Current time in Yekaterinburg, Russia
The current local time in Yekaterinburg is shown below. Yekaterinburg observes YEKT.
What's the daylight saving status?
Yekaterinburg 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/Yekaterinburg
- Standard abbreviation
- YEKT
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Yekaterinburg?
Yekaterinburg keeps UTC+5, two hours ahead of Moscow, a fitting offset for a city sitting at the threshold of Asia. It is the western anchor of the great expanse of Russian territory east of the Urals, the first major step up from Moscow Time as the country's eleven zones climb toward the Pacific. Russia abolished daylight saving around 2011 and settled on fixed offsets, so the two-hour gap to the capital holds steady throughout the year.
What are the working hours in Yekaterinburg?
Heavy industry, metallurgy, and machine-building, the trades that grew up around the mineral wealth of the Urals, anchor the economy alongside a growing services and exhibition sector that trades on the city's position between the European and Asian halves of the country. The working day runs broadly 09:00 to 18:00 on weekdays. The two-hour lead on Moscow gives businesses here a usable overlap with both the capital and the cities further east. The main closures follow the Russian national and Orthodox calendar, with the May Day and Victory Day holidays in spring also widely observed.
Where is Yekaterinburg?
Yekaterinburg lies just east of the Ural Mountains, the low range that conventionally divides Europe from Asia, in the heart of Russia. The metropolitan area holds around 1.5 million people, making it one of the largest cities in the country and the principal city of the Urals. A monument outside the city marks the boundary between the two continents, and Yekaterinburg has long served as the industrial and trading hub where European Russia meets Siberia.