Indexed entity
Dhaka is the dhaka-BD record in Bangladesh: country slug bangladesh, city slug dhaka, ISO BD, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Dhaka.
Weekly digest
Pick the categories you care about: movies, AI launches, sports, eclipses, and major public dates. One email per week, and never anything you did not ask for.
Want full preferences? Customize your digest →
Live local time
Dhaka, Bangladesh
04:45:02 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Dhaka
Quick answer
It is currently 04:45:02 PM (BST, UTC+06:00) in Dhaka, Bangladesh — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
33°C
Thunderstorm
3-day forecast
Tue
35°C
27°C
63% rain
Wed
33°C
26°C
67% rain
Thu
33°C
25°C
57% rain
In 64 days
জুলাই গণঅভ্যুত্থান দিবস (July Mass Uprising Day)
Wed, Aug 5, 2026
PublicIn 197 days
বিজয় দিবস (Victory Day)
Wed, Dec 16, 2026
PublicIn 206 days
Fri, Dec 25, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Bangladeshi Taka
Live ECB rate not available for this currency.
Conversion rates aren’t published for this currency by the ECB. The local code is shown for reference.
Today
Sunrise
05:11 AM
Sunset
06:41 PM
Day length
13h 31m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Dhaka, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:45 AM UTC.
Current local time
04:45:02 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
BST
Asia/Dhaka · UTC+06:00
Next holiday
July Mass Uprising Day
Wednesday, August 5, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Dhaka right now
Nearest airport
DAC
Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport · 15 km
Indexed airports
2
Curated airport references available for Bangladesh
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 16:45 GMT+6
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Dhaka is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+06:00
Zone label
GMT+6
London
11:45 AM / -5h
Dubai
02:45 PM / -2h
Schedule risk
July Mass Uprising Day on Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Travel cue
DAC Dhaka, 15 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:11 AM to 06:41 PM, with solar noon around 11:56 AM and total daylight of 13h 30m.
Mapped location
23.71°N, 90.41°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:45 AM / -5h
Good live-call window with Dhaka right now.
New York
06:45 AM / -10h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:45 AM / -13h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:45 PM / -2h
Good live-call window with Dhaka right now.
Singapore
06:45 PM / +2h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Dhaka.
DAC · Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport
Dhaka
CGP · Shah Amanat International Airport
Chattogram (Chittagong)
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Asia/Dhaka for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+06:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+06:00.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Dhaka right now.
Check local interruptions
July Mass Uprising Day on Wednesday, August 5, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: DAC Dhaka, 15 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Asia/Dhaka. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Dhaka has no near-term DST change in view, but July Mass Uprising Day can still affect office coverage and local response times.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Dhaka.
Canonical route
/time/bangladesh/dhaka/
Catalog identity
dhaka-BD · BD · Asia
Coordinate cell
23.71°N, 90.41°E · lat 23.710 · lon 90.407 · cell 2371:9041
Population record
10,356,500 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Asia/Dhaka · GMT+6 · UTC+06:00
January / July offsets
UTC+06:00 / UTC+06:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Gazipur, Bangladesh · 32 km
Nearest world hub
Singapore · 2,876 km
Closest airport references
DAC Dhaka 15 km · CGP Chattogram (Chittagong) 217 km
Zone peer roster
Chattogram, Bangladesh · Gazipur, Bangladesh · Khulna, Bangladesh
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Dhaka: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Dhaka is the dhaka-BD record in Bangladesh: country slug bangladesh, city slug dhaka, ISO BD, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Dhaka.
23.71°N, 90.41°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 23 and longitude band 90; exact decimal pair 23.71040, 90.40744.
Bangladesh: official name People's Republic of Bangladesh; capital Dhaka; region Asia; subregion Southern Asia; country population 169,828,911; area 147,570 km²; languages Bengali; currencies BDT Bangladeshi taka. This is the country layer behind the Dhaka clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Bangladesh: Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world and among the most densely populated with a population of almost 176 million within an area of 148,460 square kilometres (57,320 sq mi). Bangladesh shares land borders with India to the north, west, and east, and Myanmar to the southeast. It has a coastline along the Bay of Bengal to its south and is separated from Bhutan and Nepal by the Siliguri Corridor, and from China by the Indian state of Sikkim to its north. Dhaka, the capital and largest city, is the nation's political, financial, and cultural centre, with its most affluent neighborhood Gulshan being among the most posh neighborhoods in South Asia. Chittagong is the second-largest city and the busiest port of the country. Source: Wikipedia.
