What timezone is Dili in?

Dili uses the IANA timezone Asia/Dili. The UTC offset is always UTC+9 - this timezone does not observe daylight saving time.

Does Dili observe daylight saving time?

No. Dili does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC+9 all year round.

What is the time difference between Dili and New York?

Dili is currently 13 hours ahead of New York.

What is the time difference between Dili and London?

Dili is currently 8 hours ahead of London.

Dili, Timor Leste · UTC+9

06:15:34

Friday, April 3, 2026

W14 ↑ 06:41 ↓ 18:42 No DST

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Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste (East Timor), sits at UTC+9 year-round, a choice made at independence in 2002. During the Portuguese colonial period and the Indonesian occupation (1975-1999), the territory used UTC+8 (Indonesia’s WITA zone). After independence, the new government chose UTC+9, skipping a timezone step and aligning with Japan and South Korea rather than neighboring Denpasar or Darwin.

A political timezone choice at independence

The rationale was partly political, partly practical. UTC+9 gave Timor-Leste a distinct clock from Indonesia, symbolically marking independence. It also aligned the country with Japan, a significant donor nation and trading partner in the early post-independence period.

Geographically, UTC+9 runs fast for Dili’s longitude (125 degrees east, where UTC+8 or 8.5 would be more solar-accurate). Solar noon arrives around 11:20am in Dili, meaning the clock is ahead of the sun by about 40 minutes. But the country has lived with this offset for over two decades, and it now shapes the daily rhythm of a city still rebuilding from decades of conflict. The markets open early because UTC+9 means sunrise comes while the clock shows an hour lower than the sun implies.

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Sources

IANA Time Zone Database
Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia e Geofísica (INMG), Timor-Leste
Nevins, Joseph. A Not-So-Distant Horror: Mass Violence in East Timor. Cornell University Press, 2005.

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Questions about time in Dili

What timezone is Dili in?: Dili uses the IANA timezone Asia/Dili. The UTC offset is always UTC+9 - this timezone does not observe daylight saving time.
Does Dili observe daylight saving time?: No. Dili does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC+9 all year round.
What is the current UTC offset for Dili?: Dili is currently at UTC+9.
What is the time difference between Dili and New York?: Dili is currently 13 hours ahead of New York.
What is the time difference between Dili and London?: Dili is currently 8 hours ahead of London.
What is the time difference between Dili and Los Angeles?: Dili is currently 16 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
What is the IANA timezone name for Dili?: The IANA timezone database identifier for Dili is Asia/Dili. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Asia/Dili' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Asia/Dili')`), or any IANA-compatible library.

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