Mandalay, Myanmar · UTC+6:30
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Mandalay was the last capital of the Burmese kingdom before British annexation in 1885, and today it is Myanmar’s second-largest city and cultural heart. It runs on Myanmar Time, UTC+6:30, a half-hour offset shared with Yangon and the entire country.
a half-hour offset and its neighbors
Myanmar’s unusual 30-minute offset has British colonial roots. The country was administered as part of British India, which also used a non-standard offset, and when Burma established its own time standard it chose UTC+6:30 rather than aligning with India or the neighboring UTC+7 countries. The offset has remained unchanged since 1945.
The practical effect is that Mandalay is always slightly off from every neighbor: Thailand and Vietnam are at UTC+7, Bangladesh at UTC+6, India at UTC+5:30. Scheduling across any border requires non-round-number arithmetic.
At nearly 22 degrees north, Mandalay’s daylight shifts meaningfully across the year: about 11 hours in December, 13 hours in June. The traditional Burmese calendar, still observed for religious purposes, runs on lunar cycles that don’t correspond to the civil clock.
9am in Mandalay is 2:30am in London during European winter. The half-hour offset makes the calculation slightly unexpected.
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Questions about time in Mandalay
- What timezone is Mandalay in?
- Mandalay uses the IANA timezone
Asia/Yangon. The UTC offset is always UTC+6:30 — this timezone does not observe daylight saving time. - Does Mandalay observe daylight saving time?
- No. Mandalay does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC+6:30 all year round.
- What is the current UTC offset for Mandalay?
- Mandalay is currently at UTC+6:30.
- What is the time difference between Mandalay and New York?
- Mandalay is currently 10 hours 30 minutes ahead of New York.
- What is the time difference between Mandalay and London?
- Mandalay is currently 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of London.
- What is the time difference between Mandalay and Los Angeles?
- Mandalay is currently 13 hours 30 minutes ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the time difference between Mandalay and Tokyo?
- Mandalay is currently 2 hours 30 minutes behind Tokyo.
- What is the IANA timezone name for Mandalay?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for Mandalay is
Asia/Yangon. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Asia/Yangon' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Asia/Yangon')`), or any IANA-compatible library.