Current time in Male, Maldives right now
It is 2:11 am in Male, Maldives 🇲🇻 right now, on Sunday, September 27, 2026. The city keeps Indian/Maldives, which is UTC+5 at UTC+5, so Male is 5 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 9:11 pm. The sun rose in Male at 5:54 am and sets at 6:00 pm, which is 12 hours 6 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Male right now?
The time in Male, Maldives is 2:11 am, 02:11 on a 24 hour clock, on Sunday September 27, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Indian/Maldives rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Male sits at 4.18 degrees north and 73.51 degrees east, within eight degrees of the equator and 464 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 75.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 1.5 degrees west of that line. Those 1.5 degrees are worth 5 minutes 58 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 11:57 am rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Male time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Male, Maldives is Indian/Maldives. Right now it is running at UTC+5 and the abbreviation in force is UTC+5. Male does not change its clocks at any point in the year. The offset stays at UTC+5 in January and in July alike, so no conversion involving Male ever needs a seasonal footnote.
Daylight hours in Male today
The sun rose in Male at 5:54 am and sets at 6:00 pm, which is 12 hours 6 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Male, is at 11:57 am, which is 3 minutes before clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.67 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 84.2 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Male |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 5:54 am |
| Sunset | 6:00 pm |
| Solar noon | 11:57 am |
| Day length | 12 hours 6 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 5:32 pm to 6:12 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 6:21 pm |
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 Male, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Male 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.
An interactive map of Male. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Male on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Male 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 Male.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Male |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 2:11 pm | -12 | 12 hours behind of Male |
| Chicago, Illinois | 4:11 pm | -10 | 10 hours behind of Male |
| New York, New York | 5:11 pm | -9 | 9 hours behind of Male |
| Toronto, Canada | 5:11 pm | -9 | 9 hours behind of Male |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 6:11 pm | -8 | 8 hours behind of Male |
| London, United Kingdom | 10:11 pm | -4 | 4 hours behind of Male |
| Paris, France | 11:11 pm | -3 | 3 hours behind of Male |
| Berlin, Germany | 11:11 pm | -3 | 3 hours behind of Male |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 11:11 pm | -3 | 3 hours behind of Male |
| Moscow, Russia | 12:11 am | -2 | 2 hours behind of Male |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 1:11 am | -1 | 1 hour behind of Male |
| Delhi, India | 2:41 am | +0:30 | 30 minutes ahead of Male |
| Singapore, Singapore | 5:11 am | +3 | 3 hours ahead of Male |
| Hong Kong, China | 5:11 am | +3 | 3 hours ahead of Male |
| Tokyo, Japan | 6:11 am | +4 | 4 hours ahead of Male |
| Sydney, Australia | 7:11 am | +5 | 5 hours ahead of Male |
Best time to call Male
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.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Male | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | -9 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| Los Angeles | -12 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| London | -4 | 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm |
| Delhi | +0:30 | 9:00 am to 5:30 pm | 9:30 am to 6:00 pm |
| Sydney | +5 | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
Other cities in Maldives
Male is the only city we cover in Maldives, so there is no second clock in the country to compare it against here. The full city index has its neighbours across the border.
Cities on Indian/Maldives time
Male is the only city in our catalogue on Indian/Maldives. Other cities may share its UTC+5 offset today without sharing its rules, which is the distinction that matters the moment a clock change comes round.
Moon phase over Male tonight
The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 15.7 days into its cycle and about 99% lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 at 9:11 am Maldives time, and the next new moon on October 10, 2026 at 8:49 pm. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Male clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Male
There is no clock change scheduled in Indian/Maldives within the next 400 days, so Male stays at UTC+5 for the whole of that stretch.
