What time is it in Timor-Leste?

Timor-Leste stays on UTC+9:00 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 9 hours ahead of UTC, and 14 hours ahead of New York.

Dili is 14 hours ahead of New York and 17 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 11:00 pm in Dili.

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 12 hours 29 minutes long in Dili, and holding steady — within a minute of yesterday’s. The sun peaks at 12:21 pm, 21 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Dili sits 38 minutes of solar time west of UTC+9:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

Dili lies inside the tropics, so the sun passes directly overhead at noon twice a year — around February 27 and October 15 in 2026, when a vertical object casts almost no shadow. Nowhere outside the tropics ever sees that. The longest day is 12 hours 37 minutes and the shortest 11 hours 37 minutes, 60 minutes apart.

Timor-Leste has kept UTC+9:00 since Sunday, September 17, 2000, when it moved from UTC+8:00. Before that its clocks read 1 hour behind what they read now.

On UTC+9:00 right now, the same clock as Timor-Leste: