Indexed entity
Samarkand is the samarkand-UZ record in Uzbekistan: country slug uzbekistan, city slug samarkand, ISO UZ, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Tashkent.
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Live local time
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
03:47:00 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Tashkent
Quick answer
It is currently 03:47:00 PM (UZT, UTC+05:00) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
22°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
26°C
14°C
33% rain
Wed
26°C
15°C
67% rain
Thu
27°C
13°C
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
UZS
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
05:05 AM
Sunset
07:54 PM
Day length
14h 48m
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 Samarkand, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:47 AM UTC.
Current local time
03:47:00 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
UZT
Asia/Tashkent · UTC+05:00
Next holiday
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Samarkand right now
Nearest airport
TAS
Tashkent International Airport · 265 km
Indexed airports
1
Curated airport references available for Uzbekistan
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 15:47 GMT+5
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Samarkand 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
11:47 AM / -4h
Dubai
02:47 PM / -1h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
TAS Tashkent, 265 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:05 AM to 07:54 PM, with solar noon around 12:30 PM and total daylight of 14h 49m.
Mapped location
39.65°N, 66.96°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:47 AM / -4h
Good live-call window with Samarkand right now.
New York
06:47 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:47 AM / -12h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:47 PM / -1h
Good live-call window with Samarkand right now.
Singapore
06:47 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 Samarkand.
TAS · Tashkent International Airport
Tashkent
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Asia/Tashkent 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 Samarkand right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest curated airport reference: TAS Tashkent, 265 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Asia/Tashkent. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Samarkand 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 Samarkand.
Canonical route
/time/uzbekistan/samarkand/
Catalog identity
samarkand-UZ · UZ · Asia
Coordinate cell
39.65°N, 66.96°E · lat 39.655 · lon 66.964 · cell 3965:6696
Population record
595,200 residents · country rank 4
Zone snapshot
Asia/Tashkent · GMT+5 · UTC+05:00
January / July offsets
UTC+05:00 / UTC+05:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Istaravshan, Tajikistan · 177 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 1,942 km
Closest airport references
TAS Tashkent 265 km
Zone peer roster
Tashkent, Uzbekistan · Andijon, Uzbekistan · Namangan, Uzbekistan
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Samarkand: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Samarkand is the samarkand-UZ record in Uzbekistan: country slug uzbekistan, city slug samarkand, ISO UZ, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Tashkent.
39.65°N, 66.96°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 39 and longitude band 66; exact decimal pair 39.65456, 66.96445.
Uzbekistan: official name Republic of Uzbekistan; capital Tashkent; region Asia; subregion Central Asia; country population 37,859,698; area 447,400 km²; languages Russian, Uzbek; currencies UZS Uzbekistani soʻm. This is the country layer behind the Samarkand clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Uzbekistan: Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia. It is surrounded by five countries: Kazakhstan to the north, Kyrgyzstan to the northeast, Tajikistan to the southeast, Afghanistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, making it one of only two doubly landlocked countries on Earth, the other being Liechtenstein. The country has a population of more than 38.2 million, making it the most populous country in Central Asia. Uzbekistan is a member of the Organization of Turkic States. Uzbek, spoken by the Uzbek people, is the official language and is spoken by the majority of its inhabitants, while Russian and Tajik are significant minority languages. Islam is the predominant religion, and most Uzbeks are Sunni Muslims. Source: Wikipedia.
Istaravshan [istaravshan-TJ, TJ, Asia/Dushanbe, 177 km]; Dushanbe [dushanbe-TJ, TJ, Asia/Dushanbe, 200 km]; Tashkent [tashkent-UZ, UZ, Asia/Tashkent, 261 km]; Kŭlob [kulob-TJ, TJ, Asia/Dushanbe, 312 km]; Isfara [isfara-TJ, TJ, Asia/Dushanbe, 317 km]; Mazār-e Sharīf [mazar-e-sharif-AF, AF, Asia/Kabul, 328 km]; Shymkent [shymkent-KZ, KZ, Asia/Almaty, 369 km]; Namangan [namangan-UZ, UZ, Asia/Tashkent, 426 km]
Samarkand is part of this indexed country cluster: Tashkent [tashkent-UZ, Asia/Tashkent, pop 1,978,028]; Andijon [andijon-UZ, Asia/Tashkent, pop 747,800]; Namangan [namangan-UZ, Asia/Tashkent, pop 713,220]; Samarkand [samarkand-UZ, Asia/Tashkent, pop 595,200].
Dubai 1,942 km; London 5,191 km; Singapore 5,658 km; Tokyo 6,234 km; New York 10,244 km; Los Angeles 11,802 km; Sydney 11,892 km; São Paulo 13,623 km
TAS Tashkent International Airport in Tashkent [UZ, 265 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include TAS Tashkent International Airport in Tashkent [UZ].
Samarkand renders Jun 2, 2026 · 15:47 GMT+5; GMT+5 at UTC+05:00; January UTC+05:00; July UTC+05:00; 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 Samarkand.
Samarkand is a context-and-reference city; rank #4 of 4 retained Uzbekistan city pages. The route is /time/uzbekistan/samarkand/ and the city id is samarkand-UZ.
