| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −7h | Becomes −8h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −6h | Becomes −7h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | −4h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +1h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +2h | Becomes +3h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −12h | Becomes −13h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −15h | Becomes −16h on 1 Nov |
Kuching, Malaysia runs on UTC+8. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+8 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Kuching and New York is 12 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 Kuching and London is 7 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 16:00–18:00 in Kuching lines up with 09:00–11:00 in London. The time difference between Kuching and Tokyo is 1 hour. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 8 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–17:00 in Kuching lines up with 10:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Manila. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Kuching.
Kuching (Malaysia) is home to roughly 600K people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:25, sunset at 18:31. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+8 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 2° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Malaysia
Capital
Kuala Lumpur
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+8 · Asia/Kuching
Coordinates
1.55°N, 110.34°E
Currency
MYR (RM)
Calling Code
+60
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Malay
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Kucing means cat in Malay, and Kuching has leaned into the coincidence with several large cat statues and a dedicated cat museum holding thousands of feline artefacts. The actual etymology is disputed and probably has nothing to do with cats.
The clock: Kuching keeps UTC+8 in Sarawak, which had its own white-rajah dynasty ruling from here for a century until 1946.
Kuching lies at 110.3°E. Its time zone, UTC+8, is built around the 120°E meridian. The 9.7° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 39 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:39 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+8 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 12h 13m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 12h 2m. The swing between them is 11 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 Kuching the sun comes up earliest on 30 October at 06:20, while the latest sunset waits until 17 February at 18:55. 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 Kuching 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 Kuching, Malaysia is Asia/Kuching with a current UTC offset of UTC+8.
Kuching has an estimated population of 600K and is located at coordinates 1.55°N, 110.34°E.
Kuching gets 12h 13m of daylight on its longest day and 12h 2m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Kuching falls at about 12:39 on UTC+8 standard time, because the city sits 9.7° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The City of Cats: Kucing means cat in Malay, and Kuching has leaned into the coincidence with several large cat statues and a dedicated cat museum holding thousands of feline artefacts.