Nukus, Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan uses Asia/Samarkand, currently +05 (UTC+05:00). No clock changes are scheduled in the next 12 months.
Nukus is a city in Uzbekistan, home to around 332,500 people. Unlike many places, it does not observe daylight saving time.
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Nukus is the capital of Karakalpakstan in the far west of Uzbekistan, a Soviet-planned city on the edge of the Kyzylkum desert near the shrinking Aral Sea. It is low-rise and spread out, with wide empty avenues.
The Savitsky Museum is the reason to come, holding one of the world's largest collections of Soviet avant-garde art, saved from destruction by being hidden in this remote place, and it is genuinely extraordinary. The Aral Sea ship graveyard at Moynaq to the north, where fishing boats sit stranded on dry seabed, is the other major destination.
Taxis and shared vehicles cover the city, which is too spread out to walk comfortably. Reaching Moynaq and the former seabed requires a hired car and a long day, and flights connect to Tashkent.
Spring and autumn are the most comfortable. Summers in the desert are extremely hot and winters are severely cold, with the loss of the sea having made the climate more extreme in both directions.
Uzbekistan uses the UZS, calling code +998.
Uzbekistan uses the som, and Karakalpak and Uzbek are both spoken here with Russian widely understood. Hospitality is emphatic, and cash remains common though cards are increasingly accepted.
