| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −4h | Becomes −5h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −3h | Becomes −4h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | −1h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +4h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +5h | Becomes +6h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −9h | Becomes −10h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −12h | Becomes −13h on 1 Nov |
Malé, Maldives runs on UTC+5. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+5 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Malé and New York is 9 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 Malé and London is 4 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 5 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 13:00–18:00 in Malé lines up with 09:00–14:00 in London. The time difference between Malé and Tokyo is 4 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 5 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–14:00 in Malé lines up with 13:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Karachi, Astana, Lahore. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Malé.
Malé (Maldives) is home to roughly 210K people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:53, sunset at 17:58. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+5 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 4° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Capital
Malé 👑
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+5 · Indian/Maldives
Coordinates
4.18°N, 73.51°E
Currency
MVR (Rf)
Calling Code
+960
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Dhivehi
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Malé packs over 200,000 people onto roughly 8 square kilometres, giving it one of the highest population densities of any city in the world. There is no undeveloped land left; the city has built an artificial island next door to expand onto.
The clock: the Maldives keeps UTC+5. Its highest natural point is about 2.4 metres above sea level, the lowest of any country.
Malé lies at 73.5°E. Its time zone, UTC+5, is built around the 75°E meridian. The 1.5° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 6 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:06 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+5 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 12h 22m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 53m. The swing between them is 29 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 Malé the sun comes up earliest on 25 October at 05:50, while the latest sunset waits until 21 July at 18:22. 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 Malé 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 Malé, Maldives is Indian/Maldives with a current UTC offset of UTC+5.
Malé has an estimated population of 210K and is located at coordinates 4.18°N, 73.51°E. It is the capital city of Maldives.
Malé gets 12h 22m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 53m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Malé falls at about 12:06 on UTC+5 standard time, because the city sits 1.5° from the meridian its zone is built on.
One of the Most Crowded Cities on Earth: Malé packs over 200,000 people onto roughly 8 square kilometres, giving it one of the highest population densities of any city in the world.