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Daegu vs London time difference and converter
London is 9 hours behind Daegu right now. Daegu sits in South Korea on Seoul; London sits in United Kingdom on London. They are roughly 9,092 km apart (5,650 mi), a flight of about 11h 42m. Daegu's metro holds around 2.4 million people; London's around 9.5 million.
Daegu
London
Best meeting times today
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00:00 / 15:00
Daegu / London
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01:00 / 16:00
Daegu / London
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09:00 / 00:00
Daegu / London
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Each row is one hour in Daegu. Green rows are inside business hours in both cities; amber means only one side is at their desk; grey rows fall outside business hours in both.
Public holidays in November 2026
No public holidays in South Korea or United Kingdom this month.
Travel context
Great-circle distance
9,092 km
(5,650 mi)
Approximate flight
11h 42m
850 km/h cruise + 1h taxi/climb/descent
Jet lag
9h
Roughly 1 day to adjust per timezone crossed
Convert any specific time
The heatmap gives you the shape of the day. If you need to convert one specific hour, say a customer call or a release window, open the converter with both cities already loaded.
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Working between Daegu and London
The difference between Daegu and London is not really a number, it's a daily rhythm. London is 9 hours behind Daegu on the clock today, but the lived version is that Daegu is ahead in the calendar, so by the time London comes online, half of Daegu's day is already gone. That gap, more than the raw offset, is what teams have to design around.
In Daegu, the working day picks up earliest in the financial districts- Daegu's downtown core wakes early and breaks for lunch at the usual hour. The mood in London is its own story: the Square Mile crowds Cannon Street at 08:00 and the pubs near Liverpool Street fill at 17:30. If you are scheduling between the two, the heatmap above marks the rows where both patterns line up.
Daylight saving is the other thing to keep an eye on. South Korea either observes DST or holds a fixed offset year-round; United Kingdom follows the EU calendar (last Sunday of March and October). When the two changes are weeks apart, the offset between Daegu and London is one hour off the usual for that stretch, a cliff that catches recurring calendar invites unless your calendar app rebases them automatically. Pin the meeting to a city, not an offset, and the tool handles the rest.
For travellers, the 11h 42m flight is the short version of the story. The longer one is jet lag: roughly one day of adjustment per timezone crossed, which means a trip across the 9-hour gap costs about 9 groggy days on each side. Pilots and cabin crew swear by morning sunlight and an early walk; whatever your routine, the wall-clock numbers above are the source of truth for your first morning in the new city.