Current time in Sam Son, Vietnam right now
It is 8:14 pm in Sam Son, Vietnam 🇻🇳 right now, on Saturday, September 26, 2026. The city keeps Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, which is UTC+7 at UTC+7, so Sam Son is 7 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 1:14 pm. The sun rose in Sam Son at 5:46 am and sets at 5:49 pm, which is 12 hours 3 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Sam Son right now?
The time in Sam Son, Vietnam is 8:14 pm, 20:14 on a 24 hour clock, on Saturday September 26, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Sam Son sits at 19.73 degrees north and 105.90 degrees east, inside the tropics, north of the equator and 2,194 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 105.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 0.9 degrees east of that line. Those 0.9 degrees are worth 3 minutes 36 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 11:48 am rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Sam Son time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Sam Son, Vietnam is Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh. Right now it is running at UTC+7 and the abbreviation in force is UTC+7. Sam Son 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 Sam Son ever needs a seasonal footnote.
Daylight hours in Sam Son today
The sun rose in Sam Son at 5:46 am and sets at 5:49 pm, which is 12 hours 3 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Sam Son, is at 11:48 am, which is 12 minutes before clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.24 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 69.0 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Sam Son |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 5:46 am |
| Sunset | 5:49 pm |
| Solar noon | 11:48 am |
| Day length | 12 hours 3 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 5:20 pm to 6:03 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 6:11 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 Sam Son, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Sam Son 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 Sam Son. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Sam Son on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Sam Son 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 Sam Son.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Sam Son |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 6:14 am | -14 | 14 hours behind of Sam Son |
| Chicago, Illinois | 8:14 am | -12 | 12 hours behind of Sam Son |
| New York, New York | 9:14 am | -11 | 11 hours behind of Sam Son |
| Toronto, Canada | 9:14 am | -11 | 11 hours behind of Sam Son |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 10:14 am | -10 | 10 hours behind of Sam Son |
| London, United Kingdom | 2:14 pm | -6 | 6 hours behind of Sam Son |
| Paris, France | 3:14 pm | -5 | 5 hours behind of Sam Son |
| Berlin, Germany | 3:14 pm | -5 | 5 hours behind of Sam Son |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 3:14 pm | -5 | 5 hours behind of Sam Son |
| Moscow, Russia | 4:14 pm | -4 | 4 hours behind of Sam Son |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 5:14 pm | -3 | 3 hours behind of Sam Son |
| Delhi, India | 6:44 pm | -1:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes behind of Sam Son |
| Singapore, Singapore | 9:14 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Sam Son |
| Hong Kong, China | 9:14 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Sam Son |
| Tokyo, Japan | 10:14 pm | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Sam Son |
| Sydney, Australia | 11:14 pm | +3 | 3 hours ahead of Sam Son |
Best time to call Sam Son
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 Sam Son | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | -11 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| Los Angeles | -14 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| London | -6 | 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 12:00 pm |
| Delhi | -1:30 | 10:30 am to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 4:30 pm |
| Sydney | +3 | 9:00 am to 3:00 pm | 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
Other cities in Vietnam
We cover 142 cities in Vietnam. These are the ones nearest to Sam Son, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thanh Hoa | Thanh Hoa Province | 8:14 pm | UTC+7 |
| Nghi Son | Thanh Hoa Province | 8:14 pm | UTC+7 |
| Hoang Mai | Nghe An Province | 8:14 pm | UTC+7 |
| Hoa Lu | Ninh Binh | 8:14 pm | UTC+7 |
| Nam GJinh | Ninh Binh | 8:14 pm | UTC+7 |
| Phu Ly | Ninh Binh | 8:14 pm | UTC+7 |
| Hung Yen | Hung Yen Province | 8:14 pm | UTC+7 |
| Vinh | Nghe An Province | 8:14 pm | UTC+7 |
| Yen Vinh | Nghe An Province | 8:14 pm | UTC+7 |
| My Hao | Hung Yen Province | 8:14 pm | UTC+7 |
| Hoa Binh | Phu Tho | 8:14 pm | UTC+7 |
| Tuong Mai | Hanoi | 8:14 pm | UTC+7 |
| Thanh Xuan | Hanoi | 8:14 pm | UTC+7 |
| Kien An | Hai Phong | 8:14 pm | UTC+7 |
| Hai Duong | Hai Phong | 8:14 pm | UTC+7 |
| Hai Ba Trung | Hanoi | 8:14 pm | UTC+7 |
Cities on Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh time
90 of our cities keep Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, so every one of them reads 8:14 pm at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Sam Son. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Sam Son |
|---|---|---|
| Hanoi, Vietnam | 8:14 pm | 144 km |
| Bac Tu Liem, Vietnam | 8:14 pm | 149 km |
| Chi Linh, Vietnam | 8:14 pm | 154 km |
| Viet Yen, Vietnam | 8:14 pm | 172 km |
| Thanh pho Song Cong, Vietnam | 8:14 pm | 194 km |
| Cam Pha Mines, Vietnam | 8:14 pm | 204 km |
| Thi Tran GJai Tu, Vietnam | 8:14 pm | 213 km |
| Thi Tran Thuan Chau, Vietnam | 8:14 pm | 298 km |
| Bac Quang, Vietnam | 8:14 pm | 324 km |
| Thanh Khe, Vietnam | 8:14 pm | 474 km |
| Da Nang, Vietnam | 8:14 pm | 476 km |
| Hoa Cuong, Vietnam | 8:14 pm | 476 km |
| Hai Chau, Vietnam | 8:14 pm | 486 km |
| GJien Ban, Vietnam | 8:14 pm | 495 km |
| Tam Ky, Vietnam | 8:14 pm | 537 km |
| Quang Ngai, Vietnam | 8:14 pm | 598 km |
Moon phase over Sam Son tonight
The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 15.4 days into its cycle and about 100% lit. The next full moon falls on September 26, 2026 at 11:48 pm Ho Chi Minh 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 Sam Son clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Sam Son
There is no clock change scheduled in Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh within the next 400 days, so Sam Son stays at UTC+7 for the whole of that stretch.
