| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −6h | Becomes −7h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −5h | Becomes −6h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | −3h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +2h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +3h | Becomes +4h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −11h | Becomes −12h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −14h | Becomes −15h on 1 Nov |
Luang Prabang, Laos runs on UTC+7. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+7 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Luang Prabang and New York is 11 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 Luang Prabang and London is 6 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 15:00–18:00 in Luang Prabang lines up with 09:00–12:00 in London. The time difference between Luang Prabang and Tokyo is 2 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 7 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–16:00 in Luang Prabang lines up with 11:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Bangkok, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Luang Prabang.
Luang Prabang (Laos) is home to roughly 55K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:02, sunset at 18:00. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+7 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 20° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Capital
Vientiane
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+7 · Asia/Vientiane
Coordinates
19.89°N, 102.13°E
Currency
LAK (₭)
Calling Code
+856
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Lao
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Several hundred monks walk the tak bat alms round through Luang Prabang every morning before sunrise, collecting rice from kneeling residents. The practice has run continuously for centuries, and it has become the most recognisable image of the UNESCO-listed town.
The clock: Luang Prabang keeps UTC+7. The ceremony begins at first light, so its start time drifts through the year while the clock stays still.
Luang Prabang lies at 102.1°E. Its time zone, UTC+7, is built around the 105°E meridian. The 2.9° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 11 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:11 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+7 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 13h 20m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 10h 56m. The swing between them is 2h 24m. Inside the tropics the day length stays within a narrow band all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Luang Prabang the sun comes up earliest on 7 June at 05:31, while the latest sunset waits until 7 July 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 Luang Prabang that civil twilight runs about 22 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 Luang Prabang, Laos is Asia/Vientiane with a current UTC offset of UTC+7.
Luang Prabang has an estimated population of 55K and is located at coordinates 19.89°N, 102.13°E.
Luang Prabang gets 13h 20m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 56m on its shortest, averaging 12h 9m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Luang Prabang falls at about 12:11 on UTC+7 standard time, because the city sits 2.9° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Alms at Dawn: Several hundred monks walk the tak bat alms round through Luang Prabang every morning before sunrise, collecting rice from kneeling residents.