Time in Malaysia now
8:05PMUTC+8
UTC+8+13 h vs New York (you)Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
No clock changes: Malaysia stays on UTC+8 all year.
Time zone in Malaysia
Malaysia uses a single time zone: UTC+8 all year. Every clock in the country shows the same time.
Kuala Lumpur lies at 101.7° east, where mean solar time is UTC+6:47 (four minutes per degree of longitude). The clocks run 1 h 13 min ahead of the sun, so on average the sun is highest at about 1:13 PM. A gap of an hour or more means late sunrises and long evenings.
Daylight saving time in Malaysia
No. Malaysia has not used daylight saving time since 1932, and the clocks stay on UTC+8 all year.
Clock history of Malaysia
The record begins with local mean time (clocks set by the sun, UTC+6:47 in Kuala Lumpur), which ended on January 1, 1901, when SMT (UTC+6:55) replaced it. There has been no daylight saving time since 1970; the last summer clock change in the record was in 1932. The table summarises the clocks of Malaysia year by year since 1970, from the tzdata entry Asia/Kuala_Lumpur.
| Years | Clocks | Abbreviations |
|---|---|---|
| 1970–1981 | UTC+7:30 all year | — |
| 1982 onward | UTC+8 all year | — |
Changes of the winter (standard) offset since 1970: Thursday, December 31, 1981, from UTC+7:30 to UTC+8.
Rows from 2027 on follow the rules in tzdata 2026f; a government decision would change them in the next release.
Convert Malaysia time
Time difference between Malaysia and major cities
| City | Local time now | Malaysia vs city now | January | July | Office overlap Jan / Jul |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 7:05 AM Tue, Nov 3 | +13 h | +13 h | +12 h | none / none |
| Los Angeles | 4:05 AM Tue, Nov 3 | +16 h | +16 h | +15 h | none / none |
| London | 12:05 PM Tue, Nov 3 | +8 h | +8 h | +7 h | none / 1 h |
| Berlin | 1:05 PM Tue, Nov 3 | +7 h | +7 h | +6 h | 1 h / 2 h |
| Dubai | 4:05 PM Tue, Nov 3 | +4 h | +4 h | +4 h | 4 h / 4 h |
| New Delhi | 5:35 PM Tue, Nov 3 | +2 h 30 min | +2 h 30 min | +2 h 30 min | 5 h 30 min / 5 h 30 min |
| Tokyo | 9:05 PM Tue, Nov 3 | −1 h | −1 h | −1 h | 7 h / 7 h |
| Sydney | 11:05 PM Tue, Nov 3 | −3 h | −3 h | −2 h | 5 h / 6 h |
Office hours and calls
With JavaScript on, this line shows how Malaysia’s office hours overlap yours today.
Malaysia and New York share no office hours: when offices open at 9:00 AM in Malaysia, it is 8:00 PM the day before in New York. A call has to be early or late for one side: 9:00 PM in Malaysia is 8:00 AM in New York.
A 9-to-5 day in Malaysia overlaps London’s for 0 min in January (7:30 AM–7:30 AM Malaysia time), 1 h in July. At 9:00 AM in Malaysia it is 1:00 AM in London.
A 9-to-5 day in Malaysia overlaps New Delhi’s for 5 h 30 min in January (11:30 AM–5:00 PM Malaysia time) and the same in July. At 9:00 AM in Malaysia it is 6:30 AM in New Delhi.
Neighbouring time zones
The nearest large cities on a different clock, with the straight-line distance from Kuala Lumpur and the difference now.
| City | Distance | Time now | Their clock vs here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pekanbaru Indonesia | 290 km | 7:05 PM WIB | −1 h |
| Yangon Myanmar | 1,640 km | 6:35 PM UTC+6:30 | −1 h 30 min |
| Chattogram Bangladesh | 2,380 km | 6:05 PM UTC+6 | −2 h |
| Colombo Sri Lanka | 2,450 km | 5:35 PM UTC+5:30 | −2 h 30 min |
Same clock as Malaysia
These places keep exactly the same time as Malaysia all year under the current rules (zones Antarctica/Casey, Asia/Hong_Kong, Asia/Irkutsk, Asia/Kuching, Asia/Macau and 6 more).
Cities in Malaysia
Malaysia at a glance
- CapitalKuala Lumpur
- Population35,977,838
- Time zone IDAsia/Kuala_Lumpur
- Standard timeUTC+8
- Daylight saving timenone
- Calling code+60