Gazipur [gazipur-BD, BD, Asia/Dhaka, 32 km]; Khulna [khulna-BD, BD, Asia/Dhaka, 132 km]; Chattogram [chattogram-BD, BD, Asia/Dhaka, 211 km]; Phuntsholing [phuntsholing-BT, BT, Asia/Thimphu, 364 km]; Tsirang [tsirang-BT, BT, Asia/Thimphu, 369 km]; Thimphu [thimphu-BT, BT, Asia/Thimphu, 425 km]; Punākha [punakha-BT, BT, Asia/Thimphu, 435 km]; Mandalay [mandalay-MM, MM, Asia/Yangon, 613 km]
Dhaka is part of this indexed country cluster: Dhaka [dhaka-BD, Asia/Dhaka, pop 10,356,500]; Chattogram [chattogram-BD, Asia/Dhaka, pop 3,920,222]; Gazipur [gazipur-BD, Asia/Dhaka, pop 2,674,697]; Khulna [khulna-BD, Asia/Dhaka, pop 1,500,689].
Singapore 2,876 km; Dubai 3,550 km; Tokyo 4,886 km; London 8,003 km; Sydney 9,069 km; New York 12,672 km; Los Angeles 12,914 km; São Paulo 15,656 km
DAC Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka [BD, 15 km]; CGP Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram (Chittagong) [BD, 217 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include CGP Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram (Chittagong) [BD]; DAC Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka [BD].
Dhaka renders Jun 2, 2026 · 16:45 GMT+6; GMT+6 at UTC+06:00; January UTC+06:00; July UTC+06:00; next holiday July Mass Uprising Day on 2026-08-05.
This evidence pack keeps the manual city dossier tied to the concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Dhaka.
Dhaka is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 4 retained Bangladesh city pages. The route is /time/bangladesh/dhaka/ and the city id is dhaka-BD.
Dhaka has 16 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Dhaka is pinned at 23.71°N, 90.41°E; Gazipur (32 km); Singapore (2,876 km).
Asia/Dhaka resolves to stable UTC+06:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Bangladesh.
DAC Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (15 km) · July Mass Uprising Day (Wednesday, August 5, 2026) · 2 country airport references · 7 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Dhaka uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Dhaka: Dhaka, formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. With an estimated population of 36.6 million, Dhaka is the second largest city by population in the world, and is widely considered to be the most densely populated built-up urban area in the world. Dhaka is an important cultural, economic, and scientific hub of Eastern South Asia with its most affluent neighborhood Gulshan being among the most posh neighborhoods in South Asia. Dhaka ranks fourth in South Asia and 55th in the world in terms of GDP. Lying on the Ganges Delta, it is bounded by the Buriganga, Turag, Dhaleshwari and Shitalakshya rivers. It is also the largest Bengali-speaking city in the world.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+06:00) is constant year-round.
Dhaka is listed in the dataset snapshot as 6 hours ahead of UTC (offset +06:00). 5 hours ahead of London, 3 hours behind Tokyo.
Dhaka sits at 23.71°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 13 hours 28 minutes on the June solstice and about 10 hours 32 minutes on the December solstice.
Dhaka sits at 23.71°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 13 hours 28 minutes on the June solstice and about 10 hours 32 minutes on the December solstice.
Megacity with roughly 10.4 million urban residents — among the largest metropolitan areas in the world.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Jun 16 (13h 36m)
Shortest day
Dec 18 (10h 40m)
Year-round average
12h 9m
Annual swing
2h 56m
See the full daylight curve for Dhaka at /sun/dhaka/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Dhaka local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Dhaka |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 19:00 - 03:00 (next day) |
| London | Europe/London | 14:00 - 22:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 13:00 - 21:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 11:00 - 19:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 09:30 - 17:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 07:00 - 15:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 07:00 - 15:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 06:00 - 14:00 |
Public holidays in 2026
7
Capital status
National capital of Bangladesh
Dhaka is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, with about 10.3 million residents in the city proper and roughly 23 million in the Greater Dhaka metropolitan area, making it one of the world's most densely populated megacities. Bangladesh Standard Time (BST, UTC+6) is fixed year-round with no daylight saving since the country abandoned a brief experiment in 2009. Dhaka is the political and economic centre of Bangladesh, hosting the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) building designed by Louis Kahn, the Dhaka Stock Exchange, and the headquarters of the readymade-garments industry that makes Bangladesh the world's second-largest apparel exporter after China. The city sits on the banks of the Buriganga River and is among the cities most exposed to flooding from sea-level rise according to recent IPCC and World Bank assessments.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-11 (manual).