Samarkand has 14 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.
Samarkand is pinned at 39.65°N, 66.96°E; Istaravshan (177 km); Dubai (1,942 km).
Asia/Tashkent resolves to stable UTC+05:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Uzbekistan.
TAS Tashkent International Airport (265 km) · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 1 country airport reference · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Samarkand 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.
Samarkand: Samarkand is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan and among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia. Samarkand is the capital of the Samarkand Region and a district-level city, that includes the urban-type settlements Kimyogarlar, Farhod and Khishrav. With 551,700 inhabitants (2021), it is the third-largest city in Uzbekistan.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+05:00) is constant year-round.
Samarkand 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 66.96°, Samarkand's mean solar noon falls about 32 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.
Samarkand sits at 39.65°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 14 hours 48 minutes on the June solstice and about 9 hours 12 minutes on the December solstice.
Samarkand sits at 39.65°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 14 hours 48 minutes on the June solstice and about 9 hours 12 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 (14h 59m)
Shortest day
Dec 17 (9h 22m)
Year-round average
12h 12m
Annual swing
5h 37m
See the full daylight curve for Samarkand at /sun/samarkand/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Samarkand local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Samarkand |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Reference fields include Samarkand's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 03:47:00 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Samarkand (UTC+05:00, UZT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:05 AM to 07:54 PM
Day length 14h 49m · Solar noon 12:30 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Samarkand local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
595.2K
Coordinates
39.65, 66.96
Timezone
Asia/Tashkent
Indexed airports
1
Capital
Tashkent
Languages
Russian, Uzbek
Currency
UZS (so'm)
Country area
447,400 km²
Samarkand, Uzbekistan (population rank #4 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Tashkent (UZT, UTC+05:00); population ~595.2K.
Coordinates: 39.65°N, 66.96°E. Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, ~4402 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:05 AM and sets around 07:54 PM in Samarkand — about 14h 49m of daylight. Uzbekistan stays on standard time here, so UTC+05:00 is stable through the year.
Istaravshan (177 km from Samarkand) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Uzbekistan.
Samarkand is indexed as a Asia city in the UZ country record, using Asia/Tashkent as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/uzbekistan/samarkand/.
Location context: 39.65°N, 66.96°E; population 595,200; nearest indexed city Istaravshan is about 177 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 1,942 km away.
Country planning context: capital Tashkent; subregion Central Asia; languages Russian, Uzbek; currency UZS (so'm); area 447,400 km²; 1 curated airport references; no upcoming holiday signal currently in view.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+05:00) is constant year-round.
Samarkand 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 66.96°, Samarkand's mean solar noon falls about 32 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.
Samarkand sits at 39.65°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 14 hours 48 minutes on the June solstice and about 9 hours 12 minutes on the December solstice.
Sizeable city with about 595 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Samarkand: Tashkent (same time), San Francisco (−12h), Los Angeles (−12h), New York City (−9h), Tokyo (+4h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
uzbekistan
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
UZT
IANA Zone
Asia/Tashkent
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 Samarkand.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Samarkand: closest hubs Dubai (~1,942 km), London (~5,191 km), Singapore (~5,658 km); farthest indexed hub São Paulo (~13,623 km).
Samarkand sits inside Uzbekistan — the Central Asia subregion, capital Tashkent, languages Russian, Uzbek, currency UZS (so'm).
Closest indexed cities to Samarkand: Istaravshan (177 km), Dushanbe (200 km), Tashkent (261 km), Kŭlob (312 km).
Closest curated airport references from Samarkand: TAS Tashkent (265 km).
Tashkent International AirportTAS
Tashkent · 265 km from Samarkand
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 5m
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 | 11:47 AM | -4h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:47 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:47 AM | -12h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:47 PM | -1h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:47 PM | +3h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:47 PM | +4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:47 PM | +5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:47 AM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
Istaravshan
Tajikistan
Approx. 177 km away
Dushanbe
Tajikistan
Approx. 200 km away
Tashkent
Uzbekistan
Approx. 261 km away
Kŭlob
Tajikistan
Approx. 312 km away
Isfara
Tajikistan
Approx. 317 km away
Mazār-e Sharīf
Afghanistan
Approx. 328 km away
Shymkent
Kazakhstan
Approx. 369 km away
Namangan
Uzbekistan
Approx. 426 km away
Samarkand is in the Asia/Tashkent timezone (UZT), with a UTC offset of +05:00.
Samarkand 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 Samarkand is UTC+05:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Samarkand, 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 · 15:47 GMT+5. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Samarkand sits at 39.65°N, 66.96°E in Uzbekistan, with about 595.2K residents (rank #4 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Samarkand is Dubai, about 1,942 km away as the crow flies.
Istaravshan is the closest indexed city, roughly 177 km from Samarkand.
Tashkent International Airport (TAS) is the closest curated airport reference, about 265 km from Samarkand.
Samarkand uses Uzbekistani soʻm (UZS, symbol so'm) as the local currency of Uzbekistan.
The longest day of 2026 in Samarkand falls on Jun 19 with about 14h 59m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 17 with 9h 22m; the year-round average is 12h 12m.
In Samarkand 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.