EZYCLOCK

Time in Singapore

The current local time in Singapore, Singapore — updating live, with the difference from your own clock.

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Singapore time explained

Singapore is eight hours ahead of UTC all year, with no daylight saving. Geographically it sits closer to a seven-hour offset, but it shifted to align with Malaysia and Hong Kong in 1982, trading solar accuracy for commercial convenience — which is why the sun there sets remarkably late for a city almost on the equator.

Singapore does not observe daylight saving. Its offset from UTC is the same all year round, which makes scheduling with it noticeably simpler.

Reaching Singapore

A Singapore morning overlaps Sydney and Tokyo; the late afternoon reaches Europe as it opens. The Americas are the difficult direction, requiring either a very early start or a late evening.

How this page works

The time above is calculated on your own device from the IANA time zone database that ships with your browser, using the zone Asia/Singapore. Nothing is fetched from a server, and the offset shown is whatever is currently in force rather than a number typed into the page — so when a country changes its rules, this page changes with it.

The difference from your own clock is worked out the same way, comparing Singapore's current offset against your device's. If your computer's clock is wrong, so is that comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Why does the sun set so late in Singapore?

Because the clock is roughly an hour ahead of local solar time. The country moved to the +8 zone in 1982 to match its trading partners, so a 19:00 sunset near the equator is a clock decision rather than an astronomical one.

Does Singapore observe daylight saving?

No. Being on the equator, day length barely varies across the year, so there would be nothing to gain.

Does Singapore change its clocks?

No. Singapore keeps one offset all year, so the difference to anywhere that does change its clocks will shift by an hour twice a year — from their end, not this one.