Indexed entity
Ambon is the ambon-ID record in Indonesia: country slug indonesia, city slug ambon, ISO ID, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Jayapura.
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Live local time
Ambon, Indonesia
07:43:29 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Jayapura
Quick answer
It is currently 07:43:29 PM (WIT, UTC+09:00) in Ambon, Indonesia — Evening.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
29°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
29°C
25°C
80% rain
Wed
29°C
25°C
84% rain
Thu
28°C
24°C
80% rain
In 76 days
Hari Ulang Tahun Kemerdekaan Republik Indonesia (Independence Day)
Mon, Aug 17, 2026
PublicIn 206 days
Hari Raya Natal (Christmas Day)
Fri, Dec 25, 2026
PublicIn 213 days
Tahun Baru Masehi (New Year's Day)
Fri, Jan 1, 2027
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Indonesian Rupiah
1 USD = 17,695 IDR
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
06:27 AM
Sunset
06:22 PM
Day length
11h 55m
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 Ambon, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:43 AM UTC.
Current local time
07:43:29 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
WIT
Asia/Jayapura · UTC+09:00
Next holiday
Independence Day
Monday, August 17, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Ambon right now
Nearest airport
UPG
Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport · 969 km
Indexed airports
8
Curated airport references available for Indonesia
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Ambon, Indonesia.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 19:43 GMT+9
No reference-city overlap right now
Ambon is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC+09:00
Zone label
GMT+9
London
11:43 AM / -8h
New York
06:43 AM / -13h
Los Angeles
03:43 AM / -16h
Schedule risk
Independence Day on Monday, August 17, 2026
Travel cue
UPG Makassar, 969 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:27 AM to 06:22 PM, with solar noon around 12:25 PM and total daylight of 11h 55m.
Mapped location
3.70°S, 128.18°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:43 AM / -8h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:43 AM / -13h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:43 AM / -16h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:43 PM / -5h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:43 PM / -1h
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 Ambon.
UPG · Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport
Makassar
SUB · Juanda International Airport
Surabaya
SOC · Adisoemarmo International Airport
Surakarta
SRG · Jenderal Ahmad Yani Airport
Semarang
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Asia/Jayapura for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+09:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+09:00.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps Ambon right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
Independence Day on Monday, August 17, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: UPG Makassar, 969 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Asia/Jayapura. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Ambon has no near-term DST change in view, but Independence 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 Ambon.
Canonical route
/time/indonesia/ambon/
Catalog identity
ambon-ID · ID · Asia
Coordinate cell
3.70°S, 128.18°E · lat -3.696 · lon 128.183 · cell -370:12818
Population record
347,288 residents · country rank 10
Zone snapshot
Asia/Jayapura · GMT+9 · UTC+09:00
January / July offsets
UTC+09:00 / UTC+09:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Sorong, Indonesia · 464 km
Nearest world hub
Singapore · 2,765 km
Closest airport references
UPG Makassar 969 km · SUB Surabaya 1752 km · SOC Surakarta 1974 km · SRG Semarang 2005 km
Zone peer roster
Jayapura, Indonesia · Sorong, Indonesia · Ternate, Indonesia
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Ambon: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Ambon is the ambon-ID record in Indonesia: country slug indonesia, city slug ambon, ISO ID, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Jayapura.
3.70°S, 128.18°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -4 and longitude band 128; exact decimal pair -3.69583, 128.18333.
Indonesia: official name Republic of Indonesia; capital Jakarta; region Asia; subregion South-Eastern Asia; country population 284,438,782; area 1,904,569 km²; languages Indonesian; currencies IDR Indonesian rupiah. This is the country layer behind the Ambon clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Indonesia: Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. Comprising over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea, Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at 1,904,569 square kilometres. Indonesia has significant areas of wilderness that support one of the world's highest levels of biodiversity. It shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, and Malaysia, as well as maritime borders with seven other countries, including Australia, Singapore, and the Philippines. Source: Wikipedia.
