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George Town, Malasia
11:07:10 AMWednesday, April 29, 2026 · Asia/Kuala_Lumpur

George Town, Penang
Capital city of the Malaysian state of Penang
Hora local actual
11:07:10 AM
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Zona horaria
MYT
Asia/Kuala_Lumpur · UTC+08:00
Próximo festivo
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Solapamiento laboral ahora
3 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with George Town right now
Aeropuerto más cercano
KUL
Kuala Lumpur International Airport · 333 km
Aeropuertos indexados
1
Curated airport references available for Malasia
Snapshot at render time: 11:07:10 AM on Wednesday, April 29, 2026 in George Town (UTC+08:00, MYT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 119
Days Remaining
246
Current weather
28°C, Light drizzle
Feels like 34°C · Humidity 85% · Wind 5 km/h
Sunrise and sunset
07:06 AM to 07:25 PM
Day length 12h 19m · Solar noon 01:16 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for George Town local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
158.3K
Coordinates
5.41, 100.34
Timezone
Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
Aeropuertos indexados
1
Capital
Kuala Lumpur
Languages
English, Malay
Currency
MYR (RM)
Country area
330,803 km²
Read time for George Town from the Asia/Kuala_Lumpur zone (MYT, UTC+08:00); the city carries roughly 158.3K residents and ranks #57 among curated Malasia entries.
Geographically, George Town is at 5.41°N, 100.34°E — that places it in the Northern Hemisphere's deep tropics, about 601 km from the equator, with year-round daylight that barely shifts between seasons.
Today the sun rises around 07:06 AM and sets around 07:25 PM in George Town — about 12h 19m of daylight. Malasia stays on standard time here, so UTC+08:00 is stable through the year.
Jelutong (3 km from George Town) gives this page its nearest commuter and travel cluster, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Malasia.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Timezone
MYT
IANA Zone
Asia/Kuala Lumpur
UTC Offset
UTC+08:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 119
Days Remaining
246
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+08:00
Antarctica, Australia, Brunei, Indonesia, Macao, China, Hong Kong, Russia
Other cities in this timezone
London
-7h
New York
-12h
Los Angeles
-15h
Dubai
-4h
Singapore
+0h
Tokyo
+1h
Sydney
+2h
São Paulo
-11h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with George Town.
George Town is the capital of the Malaysian state of Penang. It is the core city of the George Town Conurbation, Malaysia's second largest metropolitan area with a population of 2.84 million and the second largest metropolitan economy in the country. The city proper spans an area of 306 km2 (118 sq mi) encompassing Penang Island and surrounding islets, and had a population of 794,313 as of 2020.
From George Town the nearest of our reference hubs are Singapore (~594 km), Tokyo (~5,238 km), Dubai (~5,275 km), while São Paulo sits about 15,945 km away — useful framing when someone needs a feel for whether a meeting is a regional hop or an intercontinental call.
George Town sits inside Malasia — the South-Eastern Asia subregion, capital Kuala Lumpur, languages English, Malay, currency MYR (RM).
Jelutong (3 km), Butterworth (3 km), Kampung Sungai Glugur (5 km), Glugor (5 km) are the nearest cities WorldClockTools indexes around George Town — that's the cluster to use when scheduling spills past the city limits.
Closest curated airport references from George Town: KUL Sepang (333 km).
In 2015, A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
Kuala Lumpur International AirportKUL
Sepang · 333 km from George Town
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 11m
Exchange snapshot
1 MYR = 0.217 EUR · 1 MYR = 0.188 GBP · 1 MYR = 0.253 USD
As of 2026-04-28
On this day
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2013: National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing all seven people on board.
Coordination pulse
3 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 04:07 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 11:07 PM | -12h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 08:07 PM | -15h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 07:07 AM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 11:07 AM | +0h | Good to call now |
| Tokyo | 12:07 PM | +1h | Good to call now |
| Sydney | 01:07 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| São Paulo | 12:07 AM | -11h | Check the overlap widget below |
George Town está en la zona horaria Asia/Kuala_Lumpur (MYT), con un desfase UTC de +08:00.
George Town no está actualmente observando el Horario de Verano.
El desfase UTC actual para George Town es UTC+08:00.
George Town sits at 5.41°N, 100.34°E in Malasia, with about 158.3K residents (rank #57 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to George Town is Singapore, about 594 km away as the crow flies.
Jelutong is the closest indexed city, roughly 3 km from George Town.
Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL) is the closest curated airport reference, about 333 km from George Town.