Kuching, Malaysia
Current time in Malaysia
Time zone: +08 (UTC/GMT +08:00) — Asia/Kuching
| Local Clock Offset: Today, 0 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +8 ) Kuching, Malaysia |
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What time zone is Kuching in?
Local time here is +08, which sits 8 hours ahead of UTC, written UTC+08:00. The canonical zone name is Asia/Kuching, and that is what to pick from a time zone dropdown.
Clocks in Kuching 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.
Malaysia is not on a single clock: the 39 cities listed here fall across 2 time zones, so times elsewhere in the country will not match Kuching.
Around 402,738 people live in Kuching, making it the 15th largest of the 38 Malaysia cities covered here.
Time difference between Kuching and other cities
Read this as: relative to each city below, Kuching is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Kuching is 12 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Kuching is 15 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Kuching is 7 hours ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Kuching is 6 hours ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Kuching is 4 hours ahead |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Kuching is 2 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | same time as Kuching |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Kuching is 1 hour behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Kuching is 2 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Kuching is 11 hours ahead |
Scheduling calls with Kuching
Assuming a 09:00–17:00 day at both ends, these windows (in Kuching local time) fall inside working hours for both cities.
| Shanghai | 09:00–17:00 in Kuching | 8 hours overlap |
| Tokyo | 09:00–16:00 in Kuching | 7 hours overlap |
| Sydney | 09:00–15:00 in Kuching | 6 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 11:30–17:00 in Kuching | 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 Kuching's time zone
No difference at all from Kuching: the cities below share the Asia/Kuching zone.
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