Current time in Malé, Maldives
The current local time in Malé is shown below. Malé observes MVT.
What's the daylight saving status?
Malé does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- Indian/Maldives
- Standard abbreviation
- MVT
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇲🇻 Maldives
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Malé?
The Maldives operates Maldives Time at UTC+5 year-round with no daylight saving, the same offset as Pakistan and Tajikistan. The country's near-equatorial position (Malé sits at around 4.2 degrees north) produces minimal seasonal variation in day length, removing any rationale for DST. The position one hour behind India and 30 minutes behind Sri Lanka makes the Maldives the western anchor of the South Asian timezone band, with consistent year-round alignment to Gulf business hours at UTC+4 just one hour back.
What are the working hours in Malé?
Malé's working week runs Sunday to Thursday with Friday and Saturday as the weekend, following the Islamic-majority calendar. Office hours run 08:00 to 16:00 with a break around the dhuhr prayer. The economy depends overwhelmingly on tourism (around 1.7 million annual visitors to the wider archipelago) and on financial services that have grown around the resort industry. Friday is the communal-prayer day across the country. Public holidays follow the Islamic lunar calendar, with the secular Independence Day on 26 July commemorating the 1965 separation from Britain.
Where is Malé?
Malé is the capital and largest city of the Maldives, occupying a single 1.95-square-kilometre island near the centre of the archipelago around 500 kilometres south-west of Sri Lanka. The municipal population is around 215,000, producing one of the highest population densities of any capital in the world. The island is essentially built out: every habitable square metre is occupied, with land reclamation projects on the adjacent Hulhumalé island accommodating ongoing population growth. The international airport sits on the separate Hulhulé island connected by a 2.1-kilometre bridge.