Time in Tajikistan

Time in Tajikistan is given by Tajikistan Time (TJT; UTC+05:00). Tajikistan does not currently observe daylight saving time.^[1] The IANA identifier for Tajikistan Time is Asia/Dushanbe. Tajikistan observes the same time zone as most of its central Asian neighbors such as, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Tajikistan Standard Time
Time zone
Map of South Asia with time zones; Tajikistan is colored green to indicate UTC+05:00.
UTC offset
BST	UTC+05:00
Current time
00:11, 29 July 2025 BST [refresh]
Observance of DST
DST is not observed in this time zone.

IANA time zone database

Data for Tajikistan directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database. Columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself.

c.c.*	Coordinates*	TZ*	Comments*	UTC offset
TJ	+3835+06848	Asia/Dushanbe		+05:00

History

Historic time zones for Tajikistan (both as an independent country and a Soviet state)^[2]

From	To	Zone	DST
2 May 1924	21 June 1930	UTC+5	no
21 June 1930	1 April 1981	UTC+6	no
1 April 1981	31 March 1991	UTC+6	yes
31 March 1991	9 September 1991	UTC+5	yes
9 September 1991	Present	UTC+5	no