It is 6:46 pm in Asia/Manila

Asia/Manila is the IANA identifier for the time zone of Manila in the Philippines. It is running at UTC+8 right now, abbreviated PHT, and the local date is Friday, September 25, 2026. The zone never moves its clocks.

What time is it in Asia/Manila right now

6:46 pm on Friday, September 25, 2026, as this page was served, which in 24 hour form is 18:46. The clock above ticks on from there in your own browser. The offset is a whole 8 hours ahead of UTC, so a UTC timestamp converts here by changing the hour and leaving the minutes exactly as they are.

14 other zones read UTC+8 at this instant. They are interchangeable as a clock reading today and not as an identifier: storing UTC+8 instead of Asia/Manila throws away the rule that decides what they all do at the next transition.

The UTC offset of Asia/Manila

An offset of UTC+8 names the meridian 120.0 degrees east, and Manila, Philippines sits at 120.98 degrees east. Those are within 4 minutes of solar time of each other, so this is one of the zones whose clock genuinely matches its own sun.

Because this zone never moves its clocks, UTC+8 is the answer on every day of the year. That makes it an easy zone to schedule against, with the caveat that the other end of the call may still be moving its own clocks, so the gap between the two changes even though nothing changed here.

Daylight saving in Asia/Manila

Asia/Manila does not observe daylight saving. It sits at UTC+8 in January and reads UTC+8 again in July, so a gap worked out against it today is still right in six months. It did move them once: the sampling below shows a summer offset as late as 1978, and the practice has since been dropped.

The database holds no clock change for Asia/Manila in 2025, 2026 or 2027, so there is no transition table to print. The offset shown at the top of this page is the offset on every date in those three years.

How the offset of Asia/Manila has changed since 1970

Read on 1 January and 1 July of each year, which is the cheapest pair of samples that shows both the winter offset and whether the clocks moved that summer. The zone has passed through 3 distinct eras in that time and has used 2 different offsets: UTC+8, UTC+9. Its current behaviour has held since 1979. A rule change that began and ended between July and the following January is invisible to this sampling, so the table is a shape rather than a complete edit history.

The last summer in which Asia/Manila read a different offset from its own January was 1978. Software that still carries a hand-written summer rule for this zone has been wrong every year since.

Countries and regions that use Asia/Manila

One country uses Asia/Manila: the Philippines, which keeps this as its only time zone and has a population of about 117,340,000.

Cities in the Asia/Manila time zone

The 149 cities this site covers inside Asia/Manila, each with a live clock and today's sunrise and sunset worked out from its own coordinate. They share an identifier, so they share a clock reading to the minute, and they do not share a sunrise: that is set by latitude and longitude.

The sun against the clock in Asia/Manila

Worked out for Manila, Philippines, the city this site covers inside the zone, at 14.60 degrees north, 120.98 degrees east. The sun rises at 5:45 am and sets at 5:50 pm, giving 12 hours 5 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the moment the sun is highest, falls at 11:48 am, which is 12 minutes before clock noon.

That gap is the whole argument about where zone lines belong, in one number. It is made of three things: Manila, Philippines sitting 1.0 degrees east of the UTC+8 meridian, the equation of time, which today runs 8.2 minutes ahead of mean time, and no daylight saving at all, because this zone does not use it. Full sunrise and sunset times for Manila.

Convert Asia/Manila to another time zone

Asia/Manila is one of the zones the converter publishes under its own name, as PHT, so these pages convert it directly rather than by matching an offset.

Questions about Asia/Manila

What time is it in Asia/Manila right now?

6:46 pm on Friday, September 25, 2026, as this page was served. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.

What is the UTC offset of Asia/Manila?

UTC+8 at this instant, on every day of the year.

Does Asia/Manila observe daylight saving time?

No. It stays at UTC+8 all year, and has done since 1979.

What is the abbreviation for Asia/Manila?

PHT at this instant. It does not change, because the offset does not.

Which countries use Asia/Manila?

Philippines.

Why store Asia/Manila instead of UTC+8?

Because the offset is an output and the identifier is the input. This zone has one offset today and no guarantee of keeping it, and 14 other zones share its current reading while carrying different rules. A record storing UTC+8 cannot tell them apart; a record storing Asia/Manila keeps working through every future rule change.

Other time zones in Asia

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