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9–17 in Moscow vs UTC
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About Moscow
Home to roughly 12,506,468 residents, Moscow is a global metropolis in Russia. Its terrain rests around 156 m of elevation.
For computers and clocks, Moscow is anchored to the Europe/Moscow time zone, which encodes the city's daylight saving rules going back to the early 20th century. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the subarctic belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (55.76°).
Locally, prices are quoted in RUB and the international dialing code is +7. This page exposes Moscow's exact local time alongside sunrise, sunset, public holidays, and a structured-data feed at the JSON link below — useful for spreadsheets, scheduling tools, and AI assistants alike.
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Questions about time in Moscow
The current local time in Moscow, Russia is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Moscow uses the IANA time zone Europe/Moscow, currently UTC+3.
Whether Moscow observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Europe/Moscow) is the source of truth.
Moscow is currently 7 hours ahead of New York.
Moscow is currently 2 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Moscow are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (55.7558, 37.6173).
Russia uses the RUB currency and the +7 international dialing code.
Moscow sits at 55.7558° N, 37.6173° E, 156 m above sea level, in Russia.