Indexed entity
Samara is the samara-RU record in Russia: country slug russia, city slug samara, ISO RU, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Samara.
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Live local time
Samara, Russia
02:42:08 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Europe/Samara
Quick answer
It is currently 02:42:08 PM (SAMT, UTC+04:00) in Samara, Russia — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
22°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
23°C
14°C
53% rain
Wed
15°C
11°C
78% rain
Thu
19°C
10°C
60% rain
In 10 days
День России (Russia Day)
Fri, Jun 12, 2026
PublicIn 155 days
День народного единства (Unity Day)
Wed, Nov 4, 2026
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Fri, Jan 1, 2027
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Russian Ruble
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Today
Sunrise
04:17 AM
Sunset
08:57 PM
Day length
16h 39m
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 Samara, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:42 AM UTC.
Current local time
02:42:08 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
SAMT
Europe/Samara · UTC+04:00
Next holiday
Russia Day
Friday, June 12, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Samara right now
Nearest airport
KUF
Kurumoch International Airport · 33 km
Indexed airports
14
Curated airport references available for Russia
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Samara, Russia.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 14:42 GMT+4
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Samara is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+04:00
Zone label
GMT+4
London
11:42 AM / -3h
Dubai
02:42 PM / +0h
Schedule risk
Russia Day on Friday, June 12, 2026
Travel cue
KUF Samara, 33 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 04:17 AM to 08:57 PM, with solar noon around 12:37 PM and total daylight of 16h 40m.
Mapped location
53.21°N, 50.14°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:42 AM / -3h
Good live-call window with Samara right now.
New York
06:42 AM / -8h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:42 AM / -11h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:42 PM / +0h
Good live-call window with Samara right now.
Singapore
06:42 PM / +4h
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 Samara.
KUF · Kurumoch International Airport
Samara
KZN · Kazan International Airport
Kazan
UFA · Ufa International Airport
Ufa
GOJ · Nizhny Novgorod / Strigino International Airport
Nizhny Novgorod
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Europe/Samara for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+04:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+04:00.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Samara right now.
Check local interruptions
Russia Day on Friday, June 12, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: KUF Samara, 33 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Europe/Samara. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Samara has no near-term DST change in view, but Russia 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 Samara.
Canonical route
/time/russia/samara/
Catalog identity
samara-RU · RU · Europe
Coordinate cell
53.21°N, 50.14°E · lat 53.208 · lon 50.136 · cell 5321:5014
Population record
1,163,399 residents · country rank 9
Zone snapshot
Europe/Samara · GMT+4 · UTC+04:00
January / July offsets
UTC+04:00 / UTC+04:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Tolyatti, Russia · 63 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 3,143 km
Closest airport references
KUF Samara 33 km · KZN Kazan 272 km · UFA Ufa 405 km · GOJ Nizhny Novgorod 528 km
Zone peer roster
Saratov, Russia · Tolyatti, Russia · Izhevsk, Russia
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Samara: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Samara is the samara-RU record in Russia: country slug russia, city slug samara, ISO RU, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Samara.
53.21°N, 50.14°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 53 and longitude band 50; exact decimal pair 53.20767, 50.13553.
Russia: official name Russian Federation; capital Moscow; region Europe; subregion Eastern Europe; country population 146,028,325; area 17,098,246 km²; languages Russian; currencies RUB Russian ruble. This is the country layer behind the Samara clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Russia: Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world, spanning eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. With a population of over 140 million, Russia is the most populous country in Europe and the ninth-most populous in the world. It is a highly urbanised country, with sixteen of its urban areas having more than 1 million inhabitants. Moscow, the most populous metropolitan area in Europe, is the capital and largest city of Russia, while Saint Petersburg is its second-largest city and a major cultural centre. Source: Wikipedia.
Tolyatti [tolyatti-RU, RU, Europe/Samara, 63 km]; Kazan [kazan-RU, RU, Europe/Moscow, 294 km]; Saratov [saratov-RU, RU, Europe/Samara, 337 km]; Ufa [ufa-RU, RU, Asia/Yekaterinburg, 418 km]; Blagoveshchensk [blagoveshchensk-RU, RU, Asia/Chita, 431 km]; Izhevsk [izhevsk-RU, RU, Europe/Samara, 450 km]; Sovetsk [sovetsk-RU, RU, Europe/Kaliningrad, 493 km]; Nizhniy Novgorod [nizhniy-novgorod-RU, RU, Europe/Moscow, 524 km]
Samara is part of this indexed country cluster: Moscow [moscow-RU, Europe/Moscow, pop 10,381,222]; Saint Petersburg [saint-petersburg-RU, Europe/Moscow, pop 5,351,935]; Novosibirsk [novosibirsk-RU, Asia/Novosibirsk, pop 1,612,833]; Yekaterinburg [yekaterinburg-RU, Asia/Yekaterinburg, pop 1,495,066]; Nizhniy Novgorod [nizhniy-novgorod-RU, Europe/Moscow, pop 1,259,013]; Kazan [kazan-RU, Europe/Moscow, pop 1,243,500]; Chelyabinsk [chelyabinsk-RU, Asia/Yekaterinburg, pop 1,202,371]; Omsk [omsk-RU, Asia/Omsk, pop 1,172,070]; Samara [samara-RU, Europe/Samara, pop 1,163,399]; Ufa [ufa-RU, Asia/Yekaterinburg, pop 1,120,547].
