| 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 |
Medan, Indonesia runs on UTC+7. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+7 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Medan 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 Medan 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 Medan lines up with 09:00–12:00 in London. The time difference between Medan 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 Medan 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 Medan.
Medan (Indonesia) is home to roughly 2.4M people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:12, sunset at 18:17. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+7 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 4° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Indonesia
Capital
Jakarta
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+7 · Asia/Jakarta
Coordinates
3.59°N, 98.67°E
Currency
IDR (Rp)
Calling Code
+62
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Indonesian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Medan grew from a village into a city on Deli tobacco, which by the late 19th century was the most valuable cigar wrapper leaf in the world. The plantation houses and the Maimun Palace date from that money.
The clock: Medan keeps UTC+7 on the north-east coast of Sumatra, which puts it further west than most of Thailand while keeping the same hour.
Medan lies at 98.7°E. Its time zone, UTC+7, is built around the 105°E meridian. The 6.3° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 25 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:25 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 12h 20m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 55m. The swing between them is 25 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 Medan the sun comes up earliest on 26 October at 06:09, while the latest sunset waits until 22 July at 18:41. 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 Medan 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 Medan, Indonesia is Asia/Jakarta with a current UTC offset of UTC+7.
Medan has an estimated population of 2.4M and is located at coordinates 3.59°N, 98.67°E.
Medan gets 12h 20m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 55m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Medan falls at about 12:25 on UTC+7 standard time, because the city sits 6.3° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Built on Tobacco: Medan grew from a village into a city on Deli tobacco, which by the late 19th century was the most valuable cigar wrapper leaf in the world. The plantation houses and the Maimun Palace date from that money.