Current time in Denpasar, Indonesia
The current local time in Denpasar is shown below. Denpasar observes WITA.
What's the daylight saving status?
Denpasar 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 Denpasar?
Denpasar uses Central Indonesia Time (WITA) at UTC+8, the second of Indonesia's three timezones. The country's longitudinal span from around 95 to 141 degrees east is divided into WIB (Jakarta, Sumatra) at +7, WITA (Bali, Sulawesi, Kalimantan east) at +8, and WIT (Papua) at +9. The WITA zone matches Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and Hong Kong wall time. Indonesia has not operated daylight saving in modern history. Bali's longitude around 115 degrees east places wall time roughly 20 minutes behind mean solar noon.
What are the working hours in Denpasar?
Tourism, government administration for Bali province, and the expanding remote-work and digital-nomad economy along the southern coast anchor the modern working economy. Office hours typically run 08:00 to 16:00 in government and 09:00 to 17:00 in private business, with a one-hour lunch around 12:00. The substantial Balinese Hindu calendar (rather than the Indonesian national Islamic-secular calendar) shapes local rhythms significantly: Nyepi (the day of silence) in March closes the entire island including the airport for 24 hours, and Galungan-Kuningan in 210-day cycles produces extended community celebrations.
Where is Denpasar?
Denpasar is the capital of Bali, the largest city on the island and the administrative centre of the Indonesian province. The city proper holds around 730,000 residents within Bali's wider population of around 4.3 million. The city sits in south-central Bali at low elevation. Ngurah Rai International Airport, a few kilometres south at Tuban, handles substantially all visitor arrivals to the island. Kuta, Seminyak, and Canggu, the principal coastal tourism areas, lie immediately west and north-west. Mount Agung, Bali's highest peak, rises to 3,031 metres around 60 kilometres north-east.