What time is it in Laos?

Laos stays on UTC+7:00 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 7 hours ahead of UTC, and 12 hours ahead of New York.

Vientiane is 12 hours ahead of New York and 15 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 9:00 pm in Vientiane.

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 11 hours 19 minutes long in Vientiane, and losing 1 minute a day. The sun peaks within a few minutes of twelve o’clock, so Laos’s offset fits its longitude about as closely as a whole-hour offset can.

Vientiane lies inside the tropics, so the sun passes directly overhead at noon twice a year — around May 11 and August 1 in 2026, when a vertical object casts almost no shadow. Nowhere outside the tropics ever sees that. The longest day is 13 hours 12 minutes and the shortest 11 hours 3 minutes, 129 minutes apart.

Laos’s offset has not moved once since 1970 — no daylight saving, and no change of zone.

On UTC+7:00 right now, the same clock as Laos: