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London's clocks go back 1 hour on Sun, Oct 25 · BST → GMT

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9:00 pm21:00 KST (UTC+9), Oct 18, 2026 = 1:00 pm13:00 BST (UTC+1), Oct 18, 2026

KST is 8 hours ahead of London.

How the time difference changes

For most of the year, KST is 8 hours ahead of London. From Oct 25, 2026 to Mar 28, 2027, KST is 9 hours ahead of London.

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in KST correspond to 1:00 am to 10:00 am in London. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in KST correspond to 12:00 am to 9:00 am in London.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in KST correspond to 01:00 to 10:00 in London. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in KST correspond to 00:00 to 09:00 in London.

Compare KST time with London time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.

Time Difference

Korea Standard Time is 8 hours ahead of BST (British Summer Time).
9:00 pm21:00 in KST is 1:00 pm13:00 in London, United Kingdom

KST to London call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 5pm-6pm17:00-18:00 in KST which corresponds to 9am-10am09:00-10:00 in London

9:00 pm21:00 Korea Standard Time (KST). Offset UTC +9:00 hours
1:00 pm13:00 BST (British Summer Time) (London, United Kingdom). Offset UTC +1:00 hour

9:00 pm21:00 KST / 1:00 pm13:00 London, United Kingdom

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Korea Standard Time

Offset: KST is 9 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: North Korea, South Korea

Principal Cities: The largest city in the KST time zone is Seoul in South Korea, with about 10.349 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Busan, Pyongyang, Incheon, Daegu.

Daylight Saving: Clocks in Korea Standard Time (KST) do not change for daylight saving time, so KST stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.

KST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +09 - basic short
  • +0900 - basic
  • +09:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0900 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (09) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of nine hours to the east of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • India - Military abbreviation for KST
  • I - short form of 'India'
IANA/Olson: Reflects KST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • Asia/Pyongyang
  • Asia/Seoul
  • ROK
KST Abbreviation: Several time zones share KST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
  • Korea Standard Time - UTC +9
  • Pyongyang Time - UTC +8:30
Time zones with the GMT +9 offset:
  • AWDT - Australian Western Daylight Time
  • CHOST - Choibalsan Summer Time
  • I - India Time Zone
  • IRKST - Irkutsk Summer Time
  • JST - Japan Standard Time
  • KST - Korea Standard Time
  • PWT - Palau Time
  • TLT - East Timor Time
  • ULAST - Ulaanbaatar Summer Time
  • WIT - Eastern Indonesian Time
  • YAKT - Yakutsk Time

London Time Zone and Facts

Time Zone

Abbreviation / Offset
BST – British Summer Time, UTC+1 (now, daylight saving time)
GMT – Greenwich Mean Time, UTC+0 (standard time)
Daylight Saving Time Ends
123456789101112Sunday, October 25, 2026 at 2:00 amSunday, October 25, 2026 at 02:00: clocks go back 1 hour to 1:00 am01:00 (GMT). DST ends on the last Sunday of October each year. Also called Fall Back or Winter Time.
Daylight Saving Time Starts
123456789101112Sunday, March 28, 2027 at 1:00 amSunday, March 28, 2027 at 01:00: clocks go forward 1 hour to 2:00 am02:00 (BST). DST starts on the last Sunday of March each year. Also called Spring Forward or Summer Time.

London Facts

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