Gwangju, South Korea
Current time in South Korea
Time zone: KST (UTC/GMT +09:00) — Asia/Seoul
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, 9 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +09:00) Asia/Seoul |
Current Time in other Cities of South Korea
What time zone is Gwangju in?
Local time here is KST, which sits 9 hours ahead of UTC, written UTC+09:00. The canonical zone name is Asia/Seoul, and that is what to pick from a time zone dropdown.
Clocks in Gwangju stay put. With no summer-time switch, the UTC+09:00 offset is fixed and the differences shown below only shift when the other end changes.
Time gaps from Gwangju right now
Read this as: relative to each city below, Gwangju is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Gwangju is 13 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Gwangju is 16 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Gwangju is 8 hours ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Gwangju is 7 hours ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Gwangju is 5 hours ahead |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Gwangju is 3 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Gwangju is 1 hour ahead |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | same time as Gwangju |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Gwangju is 1 hour behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Gwangju is 12 hours ahead |
Best time to call Gwangju
Overlap of a normal working day, shown in Gwangju time — outside these windows one side is off the clock.
| Tokyo | 09:00–17:00 in Gwangju | 8 hours overlap |
| Shanghai | 10:00–17:00 in Gwangju | 7 hours overlap |
| Sydney | 09:00–16:00 in Gwangju | 7 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 12:30–17:00 in Gwangju | 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.
Sharing Gwangju's time zone
These South Korea cities also use Asia/Seoul, so their clocks read identically to Gwangju at every moment of the year.
Goyang-si Seongnam-si Changwon Bucheon-si Cheongju-si Ansan-si Cheonan Jeonju
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