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Samarqand Region, Uzbekistan

Samarqand Region uses Uzbekistan Time, UTC+5, in every season. Samarqand, Kattakurgan, Urgut, and the rest of the region share one official clock and do not observe daylight saving time.

Samarkand, Uzbekistan

11:17:54 PM

Monday, 2 November 2026

UTC+5 · Asia/Samarkand

Time and sun data for Samarkand — the largest city of Samarqand Region

The sun in Samarkand

Sunrise 7:02 AM Solar noon 12:17 PM Sunset 5:31 PM Daylight 10 h 29 min Night 13 h 31 min Civil twilight 6:34 AM – 5:59 PM

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Current time in Samarqand Region, Uzbekistan

Samarqand city is the administrative capital and the most widely supported reference in travel and clock services. A Tashkent setting gives the same time when Samarqand is unavailable, since both use the national UZT standard.

The conversion from UTC is to add five hours. This can carry the result into the next day, so an international booking should include its date and time zone. A bare time such as “nine o’clock” is ambiguous when participants are in different countries.

Samarqand has watched centuries pass; it has no need to move the clock twice a year. There is no seasonal shift in the region’s UTC offset. Calls with places that practise daylight saving may nevertheless move relative to local time. For repeating appointments, confirm the foreign participant’s offset whenever their seasonal rules take effect.

Regional cities on a common schedule

Samarqand is the largest and best-known urban centre in the region. Kattakurgan and Urgut are other significant cities or urban centres. All local government, commercial, transport, and domestic schedules use the same official time unless a timetable explicitly states a different reference.

Samarqand is the easiest city to use for a world clock. Kattakurgan follows the same UTC+5 time as the regional capital. Urgut shares the national clock but has its own coordinates for solar calculations.

Smaller settlements require no time-zone adjustment during regional travel. The name Samarqand is also commonly written Samarkand, while Kattakurgan may appear with variant punctuation or letters. Such differences arise from transliteration. They do not imply a separate clock, though selecting the correct map result remains important for weather and daylight data.

Checking sunrise around Samarqand

Sunrise moves with the date and varies slightly across the region. A value for Samarqand city is useful for the capital, but Kattakurgan and Urgut require their own calculations when accuracy matters. The shared time zone does not make their solar positions identical.

Most published sunrise values describe when the upper edge of the sun reaches an ideal horizon under standard assumptions. Local relief, buildings, cloud, and haze can affect the first visible sunlight. A traveller in a built-up street or behind rising ground may see the sun later than the listed moment.

Dawn begins before sunrise. Civil dawn is generally the relevant measure for the return of practical natural light, while other twilight stages suit astronomical or photographic work. Check the destination, date, weather, and horizon rather than treating a regional sunrise label as a universal observation.

Questions and answers

What is the time zone in Samarqand Region?: It is Uzbekistan Time, abbreviated UZT, at UTC+5.
Is Samarkand a different time setting from Samarqand?: No. They are alternative spellings of the same city and use the same regional time.
Do I need to change my watch when travelling to Urgut?: No. Urgut and Samarqand are on the same clock, although their sunrise times may differ slightly.