Indexed entity
Johor Bahru is the johor-bahru-MY record in Malaysia: country slug malaysia, city slug johor-bahru, ISO MY, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur.
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Live local time
Johor Bahru, Malaysia
06:45:14 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
Quick answer
It is currently 06:45:14 PM (MYT, UTC+08:00) in Johor Bahru, Malaysia — Afternoon.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
30°C
Drizzle
3-day forecast
Tue
33°C
25°C
Wed
31°C
24°C
52% rain
Thu
32°C
24°C
64% rain
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Malaysian Ringgit
1 USD = 3.968 MYR
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
06:56 AM
Sunset
07:08 PM
Day length
12h 12m
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 Johor Bahru, 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
06:45:14 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
MYT
Asia/Kuala_Lumpur · UTC+08:00
Next holiday
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Johor Bahru right now
Nearest airport
KUL
Kuala Lumpur International Airport · 268 km
Indexed airports
1
Curated airport references available for Malaysia
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 18:45 GMT+8
No reference-city overlap right now
Johor Bahru is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC+08:00
Zone label
GMT+8
London
11:45 AM / -7h
New York
06:45 AM / -12h
Los Angeles
03:45 AM / -15h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
KUL Sepang, 268 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:56 AM to 07:08 PM, with solar noon around 01:02 PM and total daylight of 12h 12m.
Mapped location
1.47°N, 103.76°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:45 AM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:45 AM / -12h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:45 AM / -15h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:45 PM / -4h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:45 PM / +0h
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 Johor Bahru.
KUL · Kuala Lumpur International Airport
Sepang
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Asia/Kuala_Lumpur for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+08:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+08:00.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps Johor Bahru right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest curated airport reference: KUL Sepang, 268 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Asia/Kuala_Lumpur. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Johor Bahru has no near-term DST change or holiday interruption in view, but future rules can still be revised by local authorities.
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 Johor Bahru.
Canonical route
/time/malaysia/johor-bahru/
Catalog identity
johor-bahru-MY · MY · Asia
Coordinate cell
1.47°N, 103.76°E · lat 1.466 · lon 103.758 · cell 147:10376
Population record
858,118 residents · country rank 2
Zone snapshot
Asia/Kuala_Lumpur · GMT+8 · UTC+08:00
January / July offsets
UTC+08:00 / UTC+08:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Singapore, Singapore · 22 km
Nearest world hub
Singapore · 14 km
Closest airport references
KUL Sepang 268 km
Zone peer roster
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · Kampung Baru Subang, Malaysia · Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Johor Bahru: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Johor Bahru is the johor-bahru-MY record in Malaysia: country slug malaysia, city slug johor-bahru, ISO MY, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur.
1.47°N, 103.76°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 1 and longitude band 103; exact decimal pair 1.46550, 103.75780.
Malaysia: official name Malaysia; capital Kuala Lumpur; region Asia; subregion South-Eastern Asia; country population 34,231,700; area 330,803 km²; languages English, Malay; currencies MYR Malaysian ringgit. This is the country layer behind the Johor Bahru clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Malaysia: Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. A federal constitutional monarchy, it consists of 13 states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions: Peninsular Malaysia on Mainland Southeast Asia and East Malaysia on the island of Borneo. Peninsular Malaysia shares land and maritime borders with Thailand, as well as maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, and Indonesia; East Malaysia shares land borders with Brunei and Indonesia, and maritime borders with the Philippines and Vietnam. Kuala Lumpur is the country's national capital, largest city, and the seat of the legislative branch of the federal government, while Putrajaya is the federal administrative capital, representing the seat of both the executive branch and the judicial branch of the federal government. With a population of over 34 million, it is the world's 42nd-most populous country. Source: Wikipedia.
