Current Time in Karachi

About time in Karachi

Karachi keeps Pakistan Standard Time, a whole-hour offset of UTC+5. Pakistan briefly experimented with daylight saving in the late 2000s but has since dropped it, so the clock now stays put all year. This places Karachi half an hour behind neighboring India, which runs on a half-hour offset at UTC+5:30. The steady UTC+5 setting keeps Karachi a convenient five hours ahead of London in the winter months.

Karachi does not make seasonal clock changes under its current rules. Its offset is UTC+5 (no DST). The live clock above reads Karachi's local time directly from the IANA time zone database in your browser, using the rules installed on your device. Keep your browser updated when regional rules change. To plan a call or convert a specific moment, use the timezone converter or meeting planner linked below.

Daylight in Karachi through 2026

Karachi sits at about 24.9°N, 67.0°E. The longest day of 2026 is June 17, with 13h 41m between sunrise and sunset. The shortest is December 21, with 10h 35m, a difference of 3 h 6 min. At this latitude the seasons change day length noticeably but not dramatically, so the working day has usable daylight all year.

The earliest sunrise of the year comes around May 31 (05:42) and the latest sunset around June 27 (19:25). These are not exactly on the solstice because the sun’s position runs slightly ahead of or behind clock time during the year.

Solar noon, when the sun is highest, falls at about 12:39 local time in late March, 12:33 in late June and 12:29 in late December. In standard time the sun is highest at about 12:32 on average, about 32 minutes after 12:00, a modest gap between clock and sun time in Karachi.

Local clock times, including daylight saving where it applies. Calculated with the standard sunrise equation for the city centre; terrain and tall buildings can delay the visible sunrise.

Clock changes in Karachi (2026–2027)

Karachi keeps the same offset all year. No clock changes are scheduled in 2026 or 2027 under the time-zone rules used for this page. Its gap to cities that do observe daylight saving still changes when they move their clocks: in January Karachi is 5 hours ahead of London and 10 hours ahead of New York.

Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled with this site’s build. Governments occasionally change rules at short notice; see our methodology.