Current time in Moscow, Russia
Moscow Standard Time
UTC+03:00- Time zone
- Moscow Standard Time · Europe/Moscow
- UTC offset now
- UTC+03:00
- Abbreviation
- MSK
- Daylight saving
- Not observed: UTC+3 all year.
No clock changes are scheduled.
- Difference from you
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- Location
- Russia (capital) · 55.75° N, 37.62° E
- Population
- 10,381,222
Sun and clock
On average the sun stands highest over Moscow at about 12:30 standard time: the clock runs about 30 min ahead of the sun. Over the year, solar noon falls between 12:13 and 12:44 on the local clock.
| 2026 | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox (Mar 20) | 06:32 | 18:42 | 12h 11m |
| June solstice (Jun 21) | 03:44 | 21:18 | 17h 34m |
| September equinox (Sep 23) | 06:16 | 18:26 | 12h 10m |
| December solstice (Dec 21) | 08:57 | 15:57 | 7h 00m |
Sunrise–sunset today: 06:28–18:10 (11 h 42 min of daylight)
Times are local clock times for the city centre, computed with the NOAA solar equations; hills and refraction can shift them by a few minutes.
Nearby cities
- Nizhniy Novgorod · 400 km
- Voronezh · 470 km
- Saint Petersburg · 640 km
- Kharkiv, Ukraine · 650 km
- Minsk, Belarus · 680 km
- Ulyanovsk · 700 km · clock 1 h ahead