What time is it in Mongolia right now? 🇲🇳
It is 7:19 pm in Ulaanbaatar right now, Friday, September 25, 2026. Mongolia runs on UTC+8, and on one further zone besides. Every reading on this page is computed from the IANA time zone database at the moment you loaded it, and the clocks above and below tick on from there.
Time in Mongolia now
Mongolia spans 2 different clock readings across 2 IANA zones, 1 hour apart from end to end. When it is 6:19 pm in Hovd it is already 7:19 pm in Ulaanbaatar, so "the time in Mongolia" is a question that needs a region attached to it.
The offset from UTC in Ulaanbaatar is UTC+8, which is 8 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Nine in the morning in Ulaanbaatar is 1:00 am UTC.
Mongolia time zones in full
Each row is a zone identifier from the IANA database, its reading at this instant, its offset from UTC and whether it is currently on standard or summer time. They do not all agree: the spread across Mongolia is 1 hour.
| Time zone | Time now | UTC offset | Abbreviation | Daylight saving |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Asia/Hovd | 6:19 pm | UTC+7 | UTC+7 | never moves |
Asia/Ulaanbaatar | 7:19 pm | UTC+8 | UTC+8 | never moves |
Does Mongolia have daylight saving time?
No part of Mongolia moves its clocks. The offset stays at UTC+8 through the whole year, which means a difference worked out today against Mongolia is still right in six months. Most of the world now works this way; the daylight saving habit is concentrated in Europe, North America and a short list of others.
A fixed offset makes Mongolia an easy place to schedule against, with one caveat: the country at the other end of the call may still be moving its clocks, so the gap can change even though nothing changed here. The windows further down this page are worked out at the current instant for exactly that reason.
Where Mongolia is on the map
The marker is on Ulaanbaatar, the point every sun reading and every call window on this page is worked out from.
An interactive map of Ulaanbaatar. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Ulaanbaatar on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Ulaanbaatar and major cities
Worked out at this instant rather than from a stored table, so daylight saving on either side is already in it.
| City | Time there now | Difference from Ulaanbaatar |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, CA | 4:19 am | 15 hours behind Ulaanbaatar |
| Chicago, IL | 6:19 am | 13 hours behind Ulaanbaatar |
| New York, NY | 7:19 am | 12 hours behind Ulaanbaatar |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 8:19 am | 11 hours behind Ulaanbaatar |
| London, United Kingdom | 12:19 pm | 7 hours behind Ulaanbaatar |
| Paris, France | 1:19 pm | 6 hours behind Ulaanbaatar |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 1:19 pm | 6 hours behind Ulaanbaatar |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 3:19 pm | 4 hours behind Ulaanbaatar |
| Delhi, India | 4:49 pm | 2 hours 30 minutes behind Ulaanbaatar |
| Singapore, Singapore | 7:19 pm | the same time |
| Tokyo, Japan | 8:19 pm | 1 hour ahead of Ulaanbaatar |
| Sydney, Australia | 9:19 pm | 2 hours ahead of Ulaanbaatar |
Best time to call Mongolia
A nine to five working day in Ulaanbaatar against a nine to five day elsewhere. The overlap column is the stretch when both desks are open, given on each side's own clock.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Ulaanbaatar | Window there |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York the US East Coast | 12 hours ahead | no shared working hours | try either side of the working day |
| Los Angeles the US West Coast | 15 hours ahead | no shared working hours | try either side of the working day |
| London the United Kingdom | 7 hours ahead | 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm | 9:00 am to 10:00 am |
| Mumbai India | 2 hours 30 minutes ahead | 11:30 am to 5:00 pm | 9:00 am to 2:30 pm |
Daylight hours in Ulaanbaatar today
In Ulaanbaatar the sun rose at 6:43 am today and sets at 6:45 pm, giving 12 hours 2 minutes of daylight. The capital is losing 3 minutes 27 seconds of daylight a day at the moment, and the sun stands highest at 12:44 pm.
Solar noon in Ulaanbaatar is 12:44 pm, which is 44 minutes after clock noon. That gap is the capital sitting at 106.91 degrees east while its clock is set to Asia/Ulaanbaatar, plus the equation of time, which today runs 8.2 minutes ahead of mean time.
Moon phase over Ulaanbaatar tonight
The moon is full moon tonight, 14.3 days into the current lunation, with roughly 100 percent of the disc lit. The next full moon falls on September 27, 2026 as Mongolia reads the date, at 12:48 am local. The moon phase page has the full cycle.
Current time in Mongolia cities
The 1 city this site covers inside Mongolia, alphabetically, each with its own ticking clock and its own sunrise page.
| City | Time now | Offset | Sunrise and sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ulaanbaatar | 7:19 pm | UTC+8 | Ulaanbaatar sun times |
Every IANA time zone in Mongolia
These are the identifiers a computer uses. A program that stores Asia/Ulaanbaatar rather than UTC+8 keeps working through every future rule change, which is the whole reason the database is keyed this way.
Convert Mongolia time to another zone
The converter pages below take UTC+8 against the zones people most often measure it from. Each one carries a full conversion table rather than a single answer.
Information about Mongolia
Mongolia sits in Asia, carries the ISO country code MN and a population of about 3,450,000. Its capital Ulaanbaatar is at 47.89 degrees north, 106.91 degrees east, which is the coordinate every sunrise and solar noon on this page is computed from.
