Time in Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam · Asia/Ho Chi Minh · latitude 10.82°
Reading your clock…
Ho Chi Minh City never changes its clocks
Ho Chi Minh City stays on UTC+07:00 all year round. This is worth being careful about rather than relaxed about: the gap between Ho Chi Minh City and a city that does observe daylight saving still moves twice a year, because the other end moved. A recurring call can drift by an hour without anything changing here at all.
Same clock, different sky: Hanoi, Da Nang share Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh. Sunrise and sunset differ between them because latitude does, even though the clock does not.
Time difference from Ho Chi Minh City
Where a range is shown, the gap genuinely changes during the year. That is not rounding or hedging — it is two governments moving their clocks on different weekends.
| City | Difference now | Across the year |
|---|---|---|
| London | 6 hours behind | −7h / −6h |
| New York | 11 hours behind | −12h / −11h |
| Los Angeles | 14 hours behind | −15h / −14h |
| Chicago | 12 hours behind | −13h / −12h |
| Toronto | 11 hours behind | −12h / −11h |
| Paris | 5 hours behind | −6h / −5h |
| Berlin | 5 hours behind | −6h / −5h |
| Dubai | 3 hours behind | constant |
| Mumbai | 1 hour 30 minutes behind | constant |
| Singapore | 1 hour ahead | constant |
| Hong Kong | 1 hour ahead | constant |
| Tokyo | 2 hours ahead | constant |
| Sydney | 3 hours ahead | +3h / +4h |
| Auckland | 5 hours ahead | +5h / +6h |
| São Paulo | 10 hours behind | constant |
| UTC | 7 hours behind | constant |
Daylight in Ho Chi Minh City through the year
From about 11.5 hours in December to 12.8 hours in June. This is the part a plain clock leaves out: 17:00 is a bright evening in one month and long dark in another.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 06:23 | 17:59 | 11h 36m |
| February | 06:19 | 18:10 | 11h 51m |
| March | 06:05 | 18:12 | 12h 7m |
| April | 05:47 | 18:12 | 12h 25m |
| May | 05:37 | 18:16 | 12h 39m |
| June | 05:39 | 18:25 | 12h 46m |
| July | 05:47 | 18:27 | 12h 40m |
| August | 05:51 | 18:17 | 12h 26m |
| September | 05:49 | 17:58 | 12h 9m |
| October | 05:50 | 17:40 | 11h 50m |
| November | 05:59 | 17:35 | 11h 36m |
| December | 06:13 | 17:43 | 11h 30m |
Daylight length is accurate. The clock times of sunrise and sunset assume each city sits at the centre of its time zone, which can put them up to about an hour and a quarter out for places near a zone's edge — Madrid being the standard example. Day length is unaffected.
Questions
About time in Ho Chi Minh City
What time zone is Ho Chi Minh City in?
Ho Chi Minh City uses the IANA time zone Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, a fixed UTC+07:00 with no daylight saving. The same zone covers Hanoi, Da Nang.
Does Ho Chi Minh City observe daylight saving time?
No. Ho Chi Minh City stays on UTC+07:00 all year. That does not mean the gap between Ho Chi Minh City and other cities is fixed, though: when a city that does observe daylight saving changes its clocks, the difference between you and them moves even though nothing changed here.
Why does the time difference to Ho Chi Minh City keep changing?
Because the two places do not change their clocks on the same weekend, and in opposite hemispheres they change in opposite directions. London is a clear example: it sits 7 hours behind, then 6 hours behind across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Ho Chi Minh City get?
Around 12.8 hours at the longest, in June, and about 11.5 hours at the shortest, in December. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Ho Chi Minh City's latitude of 10.82° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.