UTC to KST Converter
Time Difference
Universal Time Coordinated is 9 hours behind Korea Standard Time
12:30 am00:30 in UTC is 9:30 am09:30 in KST
UTC to KST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-10am in UTC which corresponds to 5pm-7pm in KST
12:30 am00:30 Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
9:30 am09:30 Korea Standard Time (KST). Offset UTC +9:00 hours
12:30 am00:30 UTC / 9:30 am09:30 KST
UTC | KST |
---|---|
12am (midnight) | 9am |
1am | 10am |
2am | 11am |
3am | 12pm (noon) |
4am | 1pm |
5am | 2pm |
6am | 3pm |
7am | 4pm |
8am | 5pm |
9am | 6pm |
10am | 7pm |
11am | 8pm |
12pm (noon) | 9pm |
1pm | 10pm |
2pm | 11pm |
3pm | 12am (midnight) |
4pm | 1am |
5pm | 2am |
6pm | 3am |
7pm | 4am |
8pm | 5am |
9pm | 6am |
10pm | 7am |
11pm | 8am |
0:00 | 9:00 |
1:00 | 10:00 |
2:00 | 11:00 |
3:00 | 12:00 |
4:00 | 13:00 |
5:00 | 14:00 |
6:00 | 15:00 |
7:00 | 16:00 |
8:00 | 17:00 |
9:00 | 18:00 |
10:00 | 19:00 |
11:00 | 20:00 |
12:00 | 21:00 |
13:00 | 22:00 |
14:00 | 23:00 |
15:00 | 0:00 |
16:00 | 1:00 |
17:00 | 2:00 |
18:00 | 3:00 |
19:00 | 4:00 |
20:00 | 5:00 |
21:00 | 6:00 |
22:00 | 7:00 |
23:00 | 8:00 |
Universal Time Coordinated
Offset: UTC is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Universal
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the world time standard that regulates clocks and time. It is successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). For casual use, UTC is the same as GMT, but is used by the scientific community.
UTC is the time standard commonly used across the world since 1972. It is used in many technical fields, like aviation industry and meteorologists, also used to synchronize time across internet networks.
UTC representations, usage and related time zones
- Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offset, also known as 'Zulu' time
- +00 - basic short
- +0000 - basic
- +00:00 - extended
- +0000 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (00) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates zero hour and zero minutes time differences of the zero meridian.
- Zulu - Military abbreviation for UTC
- Z - short form of 'Zulu'
- Etc/UCT
- Etc/UTC
- Etc/Universal
- Etc/Zulu
- UCT
- UTC
- Universal
- Zulu
- EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
- GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
- WET - Western European Time
- AZOST - Azores Summer Time
- UTC - Universal Time Coordinated
- WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
- Z - Zulu Time Zone
Korea Standard Time
Offset: KST is 9 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Asia
Countries: It is used in following countries: Korea (North), Korea (South)
Principal Cities: The largest city in the KST timezone is Seoul from South Korea with population about 10.349 million people. Other major cities in the area are Busan, Pyongyang, Incheon, Daegu
Daylight Saving: Korea Standard Time (KST) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore KST remains the same through out the year. This means, unlike some time zones where the clock is set forward by one hour every summer and backward by one hour during winter to adjust for daylight saving, Korea Standard Time remains the same

KST representations, usage and related time zones
- +09 - basic short
- +0900 - basic
- +09:00 - extended
- +0900 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (09) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates nine hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
- India - Military abbreviation for KST
- I - short form of 'India'
- Asia/Pyongyang
- Asia/Seoul
- ROK
- Korea Standard Time - UTC +9
- Pyongyang Time - UTC +8:30
- 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