Hamhŭng, 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 ) Hamhŭng, North Korea |
Hamhŭng clocks, offsets and daylight saving
Local time here is KST, which sits 9 hours ahead of UTC, written UTC+09:00. The canonical zone name is Asia/Pyongyang, and that is what to pick from a time zone dropdown.
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 Hamhŭng.
Population: about 559,056 — 1st largest of the 15 North Korea cities indexed here.
How far ahead or behind is Hamhŭng?
Read this as: relative to each city below, Hamhŭng is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Hamhŭng is 13 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Hamhŭng is 16 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Hamhŭng is 8 hours ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Hamhŭng is 7 hours ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Hamhŭng is 5 hours ahead |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Hamhŭng is 3 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Hamhŭng is 1 hour ahead |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | same time as Hamhŭng |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Hamhŭng is 1 hour behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Hamhŭng is 12 hours ahead |
When Hamhŭng and other cities overlap
Assuming a 09:00–17:00 day at both ends, these windows (in Hamhŭng local time) fall inside working hours for both cities.
| Tokyo | 09:00–17:00 in Hamhŭng | 8 hours overlap |
| Shanghai | 10:00–17:00 in Hamhŭng | 7 hours overlap |
| Sydney | 09:00–16:00 in Hamhŭng | 7 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 12:30–17:00 in Hamhŭng | 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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