Current time in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
The current local time in Tashkent is shown below. Tashkent observes UZT.
What's the daylight saving status?
Tashkent 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/Tashkent
- Standard abbreviation
- UZT
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Tashkent?
Uzbekistan keeps a single UTC+5 offset across the whole country, fixed since it dropped the Soviet practice of seasonal clock changes after independence in 1991. Tashkent sits in the east of the country near 69 degrees east, somewhat ahead of the offset's reference longitude, so the sun reaches noon a little before the clock. The offset places the city five hours ahead of Greenwich year-round, the same time most of Central Asia and Pakistan now keep.
What are the working hours in Tashkent?
The working week runs Monday to Friday, a Soviet inheritance that sets Uzbekistan apart from the Gulf and South Asian patterns, with government and office hours typically 09:00 to 18:00 and a midday break. Navruz, the spring-equinox new year on 21 March, is the year's largest celebration, marked across the city with public festivities, and the Islamic Eid holidays are also observed. The cotton harvest in the autumn still shapes the rhythm of the surrounding region and draws seasonal labour from the city. Government and commercial business slows through the hottest weeks of the high-summer afternoons.
Where is Tashkent?
Tashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan and the largest city in Central Asia, with a metropolitan population of around 2.5 million, set in an oasis on the plains below the western foothills of the Tian Shan mountains. Rebuilt on a broad Soviet plan after a major earthquake in 1966, it is the regional hub for trade, transport, and administration across a doubly landlocked country at the heart of the old Silk Road network.