Time in Uzbekistan — regions, cities and time zones

Current time in Tashkent

Tashkent, the capital, sits in the north-east of the country and runs on UTC+5 like everywhere else in Uzbekistan. When it is noon in Tashkent it is 07:00 in London during British Summer Time and 08:00 there in winter — the gap moves because London changes its clocks, not because Tashkent does.

The country is double-landlocked and stretches roughly 1,400 kilometres west to east, which is wide enough that sunrise in Nukus and sunrise in Andijan are noticeably apart even though both clocks read the same. Uzbekistan chose administrative simplicity over solar accuracy, and the result is easy to work with.

One zone, twelve regions

Uzbekistan is divided into twelve regions plus the Republic of Karakalpakstan and the capital city. Every one of them uses UTC+5: Tashkent city and Tashkent Region Andijan, Fergana and Namangan in the fertile east

Samarkand, Bukhara, Navoiy and Jizzakh in the centre Kashkadarya and Surkhandarya in the south Syrdarya, Khorezm and the Republic of Karakalpakstan in the west A meeting scheduled for 10:00 works identically in Termez and in Nukus. This is unusual for a country of this width, and it makes scheduling across Uzbekistan simpler than across many smaller states.

Daylight saving: gone since the early 1990s

Uzbekistan inherited seasonal clock changes from the Soviet system and dropped them after independence. Since then the country has held a steady UTC+5 year round. There is no spring-forward morning, no lost hour, and no autumn confusion about which train timetable applies.

The practical effect is that any converter you build against Uzbekistan only needs one rule. Contrast that with a counterpart in Europe or North America, where the same appointment shifts twice a year relative to Tashkent.

A country with no daylight saving has one fewer way to be an hour late — and its citizens have to find that hour somewhere else.

How Uzbekistan lines up with its neighbours

Central Asia is not uniform. Uzbekistan shares UTC+5 with Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan's western and central areas, while Kyrgyzstan sits an hour ahead at UTC+6. Afghanistan to the south uses UTC+4:30, one of the few half-hour-plus offsets in the region, so a call from Tashkent to Kabul lands on a half hour rather than an hour.

Same hour as Tashkent: Ashgabat, Dushanbe, Astana. One hour ahead: Bishkek. Thirty minutes behind: Kabul. Two and a half hours behind: Tehran, when Iran is on standard time.

Working hours and the business day

The standard working week in Uzbekistan runs Monday to Friday, with Saturday and Sunday off in most offices and government bodies. Because the whole country is on one clock, the national business day opens and closes at the same moment everywhere.

If you are coordinating from Western Europe, the useful overlap is your morning: 09:00 in Berlin is early afternoon in Tashkent, which leaves a comfortable window before the Uzbek working day ends. From the US East Coast the overlap is thin — Tashkent's afternoon is New York's small hours — so most transatlantic work with Uzbekistan happens by written message rather than by call.

From East Asia the picture flips. Tashkent's morning is late afternoon in Tokyo and Seoul, which makes the first half of the Uzbek day the natural time to talk east rather than west.