Sorong [sorong-ID, ID, Asia/Jayapura, 464 km]; Ternate [ternate-ID, ID, Asia/Jayapura, 507 km]; Dili [dili-TL, TL, Asia/Dili, 613 km]; Likisá [likisa-TL, TL, Asia/Dili, 628 km]; Maliana [maliana-TL, TL, Asia/Dili, 674 km]; Suai [suai-TL, TL, Asia/Dili, 703 km]; Makassar [makassar-ID, ID, Asia/Makassar, 984 km]; Darwin [darwin-AU, AU, Australia/Darwin, 1018 km]
Ambon is part of this indexed country cluster: Jakarta [jakarta-ID, Asia/Jakarta, pop 8,540,121]; Surabaya [surabaya-ID, Asia/Jakarta, pop 2,874,314]; Bekasi [bekasi-ID, Asia/Jakarta, pop 2,564,940]; Bandung [bandung-ID, Asia/Jakarta, pop 2,444,160]; Makassar [makassar-ID, Asia/Makassar, pop 1,423,877]; Samarinda [samarinda-ID, Asia/Makassar, pop 831,460]; Denpasar [denpasar-ID, Asia/Makassar, pop 725,314]; Balikpapan [balikpapan-ID, Asia/Makassar, pop 695,287]; Jayapura [jayapura-ID, Asia/Jayapura, pop 404,004]; Ambon [ambon-ID, Asia/Jayapura, pop 347,288].
Singapore 2,765 km; Sydney 4,116 km; Tokyo 4,538 km; Dubai 8,478 km; Los Angeles 12,400 km; London 12,878 km; New York 15,338 km; São Paulo 16,934 km
UPG Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport in Makassar [ID, 969 km]; SUB Juanda International Airport in Surabaya [ID, 1752 km]; SOC Adisoemarmo International Airport in Surakarta [ID, 1974 km]; SRG Jenderal Ahmad Yani Airport in Semarang [ID, 2005 km]; YIA Yogyakarta International Airport in Yogyakarta [ID, 2059 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include CGK Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta [ID]; HLP Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport in Jakarta [ID]; KNO Kualanamu International Airport in Beringin [ID]; SOC Adisoemarmo International Airport in Surakarta [ID]; SRG Jenderal Ahmad Yani Airport in Semarang [ID]; SUB Juanda International Airport in Surabaya [ID]; UPG Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport in Makassar [ID]; YIA Yogyakarta International Airport in Yogyakarta [ID].
Ambon renders Jun 2, 2026 · 19:43 GMT+9; GMT+9 at UTC+09:00; January UTC+09:00; July UTC+09:00; next holiday Independence Day on 2026-08-17.
This evidence pack is what keeps smaller city pages from reading like timezone templates: concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Ambon.
Ambon is a context-and-reference city; rank #10 of 12 retained Indonesia city pages. The route is /time/indonesia/ambon/ and the city id is ambon-ID.
Ambon has 15 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.
Ambon is pinned at 3.70°S, 128.18°E; Sorong (464 km); Singapore (2,765 km).
Asia/Jayapura resolves to stable UTC+09:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Indonesia.
UPG Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport (969 km) · Independence Day (Monday, August 17, 2026) · 8 country airport references · 8 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Ambon 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.
Ambon, Maluku: Ambon is the capital and largest city of the Indonesian province of Maluku. This city is also known as Ambon Manise, which means "beautiful" or "pretty" Ambon in the Ambonese language. It covers a land area of 359.45 square kilometres (138.78 sq mi), and had a population of 331,254 at the 2010 Census and 347,288 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as of mid 2024 was 357,289. The city is divided into five administrative districts – namely Nusaniwe, Sirimau, Teluk Ambon, Baguala and Leitimur Selatan. Known as Indonesia's music city, Ambon became the first city in Southeast Asia to be recognised as the UNESCO City of Music in 2019.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+09:00) is constant year-round.
Ambon is listed in the dataset snapshot as 9 hours ahead of UTC (offset +09:00). 8 hours ahead of London, on the same clock as Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 128.18°, Ambon's mean solar noon falls about 27 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Ambon sits at 3.70°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Ambon sits at 3.70°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
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
Jan 1 (12h 20m)
Shortest day
Jun 16 (11h 54m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
0h 26m
See the full daylight curve for Ambon at /sun/ambon/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Ambon local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Ambon |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 22:00 - 06:00 (next day) |
| London | Europe/London | 17:00 - 01:00 (next day) |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 16:00 - 00:00 (next day) |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 14:00 - 22:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 12:30 - 20:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 09:00 - 17:00 |
IANA time zones in country
3
Public holidays in 2026
8
Reference fields include Ambon's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 07:43:29 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Ambon (UTC+09:00, WIT).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:27 AM to 06:22 PM
Day length 11h 55m · Solar noon 12:25 PM
Next country holiday
Independence Day
Monday, August 17, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Ambon local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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34 days to go
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161 days to go
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187 days to go
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Population
347.3K
Coordinates
-3.70, 128.18
Timezone
Asia/Jayapura
Indexed airports
8
Capital
Jakarta
Languages
Indonesian
Currency
IDR (Rp)
Country area
1,904,569 km²
Ambon, Indonesia (population rank #10 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Jayapura (WIT, UTC+09:00); population ~347.3K.
