Time zone · Europe
MST
Moscow Standard Time
Moscow Standard Time (MST) is a fixed UTC+03:00 timezone with no daylight saving changes, making it easy to plan across member zones in Belarus, Russia, and Crimea without seasonal clock shifts. Living or working here means stable timing year-round—no springing forward or falling back.
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Current offset
UTC+03:00
Standard · +03
Daylight saving
Not observed
Year-round standard time
IANA zones
3
None observe daylight saving
DST offset
—
No summer variant
About MST
A fixed, year-round offset.
Moscow Standard Time (MST) is a fixed UTC+03:00 timezone with no daylight saving changes, making it easy to plan across member zones in Belarus, Russia, and Crimea without seasonal clock shifts. Living or working here means stable timing year-round—no springing forward or falling back.
IANA zones · the technical identifiers
The 3 zones that resolve to MST.
For software, always store the IANA identifier — never the abbreviation alone. The database keeps these zones distinct because their rules can, and historically did, diverge.
Cities across MST
Local time, city by city.
17 cities
Where MST is used
3 countries.
Same offset · UTC+03:00
Other zones at UTC+03:00 right now.
These named zones share MST's offset today. When daylight saving rules differ, they drift apart for part of the year.
Convert
MST to the world's clocks.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about MST, daylight saving, and how to handle it in software. Can't find what you need? Email [email protected].
- Is there daylight saving time in MST?
- No. Russia and Belarus stopped changing their clocks in 2011, and Crimea has used Moscow Time without daylight saving since 2014. The offset stays at UTC+03:00 all year.
- Which countries follow Moscow Standard Time?
- Belarus, most of European Russia (including Moscow), and Crimea all use UTC+03:00 with no daylight saving changes.
- Why isn’t MST changing clocks anymore?
- Russia and Belarus stopped changing clocks on 27 March 2011. Moscow then stayed on UTC+04:00 until 26 October 2014, when it moved back to UTC+03:00 permanently. Crimea joined Moscow Time in 2014.
Source: IANA tzdb2026d · Reviewed
Free · Developer API
This time zone, as JSON.
Its defining offset, DST status and member counts, from one endpoint.
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