Time in Manila
Philippines · Asia/Manila · latitude 14.60°
Reading your clock…
Manila never changes its clocks
Manila stays on UTC+08:00 all year round. This is worth being careful about rather than relaxed about: the gap between Manila 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.
Time difference from Manila
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 | 7 hours behind | −8h / −7h |
| New York | 12 hours behind | −13h / −12h |
| Los Angeles | 15 hours behind | −16h / −15h |
| Chicago | 13 hours behind | −14h / −13h |
| Toronto | 12 hours behind | −13h / −12h |
| Paris | 6 hours behind | −7h / −6h |
| Berlin | 6 hours behind | −7h / −6h |
| Dubai | 4 hours behind | constant |
| Mumbai | 2 hours 30 minutes behind | constant |
| Singapore | the same time | constant |
| Hong Kong | the same time | constant |
| Tokyo | 1 hour ahead | constant |
| Sydney | 2 hours ahead | +2h / +3h |
| Auckland | 4 hours ahead | +4h / +5h |
| São Paulo | 11 hours behind | constant |
| UTC | 8 hours behind | constant |
Daylight in Manila through the year
From about 11.3 hours in December to 13.0 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 | 06:29 | 17:53 | 11h 24m |
| February | 06:22 | 18:07 | 11h 45m |
| March | 06:05 | 18:12 | 12h 7m |
| April | 05:44 | 18:15 | 12h 31m |
| May | 05:31 | 18:22 | 12h 51m |
| June | 05:32 | 18:32 | 13h 0m |
| July | 05:41 | 18:33 | 12h 52m |
| August | 05:47 | 18:21 | 12h 34m |
| September | 05:49 | 17:58 | 12h 9m |
| October | 05:52 | 17:37 | 11h 45m |
| November | 06:04 | 17:29 | 11h 25m |
| December | 06:20 | 17:36 | 11h 16m |
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 Manila
What time zone is Manila in?
Manila uses the IANA time zone Asia/Manila, a fixed UTC+08:00 with no daylight saving.
Does Manila observe daylight saving time?
No. Manila stays on UTC+08:00 all year. That does not mean the gap between Manila 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 Manila 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 8 hours behind, then 7 hours behind across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Manila get?
Around 13.0 hours at the longest, in June, and about 11.3 hours at the shortest, in December. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Manila's latitude of 14.60° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.