| 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 |
Vientiane, 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 Vientiane 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 Vientiane 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 Vientiane lines up with 09:00–12:00 in London. The time difference between Vientiane 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 Vientiane 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 Vientiane.
Vientiane (Laos) is home to roughly 950K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:59, sunset at 17:59. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+7 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 18° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Capital
Vientiane 👑
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+7 · Asia/Vientiane
Coordinates
17.97°N, 102.63°E
Currency
LAK (₭)
Calling Code
+856
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Lao
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Patuxai was built in the 1960s using concrete donated by the United States for an airport runway. Laos built a victory arch instead. A plaque inside describes it, with some accuracy, as a monster of concrete.
The clock: Vientiane keeps UTC+7 and is one of the capitals closest to a national border — Thailand is a few hundred metres across the Mekong.
Vientiane lies at 102.6°E. Its time zone, UTC+7, is built around the 105°E meridian. The 2.4° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 9 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:09 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 12m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 3m. The swing between them is 2h 9m. 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 Vientiane the sun comes up earliest on 6 June at 05:33, while the latest sunset waits until 8 July at 18:49. 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 Vientiane 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 Vientiane, Laos is Asia/Vientiane with a current UTC offset of UTC+7.
Vientiane has an estimated population of 950K and is located at coordinates 17.97°N, 102.63°E. It is the capital city of Laos.
Vientiane gets 13h 12m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 3m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Vientiane falls at about 12:09 on UTC+7 standard time, because the city sits 2.4° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Monument Built From Runway Cement: Patuxai was built in the 1960s using concrete donated by the United States for an airport runway. Laos built a victory arch instead. A plaque inside describes it, with some accuracy, as a monster of concrete.