Time in Dhaka
Dhaka is on Bangladesh Standard Time, UTC+6, all year with no daylight saving. It is 30 minutes ahead of India and one hour ahead of Pakistan.
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- IANA time zone:
- Asia/Dhaka
- Country:
- Bangladesh
- Coordinates:
- 23.81° N, 90.41° E
- Clock changes in 2026:
- none, UTC+6 all year
Sunrise and sunset in Dhaka
Monday, October 19, 2026, local time
- Sunrise
- 5:57 AM
- Sunset
- 5:29 PM
- Day length
- 11 h 32 min
- Solar noon
- 11:43 AM
| Date | Sunrise | Sunset | Day length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon, Oct 19 | 5:57 AM | 5:29 PM | 11 h 32 min |
| Tue, Oct 20 | 5:57 AM | 5:28 PM | 11 h 30 min−2′ |
| Wed, Oct 21 | 5:58 AM | 5:27 PM | 11 h 29 min−1′ |
| Thu, Oct 22 | 5:58 AM | 5:26 PM | 11 h 28 min−1′ |
| Fri, Oct 23 | 5:59 AM | 5:25 PM | 11 h 27 min−1′ |
| Sat, Oct 24 | 5:59 AM | 5:25 PM | 11 h 25 min−2′ |
| Sun, Oct 25 | 6:00 AM | 5:24 PM | 11 h 24 min−1′ |
Approximate times (usually within two minutes), calculated from the city's coordinates with the NOAA solar equations. Hills, tall buildings and unusual air refraction can shift what you see.
Time in Dhaka when it is 9:00, 12:00, 17:00 or 21:00 elsewhere
Each cell is the time in Dhaka at that hour in the city on the left, using today's offsets.
| When it is … in | 9:00 AM | 12:00 PM | 5:00 PM | 9:00 PM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 7:00 PM | 10:00 PM | 3:00 AM+1 | 7:00 AM+1 |
| London | 2:00 PM | 5:00 PM | 10:00 PM | 2:00 AM+1 |
| Paris | 1:00 PM | 4:00 PM | 9:00 PM | 1:00 AM+1 |
| Dubai | 11:00 AM | 2:00 PM | 7:00 PM | 11:00 PM |
| Mumbai | 9:30 AM | 12:30 PM | 5:30 PM | 9:30 PM |
| Singapore | 7:00 AM | 10:00 AM | 3:00 PM | 7:00 PM |
| Tokyo | 6:00 AM | 9:00 AM | 2:00 PM | 6:00 PM |
| Sydney | 4:00 AM | 7:00 AM | 12:00 PM | 4:00 PM |
The other BST
Bangladesh Standard Time shares its abbreviation, BST, with British Summer Time, which causes regular confusion in calendar invites. The two are five hours apart. Writing the offset, UTC+6, avoids the problem.
Bangladesh tried daylight saving once. On June 19, 2009, the government moved clocks forward to UTC+7 to save electricity during the evening peak. The change was unpopular, especially among farmers and with prayer times, and the clocks went back on December 31, 2009. There has been no clock change since.
Dhaka lies at about 90.4° east, almost exactly on the 90th meridian on which UTC+6 is based, so the clock and the sun agree closely: solar noon falls between about 11:56 AM and 12:00 PM. Daylight runs from roughly 10 hours 40 minutes in December, with sunset near 5:16 PM, to about 13 hours 36 minutes in June, with sunrise around 5:12 AM.
Working week in Dhaka
The weekend is Friday and Saturday, and government offices work Sunday to Thursday, generally from 9:00 to 17:00. The Dhaka Stock Exchange trades from 10:00 to 14:30 on the same days. Many garment exporters and outsourcing firms keep extended or shifted hours so they can talk to buyers in Europe and North America.
Dhaka against New York and London
Dhaka is eleven hours ahead of New York during US standard time and ten hours ahead from March to November, so 9:00 AM in New York is 7:00 or 8:00 PM in Dhaka. London is six hours behind in winter and five in summer, so a 10:00 AM London call is 3:00 or 4:00 PM in Dhaka. The shared working days with the West are Monday to Thursday. Use the time zone converter to check a specific date.
Frequently asked questions
- Does Bangladesh have daylight saving time?
- No. Bangladesh tried it from June to December 2009 and has stayed on UTC+6 all year since.
- Is BST in Bangladesh the same as BST in the UK?
- No. Bangladesh Standard Time is UTC+6; British Summer Time is UTC+1. Use the UTC offset in invitations to avoid mix-ups.
- How far ahead of India is Dhaka?
- Thirty minutes. India uses UTC+5:30 and Bangladesh UTC+6, and neither changes clocks.
- Which days are working days in Bangladesh?
- Sunday to Thursday. Friday and Saturday form the weekend for government offices, banks and the stock exchange.