EZYCLOCK

Time in Seoul

The current local time in Seoul, South Korea — updating live, with the difference from your own clock.

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Seoul time explained

South Korea sits nine hours ahead of UTC with no daylight saving, sharing a clock with Japan. The country briefly moved to a half-hour offset in 2015 — a symbolic realignment — before reverting, and last used summer time for the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

Seoul does not observe daylight saving. Its offset from UTC is the same all year round, which makes scheduling with it noticeably simpler.

Reaching Seoul

Seoul keeps exactly the same clock as Tokyo, so the two cities schedule as one. Europe is a late-afternoon call at best, and the Americas fall outside the working day entirely.

How this page works

The time above is calculated on your own device from the IANA time zone database that ships with your browser, using the zone Asia/Seoul. Nothing is fetched from a server, and the offset shown is whatever is currently in force rather than a number typed into the page — so when a country changes its rules, this page changes with it.

The difference from your own clock is worked out the same way, comparing Seoul's current offset against your device's. If your computer's clock is wrong, so is that comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Does South Korea change its clocks?

No. Daylight saving was last used in 1987 and 1988, around the Seoul Olympics, and has not returned.

Is Seoul ahead of Tokyo?

No, they are identical. Both keep a nine-hour offset year-round.

Does Seoul change its clocks?

No. Seoul keeps one offset all year, so the difference to anywhere that does change its clocks will shift by an hour twice a year — from their end, not this one.