Current time in Ambon, Indonesia right now

It is 2:20 pm in Ambon, Indonesia 🇮🇩 right now, on Sunday, September 27, 2026. The city keeps Asia/Jayapura, which is WIT at UTC+9, so Ambon is 9 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 5:20 am. The sun rose in Ambon at 6:15 am and sets at 6:22 pm, which is 12 hours 7 minutes of daylight.

What time is it in Ambon right now?

The time in Ambon, Indonesia is 2:20 pm, 14:20 on a 24 hour clock, on Sunday September 27, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Asia/Jayapura rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.

Ambon sits at 3.70 degrees south and 128.18 degrees east, within eight degrees of the equator and 411 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 135.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 6.8 degrees west of that line. Those 6.8 degrees are worth 27 minutes 16 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:18 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.

Ambon time zone and UTC offset

The IANA zone for Ambon, Indonesia is Asia/Jayapura. Right now it is running at UTC+9 and the abbreviation in force is WIT. Ambon does not change its clocks at any point in the year. The offset stays at UTC+9 in January and in July alike, so no conversion involving Ambon ever needs a seasonal footnote.

Daylight hours in Ambon today

The sun rose in Ambon at 6:15 am and sets at 6:22 pm, which is 12 hours 7 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Ambon, is at 12:18 pm, which is 18 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.61 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 87.9 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the north.

The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Ambon, which works from the same coordinates.

Where Ambon is on the map

The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.

Time difference between Ambon and major cities

Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Ambon.

Best time to call Ambon

Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.

Other cities in Indonesia

We cover 170 cities in Indonesia. These are the ones nearest to Ambon, with the time on their clocks right now.

Cities on Asia/Jayapura time

7 of our cities keep Asia/Jayapura, so every one of them reads 2:20 pm at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Ambon. Nearest first:

Moon phase over Ambon tonight

The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 16.1 days into its cycle and about 98% lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 at 1:11 pm Jayapura time, and the next new moon on October 11, 2026 at 12:49 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Ambon clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.

When the clocks change in Ambon

There is no clock change scheduled in Asia/Jayapura within the next 400 days, so Ambon stays at UTC+9 for the whole of that stretch.

That makes Ambon an easy city to schedule against: a meeting fixed at a given hour here holds its relationship to UTC all year, and only the other end of the call can move.

How far Ambon is from other cities

Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Ambon is Sorong, Indonesia at 464 km, and the furthest is Macapa, Brazil at 19,600 km, which is 98% of the way to being exactly opposite.

The antipode of Ambon

Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Ambon, Indonesia and you come out at 3.70 degrees north, 51.82 degrees west. That point is near Macapa, Brazil. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Macapa, Brazil, 415 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 2:20 am on Sunday.

The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 3.70 degrees south becomes 3.70 degrees north, and 128.18 degrees east becomes 51.82 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Ambon is one of the exceptions, with dry land on the far side. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-3, roughly twelve hours from Ambon, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.

Sunrise and sunset in Ambon

Today the sun rises in Ambon at 6:15 am and sets at 6:22 pm, giving 12 hours 7 minutes of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Ambon.

Sun and moon in Ambon today

The sun is up in Ambon for 12 hours 7 minutes today, from 6:15 am to 6:22 pm. The moon sets in Ambon at 6:20 am and comes up again at 6:48 pm. The next phase is the last quarter on October 3, 2026. The moon is full, or as near to it as makes no difference, and the whole of the face turned towards us is lit.

Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.

Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.

Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.

Prayer times in Ambon

Seven days from September 27, 2026, computed for Ambon, Indonesia at 3.70 degrees south, 128.18 degrees east, on the clock of Asia/Jayapura. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.

Dhuhr is solar noon at Ambon, Indonesia, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.

Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.

Qibla direction from Ambon

From Ambon, Indonesia the qibla is 291.5 degrees on a true compass, which is west-northwest, or 21.5 degrees south of due west. The Kaaba is 9,988 km away, 6,206 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Ambon, Indonesia to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.

The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Ambon, Indonesia before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.

Ambon time now: common questions

What time is it in Ambon, Indonesia right now?

2:20 pm on Sunday September 27, 2026. Ambon runs on WIT, UTC+9.

What time zone is Ambon in?

Asia/Jayapura, currently WIT at UTC+9. 7 of the cities on this site keep that zone.

What is the UTC offset for Ambon?

UTC+9 at this instant. It is UTC+9 all year round, with no seasonal change.

Does Ambon observe daylight saving time?

No. Ambon stays on UTC+9 for the whole year.

How many hours ahead or behind is Ambon of New York?

Ambon is 13 hours ahead of New York, where it is 1:20 am right now.

What time does the sun set in Ambon today?

6:22 pm, after a sunrise at 6:15 am and 12 hours 7 minutes of daylight.

What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Ambon?

3.70 degrees north, 51.82 degrees west, near Macapa, Brazil.

When is the best time to call Ambon from London?

Between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm in Ambon, which is 9:00 am to 10:00 am in London.

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