country page, so travel planning can move from national time context into arrival-city and airport-zone details.
Country evidence
Practical use cases
Trust boundaries
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Pakistani Rupee
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.
These blocks make the country hub useful for real planning in Pakistan, not just as a timezone index.
Pakistan pages should surface prayer-time and Islamic holiday context because those signals change how the local day is actually used.
Pakistan sits in a useful same-day position for the Gulf, parts of Europe, and South Asia.
Pakistan’s civil-time stability makes it a clean regional anchor for UTC+5 scheduling.
Pakistan, the world's 5th most populous country with about 245 million people and a GDP near USD 375 billion, runs on textiles, agriculture, and Chinese infrastructure capital via the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), and is a declared nuclear-weapon state. Civil time is Pakistan Standard Time (Asia/Karachi, UTC+5) with no DST and one nationwide timezone; brief daylight-saving experiments in 2002 and 2008-09 were abandoned, and PKT shares its UTC+5 offset with Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and western Kazakhstan, a wide South-Central Asian time corridor. The parliamentary federal republic, where the military retains substantial influence, is led by PM Shehbaz Sharif (PML-N/PPP coalition, elected 3 March 2024) and President Asif Ali Zardari (sworn in 11 March 2024), with Imran Khan's PTI in opposition after the disputed February 2024 vote. The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX, formed 2016) anchors capital markets; a USD 7 billion IMF Extended Fund Facility underpins recovery from 2022-24 inflation.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-23 (manual).
Capital
Islamabad
Population
241,499,431
Area
796,095 km²
Languages
English, Urdu
Currencies
PKR
Indexed cities
4
Indexed airports
6
Next public holiday
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Pakistan is one of the country intelligence hubs in WorldClockTools, so this page combines live timezone structure, major city clocks, holidays, airports, and same-day planning signals instead of stopping at a flat country index.
Pakistan currently spans 1 curated timezone. It sits in the Southern Asia subregion. The wider region is Asia.
Tue, Jun 2
Faisalabad
03:01 PM
Asia/Karachi
Tue, Jun 2
Karachi
03:01 PM
Asia/Karachi
Tue, Jun 2
Lahore
03:01 PM
Asia/Karachi
Tue, Jun 2
Peshawar
03:01 PM
Asia/Karachi
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
| Reference market | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:01 AM | -4h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:01 AM | -9h | Plan around office hours |
| Los Angeles | 03:01 AM | -12h | Plan around office hours |
| Dubai | 02:01 PM | -1h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:01 PM | +3h | Plan around office hours |
| Tokyo | 07:01 PM | +4h | Plan around office hours |
| Sydney | 08:01 PM | +5h | Plan around office hours |
| São Paulo | 07:01 AM | -8h | Plan around office hours |
Islamabad International AirportISB
Attock
Asia/Karachi
Jinnah International AirportKHI
Karachi
Asia/Karachi
Allama Iqbal International AirportLHE
Lahore
Asia/Karachi
Faisalabad International AirportLYP
Faisalabad
Asia/Karachi
Multan International AirportMUX
Multan
Asia/Karachi
Bacha Khan International AirportPEW
Peshawar
Asia/Karachi
Reference fields include Pakistan: ISO code, canonical slug, timezone roster, indexed cities, airport rows, next holiday, currency/language hints, reference-market overlap, and country-specific planning text.
Country time hubs work best when they connect to the deeper city, airport, compare, and market route families.