Time Zone History

Yekaterinburg time zone history

Daylight saving time was used in 30 years since 1970, last in 2010; under the current rules the clocks no longer change. The latest change of standard time came on October 26, 2014, from UTC+6 to UTC+5. Clocks have been changed 63 times since 1970, the most of the 16 zones on UTC+5 standard time.

UTC+5

Standard time is UTC+5 all year under the current rules.

Covers: Urals · tz database name Asia/Yekaterinburg

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Summer time in 30 of 57 years since 1970

UTC+3:45:05, UTC+4, UTC+4:02:33: behind today’s standard timeUTC+5: today’s standard timeUTC+6: 1 hour ahead of today’s standard timeUTC+3:45:05, UTC+4, UTC+4:02:33:behind today’s standard timeUTC+5: today’s standard timeUTC+6: 1 hour ahead of today’sstandard time

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Before 1970

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JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1970198019902000201020202028JFMAMJJASOND1970198019902000201020202028

Standard time changes

DateChangeNew standard timeClock label
Before 1970
July 3, 1916Local mean time (UTC+4:02:33) replacedUTC+3:45:05PMT
July 15, 1919Standard time forward 15 minutesUTC+4numeric only
June 21, 1930Standard time forward 1 hourUTC+5numeric only
Since 1970
March 31, 1991Summer offset kept as standard time; clocks did not moveUTC+4numeric only
January 19, 1992Standard time forward 1 hourUTC+5numeric only
March 27, 2011Standard time forward 1 hourUTC+6numeric only
October 26, 2014Standard time back 1 hourUTC+5numeric only

Daylight saving periods

Since 1970: the periods shared by 14 of 26 zones, listed on the Russia page.

Also on UTC+5

Qostanay (Kazakhstan), Aqtobe (Kazakhstan), Oral (Kazakhstan), Atyrau (Kazakhstan), Qyzylorda (Kazakhstan), Aqtau (Kazakhstan), Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Samarkand (Uzbekistan) and Turkmenistan (nearest first; 5 more on the list of offsets).

Clocks next door since 1970

  • Qostanay (Kazakhstan) (449 km): same time except 4,646 days in 1981, 1982, 2004–2011 and 2014–2024.
  • Kirov (678 km): usually 2 hours behind; different on 7,391 days in 1970–2011 and 2014.
  • Aqtobe (Kazakhstan) (764 km): same time except 2,779 days in 1981, 1982 and 2005–2014.
  • Samara (779 km): usually 1 hour behind; different on 2,683 days in 1981–2014.
  • Ulyanovsk (815 km): usually 1 hour behind; different on 9,862 days in 1981–2016.

How it compares

Yekaterinburg left local mean time (UTC+4:02:33) in 1916, the third-earliest switch of the 14 zones on UTC+5 standard time with local mean time in the record.

On standard time, clocks in Yekaterinburg run 58 minutes ahead of local mean solar time.