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About Seoul
Home to roughly 9,776,000 residents, Seoul is a populous capital of commerce in South Korea. Its terrain rests around 38 m of elevation.
Seoul keeps time on the Asia/Seoul IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. Sun behaviour here follows the temperate pattern of the northern hemisphere, with the steepest seasonal day-length swings around the equinoxes.
Locally, prices are quoted in KRW and the international dialing code is +82. 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 Seoul
The current local time in Seoul, South Korea is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Seoul uses the IANA time zone Asia/Seoul, currently UTC+9.
Whether Seoul observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Asia/Seoul) is the source of truth.
Seoul is currently 14 hours ahead of New York.
Seoul is currently 9 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Seoul are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (37.5665, 126.9780).
South Korea uses the KRW currency and the +82 international dialing code.
Seoul sits at 37.5665° N, 126.9780° E, 38 m above sea level, in South Korea.