Current time in Astana, Kazakhstan
The current local time in Astana is shown below. Astana observes ALMT.
What's the daylight saving status?
Astana does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- Asia/Almaty
- Standard abbreviation
- ALMT
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Astana?
Kazakhstan unified its clocks in 2024, moving the entire country, including Astana, to a single UTC+5 offset and ending a long-standing split between an eastern and a western zone. The capital, formerly on UTC+6, had its clocks moved back an hour by the change. No daylight saving is observed. The new offset aligns Kazakhstan with its Central Asian neighbours Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, while putting it an hour behind the Chinese cities it had previously matched.
What are the working hours in Astana?
Government and the institutions of a young capital dominate the working economy, alongside the energy and mining wealth, oil, gas, uranium, and metals, that funds much of the country's development. The working day runs broadly 09:00 to 18:00 on weekdays. The harsh climate shapes the calendar as much as anything, with outdoor life concentrated into the brief warm season. Nauryz, the spring-equinox new year in March, is the largest celebration, alongside the national days and the Islamic Eid holidays. The capital also hosts frequent international conferences and state events that fill its calendar through the year.
Where is Astana?
Astana rises from the flat steppe of north-central Kazakhstan, on the Ishim river, a purpose-built capital of futuristic towers and monuments that replaced Almaty as the seat of government in 1997. The metropolitan area holds around 1.4 million people. Exposed on the open grassland with no mountains to shelter it, it is one of the coldest capital cities in the world, with long winters that drive much of its life into heated, interconnected interiors.