Pyongyang, North Korea Β· UTC+9
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Pyongyang is in the Korea Standard Time timezone (KST/UTC+9), the same offset as Seoul since 2018, after a brief three-year experiment with a separate Pyongyang Time at UTC+8:30.
In August 2015, North Korea moved its clocks back by 30 minutes, creating Pyongyang Time at UTC+8:30. The government called it a rejection of βwicked Japanese imperialistsβ who had imposed Japan Standard Time on the Korean peninsula in 1912. The move was ideologically charged and practically inconvenient: the two Koreas, already separated by politics, now differed by 30 minutes in addition to everything else.
Then, in May 2018, three days before a historic inter-Korean summit, North Korea moved its clocks forward again, returning to UTC+9, the same as Seoul and the rest of Korea. It was a gesture toward possible reconciliation. The clocks were synchronized. The summit happened. The deeper divisions remained.
North Korea now uses the Asia/Pyongyang IANA identifier, currently set to UTC+9. The IANA database carries the full history of the Pyongyang Time experiment between the two changes.
the city few outsiders see
Pyongyang sits at 39 degrees north, with real seasons. Summer is warm and humid. Winter is cold and dry. The city is built for display: wide boulevards, grand monuments, the Juche Tower on the Taedong River bank. The pace of daily life in Pyongyang is visible to very few outsiders.
9am in Pyongyang is 12am in London.
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Questions about time in Pyongyang
- What timezone is Pyongyang in?
- Pyongyang uses the IANA timezone
Asia/Pyongyang. The UTC offset is always UTC+9 - this timezone does not observe daylight saving time. - Does Pyongyang observe daylight saving time?
- No. Pyongyang does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC+9 all year round.
- What is the current UTC offset for Pyongyang?
- Pyongyang is currently at UTC+9.
- What is the time difference between Pyongyang and New York?
- Pyongyang is currently 13 hours ahead of New York.
- What is the time difference between Pyongyang and London?
- Pyongyang is currently 8 hours ahead of London.
- What is the time difference between Pyongyang and Los Angeles?
- Pyongyang is currently 16 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the IANA timezone name for Pyongyang?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for Pyongyang is
Asia/Pyongyang. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Asia/Pyongyang' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Asia/Pyongyang')`), or any IANA-compatible library.