Upcoming dates in Mongolia
Read on Mongolia's own clock, so the day counts below start from September 25 and not from a UTC date. The list is the internationally observed calendar plus the dates common across Asia, along with this country's own clock changes and the next solstices and equinoxes. National days set by a country's own statute are not included, because this site carries no statute table and a guessed one would be worse than an honest gap.
| Date | Day | What falls on it | Days away |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 22, 2026 | Tuesday | December solstice, 4:50 am local astronomical | 88 |
| December 25, 2026 | Friday | Christmas Day observed widely | 91 |
| December 31, 2026 | Thursday | New Year's Eve observance | 97 |
| January 1, 2027 | Friday | New Year's Day observed almost everywhere | 98 |
| March 21, 2027 | Sunday | March equinox, 4:24 am local astronomical | 177 |
| May 1, 2027 | Saturday | International Workers' Day public holiday in most countries | 218 |
| June 21, 2027 | Monday | June solstice, 10:10 pm local astronomical | 269 |
| September 23, 2027 | Thursday | September equinox, 2:01 pm local astronomical | 363 |
| December 22, 2027 | Wednesday | December solstice, 10:42 am local astronomical | 453 |
| December 25, 2027 | Saturday | Christmas Day observed widely | 456 |
Sun and moon in Ulaanbaatar today
The sun is up in Ulaanbaatar for 12 hours 2 minutes today, from 6:43 am to 6:45 pm. The moon sets in Ulaanbaatar at 4:47 am and comes up again at 6:02 pm. The next phase is the full moon on September 27, 2026. It is 97% lit at the moment, a waxing gibbous, filling out by about 3.4 percentage points a day.
| Sun | Time in Ulaanbaatar |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 4:58 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:35 am |
| Civil dawn | 6:12 am |
| Sunrise | 6:43 am |
| Solar noon | 12:44 pm |
| Sunset | 6:45 pm |
| Civil dusk | 7:16 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 7:52 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 8:29 pm |
Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.
| Light band | Time in Ulaanbaatar | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 6:12 am to 6:24 am | 0h 12m |
| Morning golden hour | 6:24 am to 7:24 am | 1h 00m |
| Evening golden hour | 6:04 pm to 7:04 pm | 1h 00m |
| Evening blue hour | 7:04 pm to 7:16 pm | 0h 12m |
Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.
| Moon | Reading in Ulaanbaatar |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:02 pm |
| Moonset | 4:47 am |
| Phase | waxing gibbous, waxing |
| Illumination | 97% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 14.0 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 386,000 km |
Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.
Meeting planner: Mongolia and four other places
Every hour of Friday, September 25, 2026 in Mongolia, read across 4 other places. Columns are Mongolia local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
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| Mongolia local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MongoliaUTC+8 UTC+8 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPDT UTC-7 | 9-1 | 10-1 | 11-1 | 12-1 | 13-1 | 14-1 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 12-1 | 13-1 | 14-1 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| LondonBST UTC+1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 21:30-1 | 22:30-1 | 23:30-1 | 0:30 | 1:30 | 2:30 | 3:30 | 4:30 | 5:30 | 6:30 | 7:30 | 8:30 | 9:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 |
No hour on Friday, September 25, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Mongolia and Los Angeles are 15 hours apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 4:00 pm in Mongolia it is working hours in Mongolia, London and Delhi, but outside them in Los Angeles and New York. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Mongolia spans 2 time zones, so the clock shown is Ulaanbaatar.
Prayer times in Ulaanbaatar
Seven days from September 25, 2026, computed for Ulaanbaatar at 47.89 degrees north, 106.91 degrees east, on the clock of Asia/Ulaanbaatar. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday September 25 | 4:58 am | 6:43 am | 12:44 pm | 4:02 pm | 6:45 pm | 8:23 pm |
| Saturday September 26 | 5:00 am | 6:44 am | 12:44 pm | 4:01 pm | 6:43 pm | 8:20 pm |
| Sunday September 27 | 5:01 am | 6:45 am | 12:43 pm | 3:59 pm | 6:41 pm | 8:18 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 5:03 am | 6:47 am | 12:43 pm | 3:58 pm | 6:39 pm | 8:16 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 5:04 am | 6:48 am | 12:43 pm | 3:56 pm | 6:37 pm | 8:14 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 5:06 am | 6:50 am | 12:42 pm | 3:55 pm | 6:35 pm | 8:12 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 5:07 am | 6:51 am | 12:42 pm | 3:53 pm | 6:33 pm | 8:10 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Ulaanbaatar, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.
Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.
Qibla direction from Ulaanbaatar
From Ulaanbaatar the qibla is 268.4 degrees on a true compass, which is west, or 1.6 degrees north of due west. The Kaaba is 6,568 km away, 4,081 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Ulaanbaatar to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.
The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Ulaanbaatar before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.
Questions about the time in Mongolia
- What time is it in Mongolia right now?
- It is 7:19 pm in Ulaanbaatar as this page was served, Friday, September 25, 2026. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.
- What time zone is Mongolia in?
- Mongolia uses 2 zones, from UTC+7 to UTC+8. The capital Ulaanbaatar is on Asia/Ulaanbaatar at UTC+8.
- What is the UTC offset in Mongolia?
- UTC+8 in Ulaanbaatar at this instant, and between UTC+7 and UTC+8 across the whole country.
- Does Mongolia observe daylight saving time?
- No. Mongolia stays on UTC+8 all year and does not move its clocks.
- What time does the sun set in Ulaanbaatar today?
- 6:45 pm, after a sunrise at 6:43 am and 12 hours 2 minutes of daylight.
- When is the best time to call Mongolia from the United States?
- The working days do not overlap: Ulaanbaatar is 12 hours ahead of New York, so one side has to take the call outside office hours.
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