Time in Singapore now
8:06PMUTC+8
UTC+8+13 h vs New York (you)Asia/Singapore
No clock changes: Singapore stays on UTC+8 all year.
Time zone in Singapore
Singapore uses a single time zone: UTC+8 all year. Every clock in the country shows the same time.
Singapore lies at 103.9° east, where mean solar time is UTC+6:55 (four minutes per degree of longitude). The clocks run 1 h 5 min ahead of the sun, so on average the sun is highest at about 1:05 PM. A gap of an hour or more means late sunrises and long evenings.
Daylight saving time in Singapore
No. Singapore has not used daylight saving time since 1932, and the clocks stay on UTC+8 all year.
Clock history of Singapore
The record begins with local mean time (clocks set by the sun, UTC+6:55 in Singapore), which ended on December 31, 1900, 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 Singapore year by year since 1970, from the tzdata entry Asia/Singapore.
| 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 Singapore time
Time difference between Singapore and major cities
| City | Local time now | Singapore vs city now | January | July | Office overlap Jan / Jul |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 7:06 AM Tue, Nov 3 | +13 h | +13 h | +12 h | none / none |
| Los Angeles | 4:06 AM Tue, Nov 3 | +16 h | +16 h | +15 h | none / none |
| London | 12:06 PM Tue, Nov 3 | +8 h | +8 h | +7 h | none / 1 h |
| Berlin | 1:06 PM Tue, Nov 3 | +7 h | +7 h | +6 h | 1 h / 2 h |
| Dubai | 4:06 PM Tue, Nov 3 | +4 h | +4 h | +4 h | 4 h / 4 h |
| New Delhi | 5:36 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 | 9:06 PM Tue, Nov 3 | −1 h | −1 h | −1 h | 7 h / 7 h |
| Sydney | 11:06 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 Singapore’s office hours overlap yours today.
Singapore and New York share no office hours: when offices open at 9:00 AM in Singapore, 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 Singapore is 8:00 AM in New York.
A 9-to-5 day in Singapore overlaps London’s for 0 min in January (7:30 AM–7:30 AM Singapore time), 1 h in July. At 9:00 AM in Singapore it is 1:00 AM in London.
A 9-to-5 day in Singapore overlaps New Delhi’s for 5 h 30 min in January (11:30 AM–5:00 PM Singapore time) and the same in July. At 9:00 AM in Singapore 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 Singapore and the difference now.
| City | Distance | Time now | Their clock vs here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Batam Indonesia | 20 km | 7:06 PM WIB | −1 h |
| West Island Cocos Islands | 1,680 km | 6:36 PM UTC+6:30 | −1 h 30 min |
Same clock as Singapore
These places keep exactly the same time as Singapore all year under the current rules (zones Antarctica/Casey, Asia/Hong_Kong, Asia/Irkutsk, Asia/Kuching, Asia/Macau and 6 more).
Singapore at a glance
- CapitalSingapore
- Population6,111,175
- Time zone IDAsia/Singapore
- Standard timeUTC+8
- Daylight saving timenone
- Calling code+65