Karachi uses Pakistan Standard Time (UTC+05:00), thirty minutes behind IST.
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Pakistan’s largest city is on Asia/Karachi. The half-hour difference with Mumbai is easy to miss in verbal abbreviations (PKT vs IST). Dubai is one hour behind Karachi.
Karachi uses Asia/Karachi. The current offset is UTC+05:00. Clocks on this page update from that IANA zone rather than from the server’s local time.
Karachi, Pakistan is in Pakistan Standard Time (Asia/Karachi). Karachi uses Pakistan Standard Time (UTC+05:00), thirty minutes behind IST.
This time zone does not observe daylight saving time Pakistan does not currently observe daylight saving time.
At this moment the offset difference is -00:30 hours relative to UTC labels, meaning Karachi compared with Mumbai can be converted in the time zone converter using Asia/Karachi and Asia/Kolkata. Daylight saving on either side is applied automatically.