What time is it in Macao?
1:52:53 AM
Friday, September 25, 2026 in Macau. Macao keeps one time zone nationwide, UTC+8:00.
- UTC offset
- UTC+8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not observed
- Time zones
- One nationwide
- Versus New York
- 12 hours ahead
Macao does not change its clocks
Macao stays on UTC+8:00 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 8 hours ahead UTC, and 12 hours ahead New York.
Working with Macao from the US
Macau is 12 hours ahead New York and 15 hours ahead Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 9:00 pm in Macau.
To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.
The sun in Macau today
- Sunrise
- 6:15 am
- Sunset
- 6:19 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 4 minutes
- Solar noon
- 12:17 pm
The day is 12 hours 4 minutes long in Macau, and losing 1 minute a day. The sun peaks at 12:17 pm, 17 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Macau sits 26 minutes of solar time west of UTC+8:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.
Macau lies inside the tropics, so the sun passes directly overhead at noon twice a year — around June 2 and July 10 in 2026, when a vertical object casts almost no shadow. Nowhere outside the tropics ever sees that. The longest day is 13 hours 30 minutes and the shortest 10 hours 46 minutes, 163 minutes apart.
Macao has kept UTC+8:00 since Sunday, October 21, 1979, when it moved from UTC+9:00. Before that its clocks read 1 hour ahead what they read now.
Other countries
On UTC+8:00 right now, the same clock as Macao: