Magadan, Russia · UTC+11
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Magadan is eleven hours ahead of Moscow and eleven hours ahead of UTC, sitting on the Sea of Okhotsk in Russia’s Far East where the country nearly wraps around to meet Alaska. It is one of the world’s more dramatically isolated cities: built by Gulag labor, maintained by gold mining, and separated from the nearest major city by thousands of kilometers of taiga.
Russia spans eleven timezones. Magadan occupies one of the easternmost, sharing the Magadan Time zone (UTC+11) with a stretch of the Russian Far East. Russia abolished daylight saving time nationally in 2014, fixing Magadan permanently at UTC+11.
Gulag history and the gold fields of Kolyma
The Gulag history here is inescapable in any temporal discussion. During the Stalin era, Kolyma labor camps in the Magadan region held hundreds of thousands of prisoners, whose workdays were dictated not by civil time but by production quotas and guards’ schedules. The city that exists today grew directly from that infrastructure.
The gold fields of Kolyma are still active. Mining operations run shifts around the clock, and at UTC+11, coordination with European buyers means working across a ten-to-twelve hour gap.
9am in Magadan is 10pm the previous day in London. The temporal distance mirrors the geographic one.
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Questions about time in Magadan
- What timezone is Magadan in?
- Magadan uses the IANA timezone
Asia/Sakhalin. The UTC offset is always UTC+11 — this timezone does not observe daylight saving time. - Does Magadan observe daylight saving time?
- No. Magadan does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC+11 all year round.
- What is the current UTC offset for Magadan?
- Magadan is currently at UTC+11.
- What is the time difference between Magadan and New York?
- Magadan is currently 15 hours ahead of New York.
- What is the time difference between Magadan and London?
- Magadan is currently 10 hours ahead of London.
- What is the time difference between Magadan and Los Angeles?
- Magadan is currently 18 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the time difference between Magadan and Tokyo?
- Magadan is currently 2 hours ahead of Tokyo.
- What is the IANA timezone name for Magadan?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for Magadan is
Asia/Sakhalin. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Asia/Sakhalin' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Asia/Sakhalin')`), or any IANA-compatible library.