Current time in Incheon, South Korea
The current local time in Incheon is shown below. Incheon observes KST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Incheon 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/Seoul
- Standard abbreviation
- KST
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇰🇷 South Korea
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Incheon?
Incheon uses Korea Standard Time at UTC+9, the same single offset applied across the entire country. The KST meridian at 135 degrees east passes through the Sea of Japan east of the Korean peninsula, meaning that wall time across South Korea, including Incheon at 126.7 degrees east, runs slightly ahead of mean solar noon. Incheon's relatively western longitude makes the solar-civil time gap less pronounced than for Busan in the south-east. South Korea last operated daylight saving during the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
What are the working hours in Incheon?
Airport-related employment (around 80,000 jobs at Incheon International), the Incheon Free Economic Zone (Songdo International Business District is a major planned smart-city development), and substantial port and logistics activity anchor employment. Office hours run 09:00 to 18:00. The substantial cross-Yellow Sea trade with China shapes daily commercial activity, with much of South Korea's China-bound freight passing through Incheon. The Lunar New Year (Seollal) in late January or February and Chuseok in September close most businesses for three to five days. Incheon City Day on 15 October is a local public holiday.
Where is Incheon?
Incheon sits on South Korea's western coast on the Yellow Sea, around 30 kilometres west of Seoul. The city proper holds around 3 million residents and forms the western anchor of the Seoul Capital Area, the world's fifth-largest metropolitan region. Incheon International Airport, on the artificial island of Yeongjong, is one of the world's busiest airports and South Korea's principal international gateway. The 1950 Inchon landing by United Nations forces during the Korean War took place on the city's tidal mudflats. The port handles a substantial share of the country's container traffic.