Dubai 3,143 km; London 3,348 km; Tokyo 6,882 km; Singapore 7,569 km; New York 8,282 km; Los Angeles 10,247 km; São Paulo 12,523 km; Sydney 13,655 km
KUF Kurumoch International Airport in Samara [RU, 33 km]; KZN Kazan International Airport in Kazan [RU, 272 km]; UFA Ufa International Airport in Ufa [RU, 405 km]; GOJ Nizhny Novgorod / Strigino International Airport in Nizhny Novgorod [RU, 528 km]; CEK Kurchatov Chelyabinsk International Airport in Chelyabinsk [RU, 773 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include CEK Kurchatov Chelyabinsk International Airport in Chelyabinsk [RU]; DME Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow [RU]; GOJ Nizhny Novgorod / Strigino International Airport in Nizhny Novgorod [RU]; KUF Kurumoch International Airport in Samara [RU]; KZN Kazan International Airport in Kazan [RU]; LED Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg [RU]; OMS Omsk Central Airport in Omsk [RU]; OVB Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport in Novosibirsk [RU]; ROV Platov International Airport in Rostov-on-Don [RU]; SVO Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow [RU].
Samara renders Jun 2, 2026 · 14:42 GMT+4; GMT+4 at UTC+04:00; January UTC+04:00; July UTC+04:00; next holiday Russia Day on 2026-06-12.
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 Samara.
Samara is a manual-dossier city; rank #9 of 44 retained Russia city pages. The route is /time/russia/samara/ and the city id is samara-RU.
Samara 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.
Samara is pinned at 53.21°N, 50.14°E; Tolyatti (63 km); Dubai (3,143 km).
Europe/Samara resolves to stable UTC+04:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Russia.
KUF Kurumoch International Airport (33 km) · Russia Day (Friday, June 12, 2026) · 14 country airport references · 13 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Samara 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.
Samara: Samara, formerly known as Kuybyshev (1935–1991), is the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast in Russia. The city is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Samara rivers, with a population of over 1.14 million residents, up to 1.22 million residents in the urban agglomeration, not including Novokuybyshevsk, which is not conurbated. The city covers an area of 541.4 square kilometers (209.0 sq mi), and is the ninth-largest city in Russia and tenth agglomeration, the third-most populous city on the Volga, as well as the Volga Federal District.
Russia abolished daylight saving time in 2014. The local UTC offset (+04:00) is constant year-round.
Samara is listed in the dataset snapshot as 4 hours ahead of UTC (offset +04:00). 3 hours ahead of London, 5 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 50.14°, Samara's mean solar noon falls about 39 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.
Samara sits at 53.21°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 16 hours 43 minutes on the June solstice and about 7 hours 17 minutes on the December solstice.
Samara sits at 53.21°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 16 hours 43 minutes on the June solstice and about 7 hours 17 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 17 (16h 58m)
Shortest day
Dec 20 (7h 31m)
Year-round average
12h 17m
Annual swing
9h 27m
See the full daylight curve for Samara at /sun/samara/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Samara local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Samara |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 17:00 - 01:00 (next day) |
| London | Europe/London | 12:00 - 20:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 11:00 - 19:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 07:30 - 15:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 05:00 - 13:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 05:00 - 13:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 04:00 - 12:00 |
IANA time zones in country
11
Public holidays in 2026
13
Samara is a major city in southwestern Russia and the administrative centre of Samara Oblast, with a population of roughly 1.16 million, ranking among the ten largest cities in the country. The city observes Samara Time (SAMT, UTC+4) year-round with no daylight saving, an offset one hour ahead of Moscow. Set at the confluence of the Volga and Samara rivers, the city was a closed centre of the Soviet aerospace and defence industries during the 20th century and served as the Soviet Union's reserve capital during the Second World War. It remains a hub of rocket and aircraft manufacturing and a key port on the Volga.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Samara's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 02:42:08 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Samara (UTC+04:00, SAMT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
04:17 AM to 08:57 PM
Day length 16h 40m · Solar noon 12:37 PM
Next country holiday
Russia Day
Friday, June 12, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Samara local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Xbox Games Showcase 2026
keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
Code with Claude Tokyo 2026
keynoteWednesday, June 10, 2026
8 days to go
ICML 2026
keynoteMonday, July 6, 2026
34 days to go
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
keynoteSunday, December 6, 2026
187 days to go
Population
1.2M
Coordinates
53.21, 50.14
Timezone
Europe/Samara
Indexed airports
14
Capital
Moscow
Languages
Russian
Currency
RUB (₽)
Country area
17,098,246 km²
Samara, Russia (population rank #9 in this dataset). Time zone: Europe/Samara (SAMT, UTC+04:00); population ~1.2M.