That makes Sam Son 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 Sam Son is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Sam Son is Thanh Hoa, Vietnam at 16 km, and the furthest is Iquique, Chile at 19,599 km, which is 98% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thanh Hoa, Vietnam | 16 | 10 | north west | 8:14 pm |
| Nghi Son, Vietnam | 46 | 29 | south | 8:14 pm |
| Hoang Mai, Vietnam | 55 | 34 | south | 8:14 pm |
| Hoa Lu, Vietnam | 59 | 37 | north | 8:14 pm |
| Nam GJinh, Vietnam | 83 | 52 | north | 8:14 pm |
| Phu Ly, Vietnam | 90 | 56 | north | 8:14 pm |
| Hung Yen, Vietnam | 103 | 64 | north | 8:14 pm |
| Vinh, Vietnam | 120 | 74 | south | 8:14 pm |
| Yen Vinh, Vietnam | 121 | 75 | south | 8:14 pm |
| My Hao, Vietnam | 133 | 83 | north | 8:14 pm |
The antipode of Sam Son
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Sam Son, Vietnam and you come out at 19.73 degrees south, 74.10 degrees west. That point is near Iquique, Chile. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Iquique, Chile, 416 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 10:14 am on Saturday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 19.73 degrees north becomes 19.73 degrees south, and 105.90 degrees east becomes 74.10 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Sam Son 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 Sam Son, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Sam Son
Today the sun rises in Sam Son at 5:46 am and sets at 5:49 pm, giving 12 hours 3 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 Sam Son.
Sun and moon in Sam Son today
The sun is up in Sam Son for 12 hours 3 minutes today, from 5:46 am to 5:49 pm. The moon sets in Sam Son at 5:07 am and comes up again at 5:28 pm. The next phase is the full moon on September 26, 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 Sam Son |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 4:33 am |
| Nautical dawn | 4:59 am |
| Civil dawn | 5:24 am |
| Sunrise | 5:46 am |
| Solar noon | 11:48 am |
| Sunset | 5:49 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:11 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 6:37 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:02 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 Sam Son | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 5:24 am to 5:33 am | 0h 09m |
| Morning golden hour | 5:33 am to 6:15 am | 0h 43m |
| Evening golden hour | 5:20 pm to 6:03 pm | 0h 42m |
| Evening blue hour | 6:03 pm to 6:11 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 Sam Son |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 5:28 pm |
| Moonset | 5:07 am |
| Phase | full moon, waxing |
| Illumination | 100% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 15.1 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 381,400 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: Sam Son and four other places
Every hour of Saturday, September 26, 2026 in Sam Son, Vietnam, read across 4 other places. Columns are Sam Son 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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| Sam Son 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam SonUTC+7 UTC+7 | 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 | 10-1 | 11-1 | 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 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 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 | 12 |
| LondonBST UTC+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 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 22:30-1 | 23:30-1 | 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 |
No hour on Saturday, September 26, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Sam Son and Los Angeles are 14 hours apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 3:00 pm in Sam Son it is working hours in Sam Son, 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 Sam Son
Seven days from September 26, 2026, computed for Sam Son, Vietnam at 19.73 degrees north, 105.90 degrees east, on the clock of Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday September 26 | 4:33 am | 5:46 am | 11:48 am | 3:11 pm | 5:49 pm | 6:58 pm |
| Sunday September 27 | 4:33 am | 5:46 am | 11:48 am | 3:11 pm | 5:48 pm | 6:57 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 4:33 am | 5:46 am | 11:47 am | 3:11 pm | 5:48 pm | 6:56 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 4:34 am | 5:47 am | 11:47 am | 3:10 pm | 5:47 pm | 6:55 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 4:34 am | 5:47 am | 11:46 am | 3:10 pm | 5:46 pm | 6:54 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 4:34 am | 5:47 am | 11:46 am | 3:09 pm | 5:45 pm | 6:54 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 4:34 am | 5:47 am | 11:46 am | 3:09 pm | 5:44 pm | 6:53 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Sam Son, Vietnam, 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 Sam Son
From Sam Son, Vietnam the qibla is 284.3 degrees on a true compass, which is west-northwest, or 14.3 degrees south of due west. The Kaaba is 6,827 km away, 4,242 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Sam Son, Vietnam 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 Sam Son, Vietnam 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 Sam Son clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Sam Son, Vietnam, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh from the time zone database, so it stays right when Sam Son changes its clocks, and it shows UTC+7 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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Sam Son time now: common questions
- What time is it in Sam Son, Vietnam right now?
- 8:14 pm on Saturday September 26, 2026. Sam Son runs on UTC+7, UTC+7.
- What time zone is Sam Son in?
- Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, currently UTC+7 at UTC+7. 90 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Sam Son?
- UTC+7 at this instant. It is UTC+7 all year round, with no seasonal change.
- Does Sam Son observe daylight saving time?
- No. Sam Son stays on UTC+7 for the whole year.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Sam Son of New York?
- Sam Son is 11 hours ahead of New York, where it is 9:14 am right now.
- What time does the sun set in Sam Son today?
- 5:49 pm, after a sunrise at 5:46 am and 12 hours 3 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Sam Son?
- 19.73 degrees south, 74.10 degrees west, near Iquique, Chile.
- When is the best time to call Sam Son from London?
- Between 3:00 pm and 6:00 pm in Sam Son, which is 9:00 am to 12:00 pm in London.
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