Coordinates: 3.70°S, 128.18°E. Equatorial Hemisphere deep tropics, ~410 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:27 AM and sets around 06:22 PM in Ambon — about 11h 55m of daylight. Indonesia stays on standard time here, so UTC+09:00 is stable through the year.
Sorong (464 km from Ambon) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 8 curated airport pages indexed for Indonesia.
Next national holiday: Independence Day, 2026-08-17.
Ambon is indexed as a Asia city in the ID country record, using Asia/Jayapura as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/indonesia/ambon/.
Location context: 3.70°S, 128.18°E; population 347,288; nearest indexed city Sorong is about 464 km away; closest reference hub is Singapore, about 2,765 km away.
Country planning context: capital Jakarta; subregion South-Eastern Asia; languages Indonesian; currency IDR (Rp); area 1,904,569 km²; 8 curated airport references; next holiday Independence Day on 2026-08-17.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+09:00) is constant year-round.
Ambon is listed in the dataset snapshot as 9 hours ahead of UTC (offset +09:00). 8 hours ahead of London, on the same clock as Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 128.18°, Ambon's mean solar noon falls about 27 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Ambon sits at 3.70°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Mid-sized city with around 347 thousand residents — busy enough to keep regular international business hours, small enough to retain a regional character. (Ambon city-proper figure.)
Related clock anchors for Ambon: Jakarta (−2h), San Francisco (−16h), Los Angeles (−16h), Singapore (−1h), Mumbai (−3.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
indonesia
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
WIT
IANA Zone
Asia/Jayapura
UTC Offset
UTC+09:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
London
-8h
New York
-13h
Los Angeles
-16h
Dubai
-5h
Singapore
-1h
Tokyo
+0h
Sydney
+1h
São Paulo
-12h
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 Ambon.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Ambon: closest hubs Singapore (~2,765 km), Sydney (~4,116 km), Tokyo (~4,538 km); farthest indexed hub São Paulo (~16,934 km).
Ambon sits inside Indonesia — the South-Eastern Asia subregion, capital Jakarta, languages Indonesian, currency IDR (Rp).
Closest indexed cities to Ambon: Sorong (464 km), Ternate (507 km), Dili (613 km), Likisá (628 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Ambon: Independence Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Indonesia.
Closest curated airport references from Ambon: UPG Makassar (969 km), SUB Surabaya (1752 km), SOC Surakarta (1974 km).
Indonesia pages need strong Lebaran and broader Muslim-calendar context because those observances reshape transport and availability nationally.
Sultan Hasanuddin International AirportUPG
Makassar · 969 km from Ambon
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 0m
Juanda International AirportSUB
Surabaya · 1752 km from Ambon
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 3h 0m
Adisoemarmo International AirportSOC
Surakarta · 1974 km from Ambon
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 3h 17m
Jenderal Ahmad Yani AirportSRG
Semarang · 2005 km from Ambon
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 3h 19m
Yogyakarta International AirportYIA
Yogyakarta · 2059 km from Ambon
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 3h 23m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
0 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:43 AM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:43 AM | -13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:43 AM | -16h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:43 PM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:43 PM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:43 PM | +0h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:43 PM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:43 AM | -12h | Check the overlap widget below |
Ambon is in the Asia/Jayapura timezone (WIT), with a UTC offset of +09:00.
Ambon does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+09:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Ambon is UTC+09:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Ambon, 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 · 19:43 GMT+9. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Ambon sits at 3.70°S, 128.18°E in Indonesia, with about 347.3K residents (rank #10 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Ambon is Singapore, about 2,765 km away as the crow flies.
Sorong is the closest indexed city, roughly 464 km from Ambon.
Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport (UPG) is the closest curated airport reference, about 969 km from Ambon.
Independence Day is the next upcoming holiday in Indonesia, on Monday, August 17, 2026.
Ambon uses Indonesian rupiah (IDR, symbol Rp) as the local currency of Indonesia.
The longest day of 2026 in Ambon falls on Jan 1 with about 12h 20m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 16 with 11h 54m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
Indonesia spans 3 IANA time zones in total; Ambon's canonical zone for this page is Asia/Jayapura.
In Ambon local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 22:00-06:00 (next day); London 17:00-01:00 (next day); Frankfurt 16:00-00:00 (next day); Dubai 14:00-22:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.