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About Karachi
Home to roughly 14,916,456 residents, Karachi is a global metropolis in Pakistan. Its terrain rests around 8 m of elevation.
For computers and clocks, Karachi is anchored to the Asia/Karachi time zone, which encodes the city's daylight saving rules going back to the early 20th century. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the subtropical belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (24.86°).
Locally, prices are quoted in PKR and the international dialing code is +92. Beyond the live clock, every datapoint on this page — sun events, holidays, time-zone offsets — is also available as machine-readable JSON, ready for agents and integrations.
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Questions about time in Karachi
The current local time in Karachi, Pakistan is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Karachi uses the IANA time zone Asia/Karachi, currently UTC+5.
Whether Karachi observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Asia/Karachi) is the source of truth.
Karachi is currently 9 hours ahead of New York.
Karachi is currently 4 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Karachi are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (24.8607, 67.0011).
Pakistan uses the PKR currency and the +92 international dialing code.
Karachi sits at 24.8607° N, 67.0011° E, 8 m above sea level, in Pakistan.