Current time in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
The current local time in Phnom Penh is shown below. Phnom Penh observes ICT.
What's the daylight saving status?
Phnom Penh 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/Phnom_Penh
- Standard abbreviation
- ICT
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇰🇭 Cambodia
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Phnom Penh?
Phnom Penh uses Indochina Time at UTC+7, the same single offset used across Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and most of Vietnam. The country has not observed daylight saving. The city's longitude around 104.9 degrees east places wall time slightly behind mean solar noon. The tropical latitude near 11 degrees north produces minimal seasonal day-length variation. The shared time zone with Bangkok, Vientiane, and Ho Chi Minh City simplifies regional commerce and travel across mainland south-east Asia. Vietnam's Hanoi is the same UTC+7.
What are the working hours in Phnom Penh?
Garment manufacturing (the country's principal export sector), tourism (Phnom Penh is the principal gateway to the Angkor temple complex 320 kilometres north-west at Siem Reap), and an expanding services and technology sector anchor employment. Office hours typically run 08:00 to 17:00 with a one-hour lunch around 12:00. Khmer New Year in mid-April produces the largest annual calendar event, with most businesses closing for around five days. Pchum Ben (Ancestors Day) in September or October and the Water Festival in November are also major cultural events. Buddhist holidays follow the lunar calendar.
Where is Phnom Penh?
Phnom Penh is the capital and largest city of Cambodia, sitting at the confluence of the Mekong, Bassac, and Tonlé Sap rivers in the south-east of the country. The city proper holds around 2.3 million residents and the wider metropolitan area roughly 2.5 million. The Royal Palace and the Silver Pagoda anchor the central waterfront along the Tonlé Sap River. The unusual hydraulic phenomenon of the Tonlé Sap River reversing direction twice yearly (flooding north into the Tonlé Sap lake during the monsoon, then draining south) makes the lake the largest freshwater fishery in south-east Asia.