Current time in Yangon, Myanmar
The current local time in Yangon is shown below. Yangon observes MMT.
What's the daylight saving status?
Yangon 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/Yangon
- Standard abbreviation
- MMT
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇲🇲 Myanmar
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Yangon?
Myanmar keeps a distinctive UTC+6:30 offset, one of the small group of half-hour zones, sitting neatly between India and Bangladesh to the west and Thailand at UTC+7 to the east. The half-hour step in each direction means routine border traffic with neighbours on round or half-hour offsets involves an awkward fractional change. The single national clock covers the whole country, and Myanmar has not used daylight saving, holding the same offset throughout the year.
What are the working hours in Yangon?
Yangon's working day runs broadly 09:00 to 17:00 across government and the private sector, while the commercial economy of markets, ports, and trading houses keeps longer and more flexible hours. Thingyan, the Burmese New Year water festival in mid-April, is the year's defining holiday, when the city all but closes for several days of celebration in the hottest part of the year. Buddhist observances follow the lunar calendar, and the full-moon days that punctuate it bring their own pauses to commercial life. The cooler, drier months from November to February are the busiest stretch for trade and construction.
Where is Yangon?
Yangon spreads across the delta where the Yangon River meets the Andaman Sea in the south of Myanmar, the country's largest city and its commercial heart with a metropolitan population of around 6 million. It served as the national capital until 2006, when the government moved the seat of administration inland to the purpose-built city of Naypyidaw, leaving Yangon as the centre of trade, finance, and shipping and the country's main gateway to the sea.