That makes Male 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 Male is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Male is Thiruvananthapuram, India at 612 km, and the furthest is Acapulco de Juarez, Mexico at 17,568 km, which is 88% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thiruvananthapuram, India | 612 | 380 | north east | 2:41 am |
| Nagercoil, India | 621 | 386 | north east | 2:41 am |
| Kollam, India | 624 | 388 | north east | 2:41 am |
| Alappuzha, India | 668 | 415 | north east | 2:41 am |
| Tirunelveli, India | 685 | 425 | north east | 2:41 am |
| Kochi, India | 709 | 441 | north east | 2:41 am |
| Kanayannur, India | 712 | 443 | north east | 2:41 am |
| Thoothukudi, India | 722 | 449 | north east | 2:41 am |
| Rajapalayam, India | 737 | 458 | north east | 2:41 am |
| Sivakasi, India | 754 | 468 | north east | 2:41 am |
The antipode of Male
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Male, Maldives and you come out at 4.18 degrees south, 106.49 degrees west. That point is in the South Pacific Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Acapulco de Juarez, Mexico, 2,447 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 3:11 pm on Saturday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 4.18 degrees north becomes 4.18 degrees south, and 73.51 degrees east becomes 106.49 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Male is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-7, roughly twelve hours from Male, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Male
Today the sun rises in Male at 5:54 am and sets at 6:00 pm, giving 12 hours 6 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 Male.
Weather in Male right now
27°C (81°F), light rain
| Conditions | Light rain |
|---|---|
| Wind | 21 km/h (13 mph) from the W, a moderate breeze |
| Humidity | 81% |
| Cloud cover | 98% |
| Pressure | 1014 hPa |
| Rain in the next hour | 0.2 mm |
Reading taken 6 hours ago, local time 8 PM in Male.
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Hourly forecast for Male
The next 21 hours, in Male local time. Temperatures are given in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
- 2 AM 28°C 83°F Light rain 16 km/h 0.1 mm
- 3 AM 28°C 82°F Light rain 15 km/h 0.2 mm
- 4 AM 28°C 83°F Cloudy 15 km/h
- 5 AM 28°C 82°F Cloudy 14 km/h
- 6 AM 28°C 82°F Partly cloudy 14 km/h
- 7 AM 28°C 82°F Light rain 12 km/h 0.1 mm
- 8 AM 28°C 82°F Partly cloudy 10 km/h
- 9 AM 28°C 82°F Partly cloudy 9 km/h
- 10 AM 28°C 83°F Partly cloudy 11 km/h
- 11 AM 29°C 83°F Partly cloudy 13 km/h
- 12 PM 29°C 84°F Partly cloudy 15 km/h
- 1 PM 29°C 84°F Partly cloudy 17 km/h
- 2 PM 29°C 84°F Partly cloudy 17 km/h
- 3 PM 29°C 84°F Partly cloudy 17 km/h
- 4 PM 29°C 84°F Partly cloudy 17 km/h
- 5 PM 29°C 84°F Partly cloudy 17 km/h
- 6 PM 29°C 85°F Partly cloudy 18 km/h
- 7 PM 29°C 85°F Partly cloudy 17 km/h
- 8 PM 29°C 85°F Partly cloudy 16 km/h
- 9 PM 29°C 85°F Partly cloudy 15 km/h
- 10 PM 29°C 85°F Partly cloudy 15 km/h
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
7-day forecast for Male
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 26 Sep | 28°C / 82°F | 27°C / 81°F | Light rain | 0.2 mm |
| Sun 27 Sep | 29°C / 85°F | 28°C / 82°F | Partly cloudy | 0.4 mm |
| Mon 28 Sep | 29°C / 84°F | 27°C / 80°F | Light rain showers | 6.1 mm |
| Tue 29 Sep | 29°C / 83°F | 27°C / 80°F | Light rain | 10.3 mm |
| Wed 30 Sep | 29°C / 84°F | 28°C / 82°F | Cloudy | 1.2 mm |
| Thu 1 Oct | 29°C / 85°F | 28°C / 82°F | Light rain showers | 2.7 mm |
| Fri 2 Oct | 29°C / 83°F | 27°C / 80°F | Fair | 5.0 mm |
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Sun and moon in Male today
The sun is up in Male for 12 hours 6 minutes today, from 5:54 am to 6:00 pm. The moon sets in Male at 6:09 am and comes up again at 6:29 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.
