| 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 |
Padang, 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 Padang 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 Padang 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 Padang lines up with 09:00–12:00 in London. The time difference between Padang 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 Padang 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 Padang.
Padang (Indonesia) is home to roughly 910K people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:05, sunset at 18:12. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+7 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 1° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Indonesia
Capital
Jakarta
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+7 · Asia/Jakarta
Coordinates
0.95°S, 100.35°E
Currency
IDR (Rp)
Calling Code
+62
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
Indonesian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Padang cuisine — rendang above all — has spread to essentially every Indonesian town, served from restaurants that stack dishes in the window and charge only for what you eat. Rendang has topped international readers' polls of the world's best foods.
The clock: Padang keeps UTC+7 and sits just south of the equator, where sunrise and sunset barely move all year.
Padang lies at 100.4°E. Its time zone, UTC+7, is built around the 105°E meridian. The 4.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 19 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:19 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+7 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 12h 11m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 12h 4m. The swing between them is 7 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 Padang the sun comes up earliest on 4 November at 05:58, while the latest sunset waits until 12 February at 18:37. 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 Padang 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 Padang, Indonesia is Asia/Jakarta with a current UTC offset of UTC+7.
Padang has an estimated population of 910K and is located at coordinates 0.95°S, 100.35°E.
Padang gets 12h 11m of daylight on its longest day and 12h 4m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Padang falls at about 12:19 on UTC+7 standard time, because the city sits 4.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Food That Travelled: Padang cuisine — rendang above all — has spread to essentially every Indonesian town, served from restaurants that stack dishes in the window and charge only for what you eat.