What time is it in Belarus?
GMT+3 · Europe/Minsk
Back to BelarusNow in Minsk
GMT+3 UTC+03:00
UTC+03:00
all yearMoscow Standard Time
Belarus keeps UTC+3 through the whole year, with no summer time and no winter time. Its clocks went forward in March 2011 and were never put back, so what was once summer time became the standard. One zone, filed in the time zone database as Europe/Minsk, covers the entire country.
Today
Daylight in Minsk today
DayLive
12:00
- Sunrise
- 07:05First light 06:30
- Sunset
- 18:55Last light 19:31
- Day length
- 11 h 51 min−4 min on yesterday
- Solar noon
- 13:00Sun at 34°, its highest
Plan a call
Find an hour that works in Belarus and elsewhere
The two rows are the same day, hour for hour. Pick a city, then an hour, and the line between the rows marks the office hours both sides share.
Time difference
How far Belarus is from other places
Neighbours
- LithuaniaVilniusSame time
- LatviaRigaSame time
- PolandWarsaw−1 h
- RussiaMoscowSame time
- UkraineKyivSame time
Around the world
- London−2 h
- New York−7 h
- Los Angeles−10 h
- São Paulo−6 h
- Dubai+1 h
- Delhi+2:30 h
- Beijing+5 h
- Tokyo+6 h
- Sydney+7 h
Clock changes
Belarus does not change its clocks
Belarus has used summer time in three runs. From 1941 to 1944 its clocks moved between UTC+1, UTC+2 and UTC+3 more than once. The Soviet Union brought summer time back on 1 April 1981, and until 1989 Belarus ran on UTC+3 in winter and UTC+4 in summer; 1990 passed with no change. From 1991 the country kept UTC+2 in winter and UTC+3 in summer. The last change came in March 2011: the clocks went forward and Belarus decided to stay on that time for good.
Daylight
Sunrise and sunset through the year in Minsk
- Sunrise
- 07:05
- Sunset
- 18:55
- Daylight
- 11 h 51 min
- Change
- −4 min
Longest day of 2026: 20 June, 17 h 08 min.
Computed for 53.90, 27.56 at sea level with the NOAA solar equations, to the nearest minute, taking no account of hills.
Writing the time
- Clock
- 24-hour
- Short date
- 5.03.26
- Long date
- 5 сакавіка 2026 г.
- Week starts
- Monday
- Zone names
- GMT+3
- Time zone database
- Minsk
History
How the clocks in Belarus got here
- 1890
- To 1923.Local mean time, UTC+01:50, before the standard zone.
- 1924
- The move from local mean time, UTC+01:50, to UTC+02:00.
- 1925
- To 1929.UTC+02:00 all year.
- 1930
- Clocks on UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00 at different times of the year.
- 1931
- To 1940.UTC+03:00 all year, no summer time.
- 1941
- Clocks on UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00 at different times of the year.
- 1942
- Clocks on UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00 at different times of the year.
- 1943
- Clocks on UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00 at different times of the year.
- 1944
- Clocks on UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00 at different times of the year.
- 1945
- To 1980.UTC+03:00 all year, no summer time.
- 1981
- To 1989.UTC+03:00 in winter, UTC+04:00 in summer time.
- 1990
- UTC+03:00 all year, no summer time.
- 1991
- Clocks on UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00 at different times of the year.
- 1992
- To 2010.Clocks on UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00 at different times of the year.
- 2011
- Clocks on UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00 at different times of the year.
- 2012
- To today.UTC+03:00 all year, no summer time.
From the IANA time zone database, Europe/Minsk, as the build machine carries it.
Common questions
Questions about the time in Belarus
What time zone is Belarus in?
UTC+3, all year round. The time zone database lists the country as Europe/Minsk, and one zone covers all of it. The offset is the one Moscow Time uses, and it is the same offset Belarus used to switch to only in summer before 2011.
Does Belarus change its clocks for summer?
No. The last change was in March 2011, when the clocks went forward an hour and stayed there. Belarus had kept UTC+2 in winter and UTC+3 in summer for the twenty years before that, and it decided after 2011 to remain permanently on what it used to call summer time. Nothing on file schedules a change for 2026 or 2027.
Is Belarus on the same time as Moscow?
Yes, today. Both keep UTC+3 without a seasonal change. That has held since October 2014, when Russia moved its western zone, Moscow included, back from UTC+4 to UTC+3. Between March 2011 and October 2014 Russia stayed on permanent summer time at UTC+4, so for those three and a half years Minsk was an hour behind Moscow.
What is the time difference between Belarus and Poland?
Two hours in winter and one hour in summer. Poland keeps Central European Time, UTC+1, and moves to UTC+2 from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October, while Belarus stays at UTC+3. In 2026 the gap narrowed on 29 March and widens again on 25 October; in 2027 the dates are 28 March and 31 October.
Are Lithuania and Latvia on the same time as Belarus?
Only in summer. Lithuania and Latvia keep UTC+2 in winter and UTC+3 in summer, so from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October their clocks match those of Belarus. For the rest of the year Belarus is an hour ahead.
Why is Belarus on UTC+3 when it lies so far west?
Because it kept summer time as its standard. The centre of the country lies at about 28 degrees east, while UTC+3 is reckoned from the meridian at 45 degrees east, some 17 degrees further on. Belarus is counted among the European countries that can be read as keeping permanent summer time, on a zone allotted to land further east.
What is the time difference between Belarus and London?
Three hours in winter and two in summer. The United Kingdom changes its clocks on the last Sundays of March and October and Belarus does not, so a meeting at 12:00 in Minsk is 09:00 in London from late October to late March and 10:00 for the rest of the year.