| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −8h | Becomes −9h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −7h | Becomes −8h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | −5h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | ±0h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +1h | Becomes +2h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −13h | Becomes −14h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −16h | Becomes −17h on 1 Nov |
Jayapura, Indonesia runs on UTC+9. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+9 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Jayapura and New York is 13 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with New York, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. The time difference between Jayapura and London is 8 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hour a day with London. A good time to connect: 17:00–18:00 in Jayapura lines up with 09:00–10:00 in London. Jayapura and Tokyo currently share the same clock. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 9 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–18:00 in Jayapura lines up with 09:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Seoul, Pyongyang, Osaka. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Jayapura.
Jayapura (Indonesia) is home to roughly 400K people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:23, sunset at 17:30. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+9 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 3° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Indonesia
Capital
Jakarta
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+9 · Asia/Jayapura
Coordinates
2.53°S, 140.72°E
Currency
IDR (Rp)
Calling Code
+62
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
Indonesian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Jayapura sits about 50 km from the border with Papua New Guinea, and Lake Sentani beside it holds around 20 islands and a fish species found nowhere else. Douglas MacArthur ran his 1944 New Guinea campaign from a hill above the lake.
The clock: Jayapura keeps UTC+9, Indonesia's eastern zone — two hours ahead of Jakarta, in a country that spans about 5,100 km east to west.
Jayapura lies at 140.7°E. Its time zone, UTC+9, is built around the 135°E meridian. The 5.7° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 23 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:37 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+9 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 12h 16m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 11h 58m. The swing between them is 18 minutes. Within a few degrees of the equator the length of the day barely moves all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Jayapura the sun comes up earliest on 6 November at 05:15, while the latest sunset waits until 9 February at 17:57. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Jayapura that civil twilight runs about 21 minutes at the equinox.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Jayapura, Indonesia is Asia/Jayapura with a current UTC offset of UTC+9.
Jayapura has an estimated population of 400K and is located at coordinates 2.53°S, 140.72°E.
Jayapura gets 12h 16m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 58m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Jayapura falls at about 11:37 on UTC+9 standard time, because the city sits 5.7° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Indonesia's Easternmost City: Jayapura sits about 50 km from the border with Papua New Guinea, and Lake Sentani beside it holds around 20 islands and a fish species found nowhere else.