Islamabad, Pakistan
Current time in Pakistan
Time zone: PKT (UTC/GMT +05:00) — Asia/Karachi
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -3 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +5 ) Islamabad, Pakistan |
Current Time in other Cities of Pakistan
What time zone is Islamabad in?
The local standard in Islamabad is PKT — UTC+05:00, or 5 hours ahead of UTC. Systems that store time zones by name use Asia/Karachi for this part of the world.
Islamabad does not change its clocks. The same UTC+05:00 offset holds in January and July, which makes it a stable anchor for recurring calls.
With a population near 601,600, Islamabad comes in 14th of the 68 Pakistan cities we list.
Time gaps from Islamabad right now
Live differences from Islamabad, calculated from each zone's rules as they stand today rather than a fixed table.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Islamabad is 9 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Islamabad is 12 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Islamabad is 4 hours ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Islamabad is 3 hours ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Islamabad is 1 hour ahead |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Islamabad is 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Islamabad is 3 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Islamabad is 4 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Islamabad is 5 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Islamabad is 8 hours ahead |
Working hours that match Islamabad
Overlap of a normal working day, shown in Islamabad time — outside these windows one side is off the clock.
| Mumbai | 09:00–16:30 in Islamabad | 7.5 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 10:00–17:00 in Islamabad | 7 hours overlap |
| Paris | 12:00–17:00 in Islamabad | 5 hours overlap |
| Shanghai | 09:00–14:00 in Islamabad | 5 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with New York, Los Angeles or Sao Paulo, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
Cities on the same clock as Islamabad
No difference at all from Islamabad: the cities below share the Asia/Karachi zone.
Faisalabad Faisalabad Rawalpindi Multan Hyderabad Gujranwala Peshawar Rahim Yar Khan
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