Current time in Baku, Azerbaijan
The current local time in Baku is shown below. Baku observes AZT.
What's the daylight saving status?
Baku 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/Baku
- Standard abbreviation
- AZT
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Baku?
Azerbaijan operates on a UTC+4 offset year-round, having abolished daylight saving in 2016. The country's compact east-west span (around 500 kilometres) is comfortably managed by a single offset. The position places Azerbaijan in the same business window as Georgia to the west, Armenia (currently on the same offset), and the Russian Caucasus republics. The Caspian Sea border with Turkmenistan to the east produces a clock-time discontinuity, with Ashgabat at UTC+5 (an hour ahead) despite being relatively close in longitude.
What are the working hours in Baku?
Baku's working economy is dominated by the oil and gas industry, with the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan and the international consortia developing offshore Caspian fields as the largest employers. Office hours run 09:00 to 18:00 with a one-hour lunch break. The annual Formula 1 Grand Prix on the city's street circuit each spring is the largest international event, drawing significant tourism and disrupting central-city traffic for around a week. Religious public holidays follow the Islamic calendar; the secular Republic Day on 28 May commemorates the 1918 founding.
Where is Baku?
Baku stands on the western coast of the Caspian Sea on the Absheron Peninsula, the largest city in the South Caucasus region and the capital of Azerbaijan. The metropolitan area holds around 2.3 million residents, around a quarter of the country's total population. The peninsula extends roughly 60 kilometres east into the Caspian, with the city centre on the southern shore and petroleum-extraction infrastructure clustered around the surrounding coastline. The walled Old City of Icherisheher sits below modern districts that grew rapidly through the oil-driven 2000s and 2010s.