Time in Kiev, Ukraine

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Current time in Ukraine

Time zone: EEST (UTC/GMT +03:00) — Europe/Kiev

Kiev time zone and UTC offset

The local standard in Kiev is EEST — UTC+03:00, or 3 hours ahead of UTC. Systems that store time zones by name use Europe/Kiev for this part of the world.

Daylight saving applies here. Clocks next move back 1 hour on Sunday, 25 October 2026, putting Kiev on EET and changing its gap to every other zone listed below.

Across Ukraine there are 3 distinct time zones among these 46 cities, so "local time" there depends entirely on which city you mean.

Kiev compared with major world cities

Current gap between Kiev and cities people most often need to coordinate with. These figures already account for daylight saving where it applies.

New York UTC-04:00 Kiev is 7 hours ahead
Los Angeles UTC-07:00 Kiev is 10 hours ahead
London UTC+01:00 Kiev is 2 hours ahead
Paris UTC+02:00 Kiev is 1 hour ahead
Dubai UTC+04:00 Kiev is 1 hour behind
Mumbai UTC+05:30 Kiev is 2 hours 30 minutes behind
Shanghai UTC+08:00 Kiev is 5 hours behind
Tokyo UTC+09:00 Kiev is 6 hours behind
Sydney UTC+10:00 Kiev is 7 hours behind
Sao Paulo UTC-03:00 Kiev is 6 hours ahead

Best time to call Kiev

Overlap of a normal working day, shown in Kiev time — outside these windows one side is off the clock.

Paris 10:00–17:00 in Kiev 7 hours overlap
Dubai 09:00–16:00 in Kiev 7 hours overlap
London 11:00–17:00 in Kiev 6 hours overlap
Mumbai 09:00–14:30 in Kiev 5.5 hours overlap

No shared working window exists with Los Angeles, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.

Cities on the same clock as Kiev

Same zone, same time — each of these sits on Europe/Kiev alongside Kiev, including through any clock change.

Dnipro Donetsk Kharkiv Lviv Odessa Zaporizhzhia