MSK to UTC
Coordinated Universal Time is 3 hours behind Moscow Time, all year round.
MSK to UTC conversion table
Every hour of the day, Moscow Time to Coordinated Universal Time. The gap never changes, so this table holds on every date.
| MSK | UTC |
|---|---|
| 12:00 AM | 9:00 PM −1 day |
| 1:00 AM | 10:00 PM −1 day |
| 2:00 AM | 11:00 PM −1 day |
| 3:00 AM | 12:00 AM |
| 4:00 AM | 1:00 AM |
| 5:00 AM | 2:00 AM |
| 6:00 AM | 3:00 AM |
| 7:00 AM | 4:00 AM |
| 8:00 AM | 5:00 AM |
| 9:00 AM | 6:00 AM |
| 10:00 AM | 7:00 AM |
| 11:00 AM | 8:00 AM |
| MSK | UTC |
|---|---|
| 12:00 PM | 9:00 AM |
| 1:00 PM | 10:00 AM |
| 2:00 PM | 11:00 AM |
| 3:00 PM | 12:00 PM |
| 4:00 PM | 1:00 PM |
| 5:00 PM | 2:00 PM |
| 6:00 PM | 3:00 PM |
| 7:00 PM | 4:00 PM |
| 8:00 PM | 5:00 PM |
| 9:00 PM | 6:00 PM |
| 10:00 PM | 7:00 PM |
| 11:00 PM | 8:00 PM |
Shared working hours
Taking a working day as 09:00–17:00 in each zone, Moscow Time and Coordinated Universal Time overlap for 5 hours.
12:00 PM–5:00 PM in MSK is 9:00 AM–2:00 PM in UTC.
When the difference changes
It doesn't. Coordinated Universal Time is 3 hours behind Moscow Time on every date of the year. Moscow Time runs at UTC+03:00; Coordinated Universal Time runs at UTC+00:00.
About Moscow Time
Moscow has been a fixed UTC+3 since 2014, after Russia spent three years on permanent daylight time and then abandoned the experiment. Istanbul, Nairobi, Riyadh and Doha keep the same clock year-round, so the figures here apply to them too.
Cities on this clock: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Minsk, Istanbul, Ankara, Riyadh, Baghdad, Doha.
About Coordinated Universal Time
UTC never shifts. It is the reference every other zone is defined against, which is why logs, flight schedules and protocol timestamps use it. GMT is the same clock for every civil purpose, so a query for one is answered by the other.
Cities on this clock: Reykjavik, Accra, Abidjan, Dakar.
Watch out: GMT is also used loosely to mean "UK time", and those are not the same thing for seven months of the year — the United Kingdom moves to BST (UTC+1) while UTC stays put.
How the difference is worked out
Neither Moscow Time nor Coordinated Universal Time moves its clock relative to the other, so coordinated universal time is 3 hours behind moscow time is a rule rather than a fact about one particular year. The hour-by-hour table above holds on every date.
With both zones on their own standard time — daylight saving not in force anywhere — Coordinated Universal Time is 3 hours behind Moscow Time. That figure never changes; everything else on this page follows from it plus whichever clocks have moved.
Every figure here comes from the IANA time zone database via your browser's own Intl engine, using the zone ids Europe/Moscow and UTC. Nothing is looked up on a server and nothing about your visit is recorded.
Is UTC ahead of or behind MSK?
Coordinated Universal Time is 3 hours behind Moscow Time, all year round. Moscow Time runs at UTC+03:00; Coordinated Universal Time runs at UTC+00:00. Because neither zone changes its clock, the gap never moves.
What time is 9 AM MSK in UTC?
9:00 AM MSK is 6:00 AM UTC.
When can Moscow Time and Coordinated Universal Time meet?
Taking a working day as 09:00–17:00 in each zone, the two overlap for 5 hours: 12:00 PM–5:00 PM in Moscow Time, which is 9:00 AM–2:00 PM in Coordinated Universal Time.
What does MSK stand for?
MSK is Moscow Time, also written Moscow time. Moscow has been a fixed UTC+3 since 2014, after Russia spent three years on permanent daylight time and then abandoned the experiment. Istanbul, Nairobi, Riyadh and Doha keep the same clock year-round, so the figures here apply to them too.