Current time in Bali, Indonesia
The current local time in Bali is shown below. Bali observes WITA.
What's the daylight saving status?
Bali does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- Asia/Makassar
- Standard abbreviation
- WITA
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇮🇩 Indonesia
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Bali?
Bali keeps Central Indonesia Time, an hour ahead of Java despite lying just across a narrow strait, so the short ferry or flight from the eastern tip of Java steps the clock forward by a full hour, a jump that regularly catches travellers out. The offset leaves the island one to two hours behind the eastern Australian cities that supply much of its tourism, a small enough gap that calls and bookings between them rarely run into the night on either side.
What are the working hours in Bali?
Tourism governs the working day across the south of the island, where hospitality, diving, and the visitor trade run on guests' hours rather than office ones, busiest through the Australian school holidays of July and the year-end. The Balinese Hindu calendar, separate from the national one, sets the deeper rhythm. Its new-year day of silence in March suspends all activity for 24 hours, with no flights, no traffic, and no commerce, the single day each year when even the tourist economy falls completely still.
Where is Bali?
Bali is a volcanic island immediately east of Java, the most prominent of Indonesia's chain of Lesser Sunda islands, with a population of around 4.3 million. A spine of mountains crowned by the active volcano Agung divides a wet, terraced south from a drier north, and the intricate subak irrigation that feeds its rice terraces has shaped the landscape for a thousand years. The island is overwhelmingly Hindu, unusual in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country.