Asia/Oral time zone

Asia/Oral is an IANA time zone used in Kazakhstan. It stays on UTC+5 all year.

Asia/Oral at a glance

UTC offset now	UTC+5
Standard time	UTC+5
Used in	Kazakhstan

Rules of the Asia/Oral time zone

Asia/Oral has stayed on UTC+5 since its last daylight saving period in 2004. Software that still applies an old rule will show the wrong time, so keep tz data up to date.

Recent and upcoming changes in Asia/Oral

Date	Change	New offset
Sunday, March 30, 2003	Clocks go forward 1 hour: 2:00 AM becomes 3:00 AM	UTC+5
Sunday, October 26, 2003	Clocks go back 1 hour: 3:00 AM becomes 2:00 AM	UTC+4
Sunday, March 28, 2004	Clocks go forward 1 hour: 2:00 AM becomes 3:00 AM	UTC+5
Sunday, October 31, 2004	Daylight saving time ends for good: clocks stay at UTC+5	UTC+5

The base offset of this zone changed in 2004, from UTC+4 to UTC+5. Old timestamps should be converted with the rule that applied at the time.

Where Asia/Oral is used

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

Asia/Oral 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.

City	Time now	Difference now	In January	In July
New York (United States)	--:--	10 h behind	10 h behind	9 h behind
Los Angeles (United States)	--:--	13 h behind	13 h behind	12 h behind
London (United Kingdom)	--:--	5 h behind	5 h behind	4 h behind
Paris (France)	--:--	4 h behind	4 h behind	3 h behind
Dubai (United Arab Emirates)	--:--	1 h behind	1 h behind	1 h behind
Mumbai (India)	--:--	30 min ahead	30 min ahead	30 min ahead
Singapore	--:--	3 h ahead	3 h ahead	3 h ahead
Tokyo (Japan)	--:--	4 h ahead	4 h ahead	4 h ahead
Sydney (Australia)	--:--	6 h ahead	6 h ahead	5 h ahead
UTC	--:--	5 h behind	5 h behind	5 h behind

Other zones on UTC+5 right now

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

Using Asia/Oral in software

Use the zone name Asia/Oral rather than an abbreviation or a fixed offset. Abbreviations can mean several zones, and offsets ignore future clock changes.

Show the current time in Asia/Oral:

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

Plan around the time in Asia/Oral

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

Frequently asked questions

What is the UTC offset of Asia/Oral?

UTC+5, all year.

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.