Karachi, Pakistan
Current time in Pakistan
Time zone: PKT (UTC/GMT +05:00) — Asia/Karachi
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, 5 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +05:00) Asia/Karachi |
Current Time in other Cities of Pakistan
Karachi time zone and UTC offset
Clocks in Karachi are set to PKT, 5 hours ahead of UTC (UTC+05:00). Software that asks for a region wants Asia/Karachi — the IANA identifier for this zone.
No seasonal adjustment applies in Karachi — UTC+05:00 is constant, which is worth remembering when a partner city moves its clocks twice a year.
Time difference between Karachi and other cities
Current gap between Karachi and cities people most often need to coordinate with. These figures already account for daylight saving where it applies.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Karachi is 9 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Karachi is 12 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Karachi is 4 hours ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Karachi is 3 hours ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Karachi is 1 hour ahead |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Karachi is 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Karachi is 3 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Karachi is 4 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Karachi is 5 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Karachi is 8 hours ahead |
Best time to call Karachi
Where the two working days actually meet, expressed in Karachi local time.
| Mumbai | 09:00–16:30 in Karachi | 7.5 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 10:00–17:00 in Karachi | 7 hours overlap |
| Paris | 12:00–17:00 in Karachi | 5 hours overlap |
| Shanghai | 09:00–14:00 in Karachi | 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 Karachi
No difference at all from Karachi: the cities below share the Asia/Karachi zone.
Faisalabad Faisalabad Rawalpindi Multan Hyderabad Gujranwala Peshawar Rahim Yar Khan
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