Current time in Banda Aceh, Indonesia right now

It is 3:37 am in Banda Aceh, Indonesia 🇮🇩 right now, on Monday, September 28, 2026. The city keeps Asia/Jakarta, which is WIB at UTC+7, so Banda Aceh is 7 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 8:37 pm. The sun rose in Banda Aceh at 6:27 am and sets at 6:32 pm, which is 12 hours 5 minutes of daylight.

What time is it in Banda Aceh right now?

The time in Banda Aceh, Indonesia is 3:37 am, 03:37 on a 24 hour clock, on Monday September 28, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Asia/Jakarta rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.

Banda Aceh sits at 5.54 degrees north and 95.33 degrees east, within eight degrees of the equator and 616 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 105.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 9.7 degrees west of that line. Those 9.7 degrees are worth 38 minutes 40 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:29 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.

Banda Aceh time zone and UTC offset

The IANA zone for Banda Aceh, Indonesia is Asia/Jakarta. Right now it is running at UTC+7 and the abbreviation in force is WIB. Banda Aceh does not change its clocks at any point in the year. The offset stays at UTC+7 in January and in July alike, so no conversion involving Banda Aceh ever needs a seasonal footnote.

Daylight hours in Banda Aceh today

The sun rose in Banda Aceh at 6:27 am and sets at 6:32 pm, which is 12 hours 5 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Banda Aceh, is at 12:29 pm, which is 29 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -2.03 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 82.4 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.

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 Banda Aceh, which works from the same coordinates.

Where Banda Aceh 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 Banda Aceh 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 Banda Aceh.

Best time to call Banda Aceh

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 Banda Aceh, with the time on their clocks right now.

Cities on Asia/Jakarta time

128 of our cities keep Asia/Jakarta, so every one of them reads 3:37 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Banda Aceh. Nearest first:

Moon phase over Banda Aceh tonight

The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 16.7 days into its cycle and about 96% lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 at 11:11 am Jakarta time, and the next new moon on October 10, 2026 at 10:49 pm. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Banda Aceh clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.

When the clocks change in Banda Aceh

There is no clock change scheduled in Asia/Jakarta within the next 400 days, so Banda Aceh stays at UTC+7 for the whole of that stretch.

That makes Banda Aceh 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 Banda Aceh is from other cities

Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Banda Aceh is Lhokseumawe, Indonesia at 205 km, and the furthest is San Martin, Peru at 19,571 km, which is 98% of the way to being exactly opposite.

The antipode of Banda Aceh

Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Banda Aceh, Indonesia and you come out at 5.54 degrees south, 84.67 degrees west. That point is near San Martin, Peru. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is San Martin, Peru, 444 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 3:37 pm on Sunday.

The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 5.54 degrees north becomes 5.54 degrees south, and 95.33 degrees east becomes 84.67 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Banda Aceh is one of the exceptions, with dry land on the far side. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-5, roughly twelve hours from Banda Aceh, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.

Sunrise and sunset in Banda Aceh

Today the sun rises in Banda Aceh at 6:27 am and sets at 6:32 pm, giving 12 hours 5 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 Banda Aceh.

Sun and moon in Banda Aceh today

The sun is up in Banda Aceh for 12 hours 5 minutes today, from 6:27 am to 6:32 pm. The moon sets in Banda Aceh at 7:30 am and comes up again at 7:45 pm. The next phase is the last quarter on October 3, 2026. It is 97% lit at the moment, a waning gibbous, thinning by about 3.6 percentage points a day.

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 Banda Aceh

Seven days from September 28, 2026, computed for Banda Aceh, Indonesia at 5.54 degrees north, 95.33 degrees east, on the clock of Asia/Jakarta. 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 Banda Aceh, 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 Banda Aceh

From Banda Aceh, Indonesia the qibla is 292.2 degrees on a true compass, which is west-northwest, or 22.2 degrees south of due west. The Kaaba is 6,221 km away, 3,865 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Banda Aceh, 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 Banda Aceh, 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.

Banda Aceh time now: common questions

What time is it in Banda Aceh, Indonesia right now?

3:37 am on Monday September 28, 2026. Banda Aceh runs on WIB, UTC+7.

What time zone is Banda Aceh in?

Asia/Jakarta, currently WIB at UTC+7. 128 of the cities on this site keep that zone.

What is the UTC offset for Banda Aceh?

UTC+7 at this instant. It is UTC+7 all year round, with no seasonal change.

Does Banda Aceh observe daylight saving time?

No. Banda Aceh stays on UTC+7 for the whole year.

How many hours ahead or behind is Banda Aceh of New York?

Banda Aceh is 11 hours ahead of New York, where it is 4:37 pm right now.

What time does the sun set in Banda Aceh today?

6:32 pm, after a sunrise at 6:27 am and 12 hours 5 minutes of daylight.

What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Banda Aceh?

5.54 degrees south, 84.67 degrees west, near San Martin, Peru.

When is the best time to call Banda Aceh from London?

Between 3:00 pm and 6:00 pm in Banda Aceh, which is 9:00 am to 12:00 pm in London.

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