Current time in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
The current local time in Ulaanbaatar is shown below. Ulaanbaatar observes ULAT.
What's the daylight saving status?
Ulaanbaatar 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/Ulaanbaatar
- Standard abbreviation
- ULAT
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇲🇳 Mongolia
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Ulaanbaatar?
Mongolia keeps UTC+8 across most of its territory, the same clock as Beijing to the south and as much of East Asia, though its sparse far-western provinces run an hour behind on UTC+7. The country experimented with daylight saving on and off for years, last using it in the mid-2010s before abandoning the seasonal change again, so the capital now holds a fixed offset. The northern latitude gives Ulaanbaatar long summer days and short, bitterly cold winter ones.
What are the working hours in Ulaanbaatar?
Mining dominates the modern economy, with the country's enormous reserves of coal, copper, and gold drawing investment and shaping its trade with China, alongside the herding that still supports much of the rural population. The working day in the capital runs broadly 09:00 to 18:00 on weekdays. The most important holiday by far is Tsagaan Sar, the lunar new year in late winter, when the city empties as families gather, followed in summer by the Naadam festival of wrestling, archery, and horse racing in July.
Where is Ulaanbaatar?
Ulaanbaatar lies in a valley of the Tuul River in north-central Mongolia, ringed by mountains at around 1,300 metres, which makes it one of the coldest capital cities in the world, with deep winter temperatures well below minus twenty. The metropolitan area holds around 1.6 million people, close to half the population of a vast, thinly peopled country of steppe and desert. Once a movable monastic settlement, it became the fixed capital of a nation wedged between Russia and China.