Current time in Bangkok, Thailand
The current local time in Bangkok is shown below. Bangkok observes ICT.
Daylight saving time
Bangkok does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
Sunrise & sunset today
Timezone facts
- Timezone
- Asia/Bangkok
- Standard abbreviation
- ICT
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇹🇠Thailand
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 18:00 local
Bangkok in context
Bangkok is the capital and largest city of Thailand, sitting on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River about 25 kilometres upstream from the Gulf of Thailand. The Bangkok Metropolitan Region holds around 15 million residents, with the city proper accounting for around 10 million of that. Built largely on the flat delta of the river, the city sits only one to two metres above sea level and is gradually subsiding, a fact that has driven major flood-protection infrastructure across the wider region in recent decades.
Timezone history of Bangkok
Thailand runs on Indochina Time at UTC+7, shared with neighbouring Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, and matching the standard meridian at 105 degrees east. The single national timezone covers a country that runs around 1,600 kilometres north-to-south but only narrowly east-to-west, so the offset works well across nearly all of the territory. Thailand has never adopted daylight saving, partly because of its tropical latitude: Bangkok sits at around 14 degrees north, where day length varies by only about an hour across the year.
Working hours in Bangkok
Bangkok's working day typically begins at 08:30 or 09:00 and runs to 17:30 or 18:00, with the hour around 12:00 to 13:00 for lunch and many offices observing a brief afternoon break. The heat and humidity shape commute timing, with many workers travelling at the edges of the day to avoid the worst of it. Songkran, the Thai New Year holiday in mid-April, produces the longest annual business closure, with many offices shutting for the full week as employees return to home provinces.