Philippines time now, live flip clock
The Philippines keeps one time zone across all its islands, Philippine Standard Time, PhST, UTC+8. Its clocks do not change. The clock above shows the time and today's date in the Philippines, live, with seconds.
Time zone in the Philippines
Every island keeps the same zone, so Manila, Quezon City, Cebu and Davao always show the same time.
- PhST, UTC+8
- Not observed
- Quezon City, Davao, Caloocan City, Manila
How many hours ahead or behind the Philippines
On 8 October 2026, Los Angeles is 15 hours behind the Philippines.
| City | Difference from the Philippines |
|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 15 hours behind |
| New York | 12 hours behind |
| Toronto | 12 hours behind |
| London | 7 hours behind |
| Dubai | 4 hours behind |
| Riyadh | 5 hours behind |
| Hong Kong | Same time |
| Tokyo | 1 hour ahead |
| Sydney | 3 hours ahead |
| Your time zone | Detected after this page loads |
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How the Philippines keeps its time
- One clock for every island
- 7,641
- NAMRIA, the national mapping agency, counts 7,641 islands, spread from Batanes near Taiwan to Tawi-Tawi near Borneo. All of them keep Philippine Standard Time, so a clock in Batanes and a clock in Tawi-Tawi always agree.
- The official time
- PAGASA
- PAGASA, the national weather and astronomy service, keeps the official time. The Philippine Standard Time Act makes government offices and TV and radio stations set their clocks to it. PAGASA also publishes that time online through a network time server, so anyone can match it.
- The day the Philippines skipped
- 1 day
- The Philippines once kept its calendar a day behind its Asian neighbours. In the nineteenth century, the Spanish governor Narciso Clavería moved it to the Asian side. He did it by dropping New Year's Eve from one year's calendar.
- No daylight saving time
- 0
- The Philippines tried daylight saving time a few times in the twentieth century. It has not used it for decades, so its clocks stay the same all year. The gap with the US, Europe and other places that change their clocks moves by an hour twice a year.
Questions about time in the Philippines
What time zone is the Philippines in?
The whole country keeps one time zone, Philippine Standard Time, PhST, UTC+8. It is the same in Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao, and it does not change during the year. PAGASA, the national weather and astronomy service, keeps the official time. By law, government offices and broadcasters must follow it.
What day is it in the Philippines right now?
The date under the clock at the top of this page is today's date in the Philippines. It updates at midnight Manila time. The Philippines is ahead of Europe and the Americas, so it is often already tomorrow there. When it is evening in New York, it is the next morning in Manila.
Does the Philippines have daylight saving time?
No. The Philippines stays on PhST, UTC+8 all year and does not change its clocks. Its gap with countries that do change moves twice a year. New York is one hour closer to Manila in the northern summer. Sydney is one hour further ahead in the southern summer.
What is the time difference between the Philippines and the US?
New York is 13 hours behind Manila in winter. In summer the gap is one hour less, because the US moves its clocks forward. Los Angeles is 16 hours behind Manila in winter, and one hour less in summer. The table above shows today's gap, already adjusted for the season.
What is the time difference between the Philippines and the Middle East?
Dubai is 4 hours behind Manila, and Riyadh is 5 hours behind Manila. The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and the Philippines do not change their clocks. So Manila's working day is already about half done when Dubai's begins.
Time zone names for developers
| IANA zone | Standard time | Daylight saving time |
|---|---|---|
| Asia/Manila | PhST, UTC+8 | No |
Sources
We checked each fact on this page against these sources on 30 September 2026. Times, offsets and clock changes come from the time zone database.