Current time in the Asia/Baku time zone

Asia/Baku is an IANA time zone used in Azerbaijan. It stays on UTC+4 all year.

Asia/Baku at a glance

Rules of the Asia/Baku time zone

No clock changes are scheduled in Asia/Baku. The last one for daylight saving time was in 2015; since then the offset has been UTC+4 all year.

Recent and upcoming changes in Asia/Baku

The base offset of this zone changed in 1992, from UTC+3 to UTC+4. Old timestamps should be converted with the rule that applied at the time.

Where Asia/Baku is used

Asia/Baku is used in Azerbaijan. These are the largest cities in our list that follow it.

• Baku

Asia/Baku compared with other time zones

Differences change during the year when one side moves to or from daylight saving time, so the table shows January and July separately.

Other zones on UTC+4 right now

These IANA zones show the same time as Asia/Baku today. Their clock-change rules may differ.

• Asia/Dubai
• Asia/Muscat
• Asia/Tbilisi
• Asia/Yerevan
• Europe/Astrakhan
• Europe/Samara
• Europe/Saratov
• Europe/Ulyanovsk
• Indian/Mahe
• Indian/Mauritius
• Indian/Reunion

Using Asia/Baku in software

Store and send the zone as its IANA name, Asia/Baku, not as a fixed offset. A fixed offset such as UTC+4 gives the wrong result after the next clock change.

Show the current time in Asia/Baku:

// JavaScript
new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-GB', { timeZone: 'Asia/Baku', timeStyle: 'long' }).format(new Date());
# Python
from datetime import datetime
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
datetime.now(ZoneInfo('Asia/Baku'))
// PHP
(new DateTime('now', new DateTimeZone('Asia/Baku')))->format('c');
# Shell
TZ=Asia/Baku date

Tools for time in Asia/Baku

• Convert a time to or from Asia/Baku: pick a date and time and see it in every city on your list.
• Add Baku to your world clock to keep it next to your own time.
• Find a meeting time that falls inside office hours in Asia/Baku and the other cities you work with.
• Open a full-screen clock for your own time zone.

Frequently asked questions

Time zone rules: IANA tz database, version 2026e. Place names and coordinates: GeoNames. Sunrise and sunset are calculated from the coordinates and can differ by a minute or two from local almanacs.