Coordinates: 53.21°N, 50.14°E. Northern Hemisphere high mid-latitudes, ~5906 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 04:17 AM and sets around 08:57 PM in Samara — about 16h 40m of daylight. Russia stays on standard time here, so UTC+04:00 is stable through the year.
Tolyatti (63 km from Samara) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 14 curated airport pages indexed for Russia.
Next national holiday: Russia Day, 2026-06-12.
Samara is indexed as a Europe city in the RU country record, using Europe/Samara as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/russia/samara/.
Location context: 53.21°N, 50.14°E; population 1,163,399; nearest indexed city Tolyatti is about 63 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 3,143 km away.
Country planning context: capital Moscow; subregion Eastern Europe; languages Russian; currency RUB (₽); area 17,098,246 km²; 14 curated airport references; next holiday Russia Day on 2026-06-12.
Russia abolished daylight saving time in 2014. The local UTC offset (+04:00) is constant year-round.
Samara is listed in the dataset snapshot as 4 hours ahead of UTC (offset +04:00). 3 hours ahead of London, 5 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 50.14°, Samara's mean solar noon falls about 39 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.
Samara sits at 53.21°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 16 hours 43 minutes on the June solstice and about 7 hours 17 minutes on the December solstice.
Major metropolitan area with around 1.2 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Samara: Moscow (−1h), San Francisco (−11h), Los Angeles (−11h), Berlin (−2h), London (−3h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
russia
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
SAMT
IANA Zone
Europe/Samara
UTC Offset
UTC+04:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
London
-3h
New York
-8h
Los Angeles
-11h
Dubai
+0h
Singapore
+4h
Tokyo
+5h
Sydney
+6h
São Paulo
-7h
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 Samara.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Samara: closest hubs Dubai (~3,143 km), London (~3,348 km), Tokyo (~6,882 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~13,655 km).
Samara sits inside Russia — the Eastern Europe subregion, capital Moscow, languages Russian, currency RUB (₽).
Closest indexed cities to Samara: Tolyatti (63 km), Kazan (294 km), Saratov (337 km), Ufa (418 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Samara: Russia Day, Unity Day, New Year's Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Russia.
Closest curated airport references from Samara: KUF Samara (33 km), KZN Kazan (272 km), UFA Ufa (405 km).
Russia also benefits from a stronger calendar context because Orthodox observances and civic holidays shape real availability.
Kurumoch International AirportKUF
Samara · 33 km from Samara
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 48m
Kazan International AirportKZN
Kazan · 272 km from Samara
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 6m
Ufa International AirportUFA
Ufa · 405 km from Samara
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 16m
Nizhny Novgorod / Strigino International AirportGOJ
Nizhny Novgorod · 528 km from Samara
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 26m
Kurchatov Chelyabinsk International AirportCEK
Chelyabinsk · 773 km from Samara
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 44m
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 | 11:42 AM | -3h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:42 AM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:42 AM | -11h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:42 PM | +0h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:42 PM | +4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:42 PM | +5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:42 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:42 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
Samara is in the Europe/Samara timezone (SAMT), with a UTC offset of +04:00.
Samara does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+04:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Samara is UTC+04:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Samara, 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 · 14:42 GMT+4. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Samara sits at 53.21°N, 50.14°E in Russia, with about 1.2M residents (rank #9 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Samara is Dubai, about 3,143 km away as the crow flies.
Tolyatti is the closest indexed city, roughly 63 km from Samara.
Kurumoch International Airport (KUF) is the closest curated airport reference, about 33 km from Samara.
Russia Day is the next upcoming holiday in Russia, on Friday, June 12, 2026.
Samara uses Russian ruble (RUB, symbol ₽) as the local currency of Russia.
The longest day of 2026 in Samara falls on Jun 17 with about 16h 58m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 20 with 7h 31m; the year-round average is 12h 17m.
Russia spans 11 IANA time zones in total; Samara's canonical zone for this page is Europe/Samara.
In Samara local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 17:00-01:00 (next day); London 12:00-20:00; Frankfurt 11:00-19:00; Dubai 09:00-17:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.