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Daylight saving in South Korea

South Korea does not use daylight saving time. Clocks stay on UTC+9:00 the whole year, so the only thing that ever shifts your time difference with South Korea is your own side changing its clocks.

2026, day by day One cell per day, and one colour: South Korea sits on UTC+9:00 from January to December.

The next changes

They do not. South Korea has no daylight saving; the clock is UTC+9:00 year round.

Transitions are computed directly from the IANA time-zone database at build time, not from a hand-kept table — if the rules change, these dates change with the next daily build.

FAQ

When do the clocks change in South Korea?

They do not. South Korea has no daylight saving; the clock is UTC+9:00 year round.

Why does the time difference to other countries wobble?

Countries change their clocks on different dates — Europe and North America are a week or more apart — so for a few weeks each spring and autumn the usual difference is temporarily an hour off. Every overlap and difference figure on this site reads the current offsets from the IANA time-zone database, so those weeks are handled automatically.