What time is it in Timor-Leste right now? 🇹🇱
It is 6:04 am in Dili right now, Sunday, September 27, 2026. Timor-Leste runs on UTC+9. Every reading on this page is computed from the IANA time zone database at the moment you loaded it, and the clocks above and below tick on from there.
Time in Timor-Leste now
Timor-Leste keeps a single time zone, Asia/Dili, so there is one answer to the question and it is the same in every town: 6:04 am. The offset is UTC+9, and it never moves.
The offset from UTC in Dili is UTC+9, which is 9 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Nine in the morning in Dili is 12:00 am UTC.
Timor-Leste time zone in full
Each row is a zone identifier from the IANA database, its reading at this instant, its offset from UTC and whether it is currently on standard or summer time. All of them agree today, which is the usual case for Timor-Leste.
| Time zone | Time now | UTC offset | Abbreviation | Daylight saving |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Asia/Dili | 6:04 am | UTC+9 | UTC+9 | never moves |
Does Timor-Leste have daylight saving time?
No part of Timor-Leste moves its clocks. The offset stays at UTC+9 through the whole year, which means a difference worked out today against Timor-Leste is still right in six months. Most of the world now works this way; the daylight saving habit is concentrated in Europe, North America and a short list of others.
A fixed offset makes Timor-Leste an easy place to schedule against, with one caveat: the country at the other end of the call may still be moving its clocks, so the gap can change even though nothing changed here. The windows further down this page are worked out at the current instant for exactly that reason.
Where Timor-Leste is on the map
The marker is on Dili, the point every sun reading and every call window on this page is worked out from.
An interactive map of Dili. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Dili on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Dili and major cities
Worked out at this instant rather than from a stored table, so daylight saving on either side is already in it.
| City | Time there now | Difference from Dili |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, CA | 2:04 pm | 16 hours behind Dili |
| Chicago, IL | 4:04 pm | 14 hours behind Dili |
| New York, NY | 5:04 pm | 13 hours behind Dili |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 6:04 pm | 12 hours behind Dili |
| London, United Kingdom | 10:04 pm | 8 hours behind Dili |
| Paris, France | 11:04 pm | 7 hours behind Dili |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 11:04 pm | 7 hours behind Dili |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 1:04 am | 5 hours behind Dili |
| Delhi, India | 2:34 am | 3 hours 30 minutes behind Dili |
| Singapore, Singapore | 5:04 am | 1 hour behind Dili |
| Tokyo, Japan | 6:04 am | the same time |
| Sydney, Australia | 7:04 am | 1 hour ahead of Dili |
Best time to call Timor-Leste
A nine to five working day in Dili against a nine to five day elsewhere. The overlap column is the stretch when both desks are open, given on each side's own clock.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Dili | Window there |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York the US East Coast | 13 hours ahead | no shared working hours | try either side of the working day |
| Los Angeles the US West Coast | 16 hours ahead | no shared working hours | try either side of the working day |
| London the United Kingdom | 8 hours ahead | no shared working hours | try either side of the working day |
| Mumbai India | 3 hours 30 minutes ahead | 12:30 pm to 5:00 pm | 9:00 am to 1:30 pm |
Daylight hours in Dili today
In Dili the sun rose at 6:25 am today and sets at 6:33 pm, giving 12 hours 9 minutes of daylight. The capital is gaining 28 seconds of daylight a day at the moment, and the sun stands highest at 12:29 pm.
Solar noon in Dili is 12:29 pm, which is 29 minutes after clock noon. That gap is the capital sitting at 125.56 degrees east while its clock is set to Asia/Dili, plus the equation of time, which today runs 8.9 minutes ahead of mean time.
Moon phase over Dili tonight
The moon is waning gibbous tonight, 15.7 days into the current lunation, with roughly 99 percent of the disc lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 as Timor-Leste reads the date, at 1:11 pm local. The moon phase page has the full cycle.
Current time in Timor-Leste cities
The 1 city this site covers inside Timor-Leste, alphabetically, each with its own ticking clock and its own sunrise page.
| City | Time now | Offset | Sunrise and sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dili | 6:04 am | UTC+9 | Dili sun times |
Every IANA time zone in Timor-Leste
These are the identifiers a computer uses. A program that stores Asia/Dili rather than UTC+9 keeps working through every future rule change, which is the whole reason the database is keyed this way.
Convert Timor-Leste time to another zone
The converter pages below take UTC+9 against the zones people most often measure it from. Each one carries a full conversion table rather than a single answer.
Information about Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste sits in Asia, carries the ISO country code TL and a population of about 1,360,000. Its capital Dili is at 8.56 degrees south, 125.56 degrees east, which is the coordinate every sunrise and solar noon on this page is computed from.