| Sun | Time in Male |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 4:45 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:09 am |
| Civil dawn | 5:34 am |
| Sunrise | 5:54 am |
| Solar noon | 11:57 am |
| Sunset | 6:00 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:21 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 6:45 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:09 pm |
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.
| Light band | Time in Male | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 5:34 am to 5:42 am | 0h 08m |
| Morning golden hour | 5:42 am to 6:22 am | 0h 40m |
| Evening golden hour | 5:32 pm to 6:12 pm | 0h 40m |
| Evening blue hour | 6:12 pm to 6:21 pm | 0h 08m |
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.
| Moon | Reading in Male |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:29 pm |
| Moonset | 6:09 am |
| Phase | waning gibbous, waning |
| Illumination | 99% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 16.1 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 377,200 km |
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.
Meeting planner: Male and four other places
Every hour of Sunday, September 27, 2026 in Male, Maldives, read across 4 other places. Columns are Male local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
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| Male local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MaleUTC+5 UTC+5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPDT UTC-7 | 12-1 | 13-1 | 14-1 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| LondonBST UTC+1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 0:30 | 1:30 | 2:30 | 3:30 | 4:30 | 5:30 | 6:30 | 7:30 | 8:30 | 9:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 | 21:30 | 22:30 | 23:30 |
No hour on Sunday, September 27, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Los Angeles and Delhi are 12 hours 30 minutes apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 1:00 pm in Male it is working hours in Male, London and Delhi, but outside them in Los Angeles and New York. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Male
Seven days from September 27, 2026, computed for Male, Maldives at 4.18 degrees north, 73.51 degrees east, on the clock of Indian/Maldives. 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.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday September 27 | 4:45 am | 5:54 am | 11:57 am | 3:07 pm | 6:00 pm | 7:05 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 4:45 am | 5:54 am | 11:57 am | 3:07 pm | 5:59 pm | 7:04 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 4:45 am | 5:54 am | 11:56 am | 3:07 pm | 5:59 pm | 7:04 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 4:45 am | 5:54 am | 11:56 am | 3:07 pm | 5:58 pm | 7:03 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 4:44 am | 5:53 am | 11:56 am | 3:08 pm | 5:58 pm | 7:03 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 4:44 am | 5:53 am | 11:55 am | 3:08 pm | 5:58 pm | 7:02 pm |
| Saturday October 3 | 4:44 am | 5:53 am | 11:55 am | 3:08 pm | 5:57 pm | 7:02 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Male, Maldives, 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 Male
From Male, Maldives the qibla is 300.8 degrees on a true compass, which is west-northwest, or 30.8 degrees south of due west. The Kaaba is 4,109 km away, 2,553 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Male, Maldives 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 Male, Maldives 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.
Put a Male clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Male, Maldives, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Indian/Maldives from the time zone database, so it stays right when Male changes its clocks, and it shows UTC+5 to every visitor wherever they are reading from. It is a plain iframe: no account, no script to install, nothing to pay.
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Male time now: common questions
- What time is it in Male, Maldives right now?
- 2:11 am on Sunday September 27, 2026. Male runs on UTC+5, UTC+5.
- What time zone is Male in?
- Indian/Maldives, currently UTC+5 at UTC+5. 1 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Male?
- UTC+5 at this instant. It is UTC+5 all year round, with no seasonal change.
- Does Male observe daylight saving time?
- No. Male stays on UTC+5 for the whole year.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Male of New York?
- Male is 9 hours ahead of New York, where it is 5:11 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Male today?
- 6:00 pm, after a sunrise at 5:54 am and 12 hours 6 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Male?
- 4.18 degrees south, 106.49 degrees west, in the South Pacific Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Male from London?
- Between 1:00 pm and 6:00 pm in Male, which is 9:00 am to 2:00 pm in London.
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