Current time in Singapore
Singapore, Singapore, keeps Singapore Standard Time at UTC+08:00 all year, with no clock changes.
Current time in Singapore
23:22:01
Asia/Singapore · UTC+08:00
Time zone in Singapore
Sunrise and sunset in Singapore
Sun and clock in Singapore
Averaged over the year, solar noon in Singapore comes at 13:05, because the city lies about 16° west of the meridian its clock is set to.
Daylight through the year in Singapore
This close to the equator, sunrise moves more with the equation of time than with the seasons: the earliest comes on November 2 and the latest on February 2.
No city in another country and at least 30° of longitude away lies within a degree of Singapore’s latitude; the closest, Nairobi at 1.3°S, has a longest day of the same length to the minute.
| Date | Sunrise | Sunset | Day length |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 15 | 06:48 | 18:51 | 12 h 3 m |
| December 15 | 06:59 | 19:01 | 12 h 3 m |
| January 15 | 07:13 | 19:16 | 12 h 3 m |
| February 15 | 07:17 | 19:21 | 12 h 4 m |
| March 15 | 07:11 | 19:17 | 12 h 6 m |
| April 15 | 07:00 | 19:09 | 12 h 9 m |
| May 15 | 06:56 | 19:06 | 12 h 11 m |
| June 15 | 06:59 | 19:11 | 12 h 12 m |
| July 15 | 07:05 | 19:16 | 12 h 11 m |
| August 15 | 07:04 | 19:14 | 12 h 10 m |
| September 15 | 06:56 | 19:04 | 12 h 7 m |
| October 15 | 06:48 | 18:53 | 12 h 5 m |
When the clocks change in Singapore
Singapore has kept UTC+08:00 since December 31, 1981, when its clocks moved forward 30 min from UTC+07:30. The record opens with Singapore’s own local mean time, UTC+06:55:25, kept until 1905.
Calling Singapore from another time zone
| Place | Singapore’s 09:00–17:00 there | Shared working hours | Over the next 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTC | 01:00–09:00 | — | — |
| New York | 20:00–04:00 (previous day) | none | none all year |
| London | 01:00–09:00 | none | none to 1 h |
| Tokyo | 10:00–18:00 | 7 h, 09:00–16:00 Singapore time | always 7 h |
At 09:00 on Monday, November 9, 2026 in Singapore, 30 listed cities, including São Paulo and Lima, are still on Sunday. At 17:00 on Friday in Singapore, no other city in this directory has reached Saturday yet.
Singapore compared with other cities
| City | Local time | Date | UTC offset | Difference from Singapore | Over the next 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | — | — | UTC-05:00 | 13 h behind | 13 h behind / 12 h behind |
| London | — | — | UTC+00:00 | 8 h behind | 8 h behind / 7 h behind |
| Dubai | — | — | UTC+04:00 | 4 h behind | all year |
| New Delhi | — | — | UTC+05:30 | 2 h 30 min behind | all year |
| Tokyo | — | — | UTC+09:00 | 1 h ahead | all year |
| Sydney | — | — | UTC+11:00 | 3 h ahead | 2 h ahead / 3 h ahead |
| Los Angeles | — | — | UTC-08:00 | 16 h behind | 16 h behind / 15 h behind |
Nearby cities
| City | Distance | Clock | Solar noon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kuala Lumpur | 310 km north-west | same clock | 9 minutes later |
| Jakarta | 910 km south | 1 h behind | 12 minutes earlier |
| Ho Chi Minh City | 1,100 km north | 1 h behind | 11 minutes earlier |
| Bangkok | 1,430 km north | 1 h behind | 13 minutes later |
| Denpasar (Bali) | 1,680 km south-east | same clock | 46 minutes earlier |
| Hanoi | 2,200 km north | 1 h behind | 8 minutes earlier |
| Manila | 2,390 km north-east | same clock | 1 h 9 min earlier |
| Hong Kong | 2,590 km north-east | same clock | 41 minutes earlier |
Beyond Singapore’s own identifier, the nearest city in this directory on exactly the same clock is Kuala Lumpur, 310 km to the north-west, on Asia/Kuala_Lumpur.
Time zone rules: IANA tz database release 2026c, applied when this page was generated on 2026-11-02.
Frequently asked questions
What time zone is Singapore in?
Singapore keeps Asia/Singapore, Singapore Standard Time, at UTC+08:00 all year. The identifier is named after Singapore itself.
Which other countries keep exactly the same time as Singapore?
11 other countries and territories keep exactly Singapore’s clock, with no clock changes either.
What is the time difference between Singapore and Jakarta?
The clock in Jakarta, Indonesia, about 910 km away and the closest city in this directory on a different clock, is 1 h behind Singapore.