Peshawar in numbers
- Coordinates
- 34.0080, 71.5785
- Population
- 4 758 762
- Region
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Country
- Pakistan, Asia
- Capital
- Islamabad — 139 km away
What time is it in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, keeps Pakistan Standard Time, UTC+5, year-round. Pakistan does not currently use daylight saving, so the city’s clock, sun times, and weather share one offset.
Peshawar, Pakistan
Friday, 4 September 2026
UTC+5 · Asia/Karachi
Local time in Peshawar
UTC+5 · no daylight saving time
The sun today
Sunrise 05:50 Solar noon 12:14 Sunset 18:38 Daylight 12 h 48 min Night 11 h 12 min Civil twilight 05:25 – 19:04
Weather in Peshawar right now
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Peshawar and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 24470 Sheikhabad — 0.8 km away
- 23230 Jamal Garhi — 2.7 km away
- 25220 Landi Arbab — 4.1 km away
- 24370 Pakha Ghulam — 4.4 km away
- 24360 Musa Zai — 4.7 km away
- 25150 Tehkal Payan — 5.2 km away
- 18600 Samar Bagh — 5.3 km away
- 25170 Sakhi Chashma — 5.9 km away
- 25100 Hayatabad (Phase-I) — 5.9 km away
- 25110 Peshawar Education Board — 5.9 km away
- 25120 Peshawar University — 5.9 km away
- 25124 Hayatabad Phase-Ii — 5.9 km away
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Bannu 1 357 890
- Dera Ismail Khan 763 195
- Battagram 700 000
- Mingora 361 112
- Mardan 300 424
- Abbottabad 275 890
Same time zone — Asia/Karachi
- Lahore Pakistan
- Karachi Pakistan
- Faisalabad Pakistan
- Rawalpindi Pakistan
- Gujranwala Pakistan
- Multan Pakistan
Nearby places
- Sarai Malik Wazir — 2.2 km
- Peshawar District — 3.2 km
- Sarbiland Pura — 3.5 km
- Kambo — 4.0 km
- Shagai Hindkian — 4.6 km
- Isakhel Topchian — 5.4 km
What time is it in Peshawar
Peshawar uses the national Pakistani offset, five hours ahead of UTC. Islamabad, Lahore, and Karachi use the same civil hour. Asia/Karachi is the IANA name you want in software. There is no provincial clock for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and no extra “frontier time” at the Khyber.
The border, however, is a time border. Afghanistan uses UTC+4:30. Cross from Peshawar toward Torkham and the civil clocks jump by half an hour, not by a round hour. India, on Pakistan’s other side, uses UTC+5:30. Peshawar therefore sits thirty minutes ahead of Kabul and thirty minutes behind Delhi, while matching the rest of Pakistan exactly.
Because Pakistan’s offset is presently fixed, conversion with UTC is addition and subtraction. Add five hours to UTC to reach Peshawar. The half-hour traps are the neighbours, not the home zone. If a call is with Kabul or with a city on Indian Standard Time, write both offsets out; do not assume a round hour. The Khyber is a pass through mountains, not through Pakistan’s time zone.
Pakistan Standard Time at the edge of the map
Pakistan has used daylight saving in some past summers and does not currently. Plan on UTC+5 unless a future government change is actually in the zone database on your device. A rumour is not an offset. If you are writing a contract, name Asia/Karachi or name UTC.
Peshawar civil time: UTC+5, matching the rest of Pakistan. Kabul civil time: UTC+4:30, half an hour behind Peshawar. Indian Standard Time: UTC+5:30, half an hour ahead of Peshawar. Do not apply a European daylight-saving hour to Pakistani clocks.
Prayer times follow the sun. The civil clock does not chase Fajr or Maghrib when the season moves. A meeting at 6 p.m. is always 6 p.m. Pakistan Standard Time; whether that is still daylight is a question for today’s sunset in the Peshawar valley, not for a Karachi sun table and not for a Kabul clock.
Valley weather and solar hours
Peshawar sits in a broad valley with hills toward the west and north. Summers are hot; the monsoon can add cloud and dust-settling rain; winters are cooler, with shorter days. The latitude is high enough for a clear seasonal swing in day length, though not as extreme as in the far south of Chile or South Africa. First light and last light still matter for travel on the Grand Trunk Road and for work that starts before the heat.
Haze, dust, and winter fog can hide the disk after the calculated sunrise. The western hills can also delay direct sun for some neighbourhoods. Treat the published rise as the astronomical moment on Pakistan Standard Time, then look outside. The offset will not explain a brown morning. The air will.
Provincial notices use national civil time. You do not convert Khyber Pakhtunkhwa into a second Pakistani zone. You may need to convert a counterpart in Afghanistan by that stubborn extra thirty minutes. Getting the half-hour wrong is more common on this frontier than getting the date of a daylight-saving change, because there is currently no such change to miss.
Questions and answers
- Is Peshawar on the same clock as Karachi?
- Yes. Both use Pakistan Standard Time, UTC+5.
- How far off is Afghanistan?
- Afghanistan is UTC+4:30, so Kabul is thirty minutes behind Peshawar.
- Does Pakistan change clocks in summer?
- Not under current rules. Use UTC+5 unless your zone data shows a later change.