What time is it in Philippines?

Philippines 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 of UTC, and 13 hours ahead of New York.

Manila is 13 hours ahead of New York and 16 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 10:00 pm in Manila.

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 29 minutes long in Manila, and losing 1 minute a day. The sun peaks at 11:40 am, 20 minutes before noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Manila sits 4 minutes of solar time east 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.

Manila lies inside the tropics, so the sun passes directly overhead at noon twice a year — around April 29 and August 13 in 2026, when a vertical object casts almost no shadow. Nowhere outside the tropics ever sees that. The longest day is 12 hours 59 minutes and the shortest 11 hours 16 minutes, 104 minutes apart.

Philippines has kept UTC+8:00 since Saturday, July 28, 1990, when it moved from UTC+9:00. Before that its clocks read 1 hour ahead of what they read now.

On UTC+8:00 right now, the same clock as Philippines: