Chongjin, North Korea
Current time in North Korea
Time zone: KST (UTC/GMT +09:00) — Asia/Pyongyang
| Local Clock Offset: Today, 1 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +9 ) Chongjin, North Korea |
Chongjin clocks, offsets and daylight saving
Clocks in Chongjin are set to KST, 9 hours ahead of UTC (UTC+09:00). Software that asks for a region wants Asia/Pyongyang — the IANA identifier for this zone.
Daylight saving is not observed here, so UTC+09:00 is year-round. Any seasonal drift you notice against another city comes from that city, not from Chongjin.
Population: about 327,000 — 7th largest of the 15 North Korea cities indexed here.
Chongjin compared with major world cities
How Chongjin lines up against other major centres at this moment — the numbers move when either side changes its clocks.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Chongjin is 13 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Chongjin is 16 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Chongjin is 8 hours ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Chongjin is 7 hours ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Chongjin is 5 hours ahead |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Chongjin is 3 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Chongjin is 1 hour ahead |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | same time as Chongjin |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Chongjin is 1 hour behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Chongjin is 12 hours ahead |
Best time to call Chongjin
Where the two working days actually meet, expressed in Chongjin local time.
| Tokyo | 09:00–17:00 in Chongjin | 8 hours overlap |
| Shanghai | 10:00–17:00 in Chongjin | 7 hours overlap |
| Sydney | 09:00–16:00 in Chongjin | 7 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 12:30–17:00 in Chongjin | 4.5 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with New York, Los Angeles, London or Sao Paulo, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
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