Reference fields include Dhaka's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 04:45:02 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Dhaka (UTC+06:00, BST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:11 AM to 06:41 PM
Day length 13h 30m · Solar noon 11:56 AM
Next country holiday
July Mass Uprising Day
Wednesday, August 5, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Dhaka local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Code with Claude Tokyo 2026
keynoteWednesday, June 10, 2026
8 days to go
ICML 2026
keynoteMonday, July 6, 2026
34 days to go
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
keynoteSunday, December 6, 2026
187 days to go
Xbox Games Showcase 2026
keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
Population
10.4M
Coordinates
23.71, 90.41
Timezone
Asia/Dhaka
Indexed airports
2
Capital
Dhaka
Languages
Bengali
Currency
BDT (৳)
Country area
147,570 km²
Dhaka, Bangladesh (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Dhaka (BST, UTC+06:00); population ~10.4M.
Coordinates: 23.71°N, 90.41°E. Northern Hemisphere subtropics, ~2632 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:11 AM and sets around 06:41 PM in Dhaka — about 13h 30m of daylight. Bangladesh stays on standard time here, so UTC+06:00 is stable through the year.
Gazipur (32 km from Dhaka) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 2 curated airport pages indexed for Bangladesh.
Next national holiday: July Mass Uprising Day, 2026-08-05.
Dhaka is indexed as a Asia city in the BD country record, using Asia/Dhaka as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/bangladesh/dhaka/.
Location context: 23.71°N, 90.41°E; population 10,356,500; nearest indexed city Gazipur is about 32 km away; closest reference hub is Singapore, about 2,876 km away.
Country planning context: capital Dhaka; subregion Southern Asia; languages Bengali; currency BDT (৳); area 147,570 km²; 2 curated airport references; next holiday July Mass Uprising Day on 2026-08-05.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+06:00) is constant year-round.
Dhaka is listed in the dataset snapshot as 6 hours ahead of UTC (offset +06:00). 5 hours ahead of London, 3 hours behind Tokyo.
Dhaka sits at 23.71°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 13 hours 28 minutes on the June solstice and about 10 hours 32 minutes on the December solstice.
Megacity with roughly 10.4 million urban residents — among the largest metropolitan areas in the world.
Related clock anchors for Dhaka: Chattogram (same time), San Francisco (−13h), Los Angeles (−13h), Dubai (−2h), Hong Kong (+2h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
bangladesh
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
BST
IANA Zone
Asia/Dhaka
UTC Offset
UTC+06:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+06:00
Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, British Indian Ocean Territory, Kyrgyzstan, Russia
Other cities in this timezone
London
-5h
New York
-10h
Los Angeles
-13h
Dubai
-2h
Singapore
+2h
Tokyo
+3h
Sydney
+4h
São Paulo
-9h
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 Dhaka.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Dhaka: closest hubs Singapore (~2,876 km), Dubai (~3,550 km), Tokyo (~4,886 km); farthest indexed hub São Paulo (~15,656 km).
Dhaka sits inside Bangladesh — the Southern Asia subregion, capital Dhaka, languages Bengali, currency BDT (৳).
Closest indexed cities to Dhaka: Gazipur (32 km), Khulna (132 km), Chattogram (211 km), Phuntsholing (364 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Dhaka: July Mass Uprising Day, Victory Day, Christmas Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Bangladesh.
Closest curated airport references from Dhaka: DAC Dhaka (15 km), CGP Chattogram (Chittagong) (217 km).
Bangladesh time searches often overlap with Ramadan, Eid, and daily prayer timing, so Dhaka pages need to explain more than a raw UTC offset.
Hazrat Shahjalal International AirportDAC
Dhaka · 15 km from Dhaka
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Shah Amanat International AirportCGP
Chattogram (Chittagong) · 217 km from Dhaka
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 2m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
2 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:45 AM | -5h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:45 AM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:45 AM | -13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:45 PM | -2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:45 PM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:45 PM | +3h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:45 PM | +4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:45 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
Dhaka is in the Asia/Dhaka timezone (BST), with a UTC offset of +06:00.
Dhaka does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+06:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Dhaka is UTC+06:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Dhaka, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 16:45 GMT+6. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Dhaka sits at 23.71°N, 90.41°E in Bangladesh, with about 10.4M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Dhaka is Singapore, about 2,876 km away as the crow flies.
Gazipur is the closest indexed city, roughly 32 km from Dhaka.
Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (DAC) is the closest curated airport reference, about 15 km from Dhaka.
July Mass Uprising Day is the next upcoming holiday in Bangladesh, on Wednesday, August 5, 2026.
Dhaka uses Bangladeshi taka (BDT, symbol ৳) as the local currency of Bangladesh.
The longest day of 2026 in Dhaka falls on Jun 16 with about 13h 36m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 18 with 10h 40m; the year-round average is 12h 9m.
In Dhaka local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 19:00-03:00 (next day); London 14:00-22:00; Frankfurt 13:00-21:00; Dubai 11:00-19:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.