Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Current time in Malaysia
Time zone: +08 (UTC/GMT +08:00) — Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, 8 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +08:00) Asia/Kuala_Lumpur |
Current Time in other Cities of Malaysia
Time zone in Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur runs on +08. That places it 8 hours ahead of UTC (UTC+08:00); in a calendar, server config or booking form, select Asia/Kuala_Lumpur.
Clocks in Kuala Lumpur stay put. With no summer-time switch, the UTC+08:00 offset is fixed and the differences shown below only shift when the other end changes.
Across Malaysia there are 2 distinct time zones among these 39 cities, so "local time" there depends entirely on which city you mean.
Time gaps from Kuala Lumpur right now
How Kuala Lumpur lines up against other major centres at this moment — the numbers move when either side changes its clocks.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Kuala Lumpur is 12 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Kuala Lumpur is 15 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Kuala Lumpur is 7 hours ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Kuala Lumpur is 6 hours ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Kuala Lumpur is 4 hours ahead |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Kuala Lumpur is 2 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | same time as Kuala Lumpur |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Kuala Lumpur is 1 hour behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Kuala Lumpur is 2 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Kuala Lumpur is 11 hours ahead |
When Kuala Lumpur and other cities overlap
Usable call slots from Kuala Lumpur, taking business hours as 09:00 to 17:00 in both places.
| Shanghai | 09:00–17:00 in Kuala Lumpur | 8 hours overlap |
| Tokyo | 09:00–16:00 in Kuala Lumpur | 7 hours overlap |
| Sydney | 09:00–15:00 in Kuala Lumpur | 6 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 11:30–17:00 in Kuala Lumpur | 5.5 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with New York, Los Angeles or Sao Paulo, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
Sharing Kuala Lumpur's time zone
No difference at all from Kuala Lumpur: the cities below share the Asia/Kuala_Lumpur zone.
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