# UTC+05:00

UTC+05:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +05:00. This time is used in:

## As standard time (year-round)

Principal cities: Astana, Almaty, Kokshetau, Tashkent, Ashgabat, Dushanbe, Malé, Yekaterinburg, Martin-de-Viviès, Port-aux-Français, Aktobe, Atyrau, Kyzylorda, Aktau, Islamabad, Karachi

### South Asia

* Maldives – Time in the Maldives
* Pakistan - Time in Pakistan

### Central Asia

* Kazakhstan – Time in Kazakhstan
* Tajikistan – Time in Tajikistan
* Turkmenistan – Time in Turkmenistan
* Uzbekistan – Time in Uzbekistan

### Eastern Europe

* Russia – Yekaterinburg Time
* Volga Federal District
** Bashkortostan, Orenburg Oblast and Perm Krai
* Ural Federal District
** Chelyabinsk Oblast, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Kurgan Oblast, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Tyumen Oblast and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

### Antarctica
#### Southern Ocean

* France
** Kerguelen Islands
** Île Saint Paul and Île Amsterdam
* Australia
** Heard Island and McDonald Islands
* Some bases in Antarctica. See also Time in Antarctica.
** Australia
*** Mawson Station
** Russia
*** Vostok Station
Armenia and Azerbaijan used this as daylight saving time (DST) in 1981–2012 and 1981–2016 respectively, called Armenia Summer Time (AMST) and Azerbaijan Summer Time (AZST).

## Discrepancies between official UTC+05:00 and geographical UTC+05:00
### Areas in UTC+05:00 longitudes using other time zones

Using UTC+08:00:
* China
** Parts of western areas in the country, including western Xinjiang province (Kashgar) (although most locals observe UTC+06:00)
Using UTC+07:00:
* Russia
** Most parts of Novosibirsk Oblast
** Partly of Tomsk Oblast
Using UTC+06:00:
* Kyrgyzstan
* British Indian Ocean Territory
* Russia
** Omsk Oblast
Using UTC+05:45:
* Nepal
** Parts of western in the country, including:
*** Sudurpashchim
*** mostly part of Karnali
*** western part of Lumbini
Using UTC+05:30:
* Sri Lanka
* India, with parts of its territories:
** Gujarat
** Rajasthan
** Punjab
** Ladakh
** Uttarakhand
** Maharashtra
** Telangana
** Karnataka
** Kerala
** Haryana
** Tamil Nadu
** Himachal Pradesh
** Madhya Pradesh
** Jammu and Kashmir
** Delhi, including nation's capital New Delhi
** A smaller parts of Odisha
*** Most parts of Uttar Pradesh
*** Most parts of Andhra Pradesh
*** Southwest of Chhattisgarh
Using UTC+04:30:
* Afghanistan
** Eastern parts, where the nation's capital Kabul is
Using UTC+03:00:
* Russia
** The very east of Severny Island with 69°2' E as the easternmost point

### Areas outside UTC+05:00 longitudes using UTC+05:00 time
#### Areas between 82°30' E and 97°30' E ("physical" UTC+06:00)

* Russia
** The very easternmost parts of Ural Federal District
* Kazakhstan
** Parts of East Kazakhstan

#### Areas between 52°30' E and 67°30' E ("physical" UTC+04:00)

* Turkmenistan
* Kazakhstan
** Aktobe
** Kyzylorda
** parts of Mangystau, Atyrau, and West Kazakhstan
* Uzbekistan
** Most parts, including Samarkand
* Pakistan
** Western parts, including Karachi
* Russia
** Most parts of Ural Federal District

#### Areas between 37°30' E and 52°30' E ("physical" UTC+03:00)

* Russia
** Western tip of Perm Krai
** Western parts of the Orenburg Oblast

## Historical time offsets

Kyrgyzstan adopted this time zone as its standard time from 2 May 1924 to 21 June 1930, and from 31 March 1991 to 12 August 2005.