Current time in Vladivostok, Russia
The current local time in Vladivostok is shown below. Vladivostok observes VLAT.
What's the daylight saving status?
Vladivostok 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/Vladivostok
- Standard abbreviation
- VLAT
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Vladivostok?
Vladivostok keeps UTC+10, seven hours ahead of Moscow and at the far eastern end of a country that stretches across eleven time zones, more than any other. When the working day is beginning in the capital, it is already mid-afternoon here. Russia abolished daylight saving in the years around 2011 and now holds fixed offsets year-round, so the gap to Moscow stays constant. The city's eastern position places it well ahead of its East Asian neighbours' clocks too.
What are the working hours in Vladivostok?
The port, the naval base, shipping, fishing, and trade with the neighbouring economies of East Asia anchor the working economy, giving the city an outlook turned toward the Pacific rim rather than toward European Russia. The working day runs broadly 09:00 to 18:00 on weekdays. The vast distance and time gap to Moscow mean coordinating with the capital's ministries requires catching a narrow morning window before the European Russian day begins. The main closures follow the Russian national and Orthodox calendar.
Where is Vladivostok?
Vladivostok sits at the far south-eastern tip of Russia, on a hilly peninsula above the Golden Horn bay, looking out over the Sea of Japan. The metropolitan area holds around 600,000 people. The country's principal Pacific port and the home of its Pacific fleet, it lies closer to Tokyo, Seoul, and Beijing than to almost any major Russian city, and it stands at the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway, more than 9,000 kilometres of track from Moscow.