Upcoming dates in Timor-Leste
Read on Timor-Leste's own clock, so the day counts below start from September 27 and not from a UTC date. The list is the internationally observed calendar plus the dates common across Asia, along with this country's own clock changes and the next solstices and equinoxes. National days set by a country's own statute are not included, because this site carries no statute table and a guessed one would be worse than an honest gap.
| Date | Day | What falls on it | Days away |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 22, 2026 | Tuesday | December solstice, 5:50 am local astronomical | 86 |
| December 25, 2026 | Friday | Christmas Day observed widely | 89 |
| December 31, 2026 | Thursday | New Year's Eve observance | 95 |
| January 1, 2027 | Friday | New Year's Day observed almost everywhere | 96 |
| March 21, 2027 | Sunday | March equinox, 5:24 am local astronomical | 175 |
| May 1, 2027 | Saturday | International Workers' Day public holiday in most countries | 216 |
| June 21, 2027 | Monday | June solstice, 11:10 pm local astronomical | 267 |
| September 23, 2027 | Thursday | September equinox, 3:01 pm local astronomical | 361 |
| December 22, 2027 | Wednesday | December solstice, 11:42 am local astronomical | 451 |
| December 25, 2027 | Saturday | Christmas Day observed widely | 454 |
Sun and moon in Dili today
The sun is up in Dili for 12 hours 9 minutes today, from 6:25 am to 6:33 pm. The moon sets in Dili at 6:29 am and comes up again at 7:02 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 Dili |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:15 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:39 am |
| Civil dawn | 6:04 am |
| Sunrise | 6:25 am |
| Solar noon | 12:29 pm |
| Sunset | 6:33 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:54 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 7:18 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:43 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 Dili | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 6:04 am to 6:12 am | 0h 08m |
| Morning golden hour | 6:12 am to 6:52 am | 0h 40m |
| Evening golden hour | 6:06 pm to 6:46 pm | 0h 40m |
| Evening blue hour | 6:46 pm to 6:54 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 Dili |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 7:02 pm |
| Moonset | 6:29 am |
| Phase | waning gibbous, waning |
| Illumination | 100% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 16.0 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 377,800 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: Timor-Leste and four other places
Every hour of Sunday, September 27, 2026 in Timor-Leste, read across 4 other places. Columns are Timor-Leste 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.
Change the places or the date
| Timor-Leste 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Timor-LesteUTC+9 UTC+9 | 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 | 8-1 | 9-1 | 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 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 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 | 10 |
| LondonBST UTC+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 | 15 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 20:30-1 | 21:30-1 | 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 |
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. Timor-Leste and Los Angeles are 16 hours apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 2 of 5: from 12:00 am in Timor-Leste it is working hours in New York and London, but outside them in Timor-Leste, Los Angeles and Delhi. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Dili
Seven days from September 27, 2026, computed for Dili at 8.56 degrees south, 125.56 degrees east, on the clock of Asia/Dili. 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 | 5:15 am | 6:25 am | 12:29 pm | 3:41 pm | 6:33 pm | 7:39 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 5:15 am | 6:24 am | 12:29 pm | 3:40 pm | 6:33 pm | 7:39 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 5:14 am | 6:24 am | 12:28 pm | 3:39 pm | 6:33 pm | 7:39 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 5:13 am | 6:23 am | 12:28 pm | 3:38 pm | 6:33 pm | 7:38 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 5:13 am | 6:22 am | 12:28 pm | 3:38 pm | 6:33 pm | 7:38 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 5:12 am | 6:22 am | 12:27 pm | 3:37 pm | 6:33 pm | 7:38 pm |
| Saturday October 3 | 5:12 am | 6:21 am | 12:27 pm | 3:36 pm | 6:33 pm | 7:38 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Dili, 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 Dili
From Dili the qibla is 291.8 degrees on a true compass, which is west-northwest, or 21.8 degrees south of due west. The Kaaba is 9,918 km away, 6,162 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Dili 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 Dili 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.
Questions about the time in Timor-Leste
- What time is it in Timor-Leste right now?
- It is 6:04 am in Dili as this page was served, Sunday, September 27, 2026. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.
- What time zone is Timor-Leste in?
- Timor-Leste uses Asia/Dili, currently UTC+9 at UTC+9.
- What is the UTC offset in Timor-Leste?
- UTC+9 in Dili at this instant.
- Does Timor-Leste observe daylight saving time?
- No. Timor-Leste stays on UTC+9 all year and does not move its clocks.
- What time does the sun set in Dili today?
- 6:33 pm, after a sunrise at 6:25 am and 12 hours 9 minutes of daylight.
- When is the best time to call Timor-Leste from the United States?
- The working days do not overlap: Dili is 13 hours ahead of New York, so one side has to take the call outside office hours.
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