What time is it in Bhutan?

Bhutan stays on UTC+6:00 all year. Its offset from UTC never moves, so its relationship to places that do change shifts twice a year instead — which is usually why someone checks. Right now it is 6 hours ahead of UTC, and 11 hours ahead of New York.

Thimphu is 11 hours ahead of New York and 14 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 8:00 pm in Thimphu.

To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.

The day is 10 hours 50 minutes long in Thimphu, and losing 1 minute a day. The sun peaks at 11:45 am, 15 minutes before noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Thimphu sits 1 minutes of solar time west of UTC+6:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

The solar year swings 3 hours 28 minutes in Thimphu: 13 hours 53 minutes of daylight at the June solstice against 10 hours 24 minutes at the December one. Being north of the equator, its longest day falls in June — the opposite way round from the other hemisphere.

Bhutan has kept UTC+6:00 since Thursday, October 1, 1987, when it moved from UTC+5:30. Before that its clocks read 30 minutes behind what they read now.

On UTC+6:00 right now, the same clock as Bhutan: