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Time in Georgia — regions, cities and time zones

Georgia uses a single time zone, UTC+04:00, across the whole country. It does not change clocks for summer, so the offset stays fixed year-round — which means the gap between Tbilisi and Europe widens and narrows depending on what Europe is doing.

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Capital Tbilisi · Asia · ISO GE / GEO

Tbilisi, Georgia

Friday, 4 September 2026

UTC+4 · Asia/Tbilisi

Time and sun data for Tbilisi, Georgia

The sun in Tbilisi

Sunrise 06:31 Solar noon 13:01 Sunset 19:32 Daylight 13 h 01 min Night 10 h 59 min Civil twilight 06:02 – 20:00

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Current time in Tbilisi

Tbilisi, on the Kura River in the east of the country, runs four hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. That is the national standard, so the reading in the capital is also the reading in Batumi on the Black Sea and in the mountain towns of the Greater Caucasus.

Georgia's geography would tempt a mapmaker into splitting it — the country spans a meaningful stretch of longitude between the Black Sea and the Azerbaijani border — but administratively it is one clock and always has been in recent practice.

Regions on the same clock

Every region reads the same hour, whatever the terrain between them: Tbilisi and the surrounding Kvemo Kartli lowlands Adjara and the Black Sea coast around Batumi Imereti and Kutaisi in the west Kakheti in the wine country to the east

Svaneti and the high Caucasus valleys in the north The practical effect of one zone across mountains is that "sunrise" and "9 a.m." can feel like very different things depending on which side of a ridge you are standing on. The clock does not care about ridges.

Why Georgia stopped changing its clocks

Georgia does not observe daylight saving time. The country settled on a fixed offset rather than a seasonal one, and it has stayed there. For anyone scheduling regularly with Tbilisi, this is the single most useful fact on the page: Georgia's side of the calculation never moves.

In a country that fixed its clock, every scheduling surprise has a return address — and it is not Tbilisi.

How the gap to Europe shifts

Because Georgia is fixed and much of Europe is not, the difference between Tbilisi and European capitals is not a constant number. It is two different numbers, depending on the season, and the change happens on the European end:

During the European winter, when those clocks are on standard time, the gap to Tbilisi is at its widest. When European clocks spring forward, they close an hour of that gap. In autumn they fall back and the gap opens again.

Questions and answers
What is Georgia's UTC offset?
UTC+04:00, used across the entire country all year.
Does Georgia use daylight saving time?
No. Clocks stay on the same offset through summer and winter.
Is the time in Batumi different from Tbilisi?
No. Batumi, Kutaisi, Telavi and Tbilisi all read the same hour — Georgia has one time zone.

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