Singapore [singapore-SG, SG, Asia/Singapore, 22 km]; Tampines Estate [tampines-estate-SG, SG, Asia/Singapore, 24 km]; Ulu Bedok [ulu-bedok-SG, SG, Asia/Singapore, 24 km]; Bedok New Town [bedok-new-town-SG, SG, Asia/Singapore, 26 km]; Kuala Lumpur [kuala-lumpur-MY, MY, Asia/Kuala_Lumpur, 296 km]; Petaling Jaya [petaling-jaya-MY, MY, Asia/Kuala_Lumpur, 301 km]; Kampung Baru Subang [kampung-baru-subang-MY, MY, Asia/Kuala_Lumpur, 310 km]; Jakarta [jakarta-ID, ID, Asia/Jakarta, 920 km]
Johor Bahru is part of this indexed country cluster: Kuala Lumpur [kuala-lumpur-MY, Asia/Kuala_Lumpur, pop 1,453,975]; Johor Bahru [johor-bahru-MY, Asia/Kuala_Lumpur, pop 858,118]; Kampung Baru Subang [kampung-baru-subang-MY, Asia/Kuala_Lumpur, pop 833,571]; Petaling Jaya [petaling-jaya-MY, Asia/Kuala_Lumpur, pop 807,879].
Singapore 14 km; Tokyo 5,306 km; Dubai 5,825 km; Sydney 6,320 km; London 10,834 km; Los Angeles 14,117 km; New York 15,320 km; São Paulo 15,990 km
KUL Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang [MY, 268 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include KUL Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang [MY].
Johor Bahru renders Jun 2, 2026 · 18:45 GMT+8; GMT+8 at UTC+08:00; January UTC+08:00; July UTC+08:00; next holiday not currently surfaced.
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 Johor Bahru.
Johor Bahru is a manual-dossier city; rank #2 of 4 retained Malaysia city pages. The route is /time/malaysia/johor-bahru/ and the city id is johor-bahru-MY.
Johor Bahru 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.
Johor Bahru is pinned at 1.47°N, 103.76°E; Singapore (22 km); Singapore (14 km).
Asia/Kuala_Lumpur resolves to stable UTC+08:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Malaysia.
KUL Kuala Lumpur International Airport (268 km) · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 1 country airport reference · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Johor Bahru 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.
Johor Bahru: Johor Bahru (JB) is the capital city of the Malaysian state of Johor. It is the core city of Johor Bahru District, Malaysia's second-largest district by population and economy. Covering an area of 373.18 km2, Johor Bahru had a population of 858,118 people in 2020, making it the nation's largest state capital city by population. It is located at the southern end of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the city-state of Singapore.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+08:00) is constant year-round.
Johor Bahru is listed in the dataset snapshot as 8 hours ahead of UTC (offset +08:00). 7 hours ahead of London, 1 hour behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 103.76°, Johor Bahru's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 5 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.
Johor Bahru sits at 1.47°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Johor Bahru sits at 1.47°N, 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
May 23 (12h 12m)
Shortest day
Jan 1 (12h 2m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
0h 10m
See the full daylight curve for Johor Bahru at /sun/johor-bahru/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Johor Bahru local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Johor Bahru |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 21:00 - 05:00 (next day) |
| London | Europe/London | 16:00 - 00:00 (next day) |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 15:00 - 23:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 13:00 - 21:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 11:30 - 19:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 08:00 - 16:00 |
Johor Bahru is the capital of Malaysia's southernmost state of Johor and, with around 858,000 residents recorded in the 2020 census, the country's most populous state capital. It sits at the tip of the Malay Peninsula directly opposite Singapore, linked across the Strait of Johor by the 1923-built Johor–Singapore Causeway and the Second Link bridge to Tuas. The pair of crossings together carry one of the busiest land borders in the world, with hundreds of thousands of daily commuters, shoppers and freight movements supporting deeply intertwined labour and supply-chain economies. The city is the anchor of the Iskandar Malaysia development corridor and a regional centre for manufacturing, logistics and tourism. Johor Bahru observes Malaysia Standard Time (MYT, UTC+8) year-round with no daylight saving; the IANA zone is Asia/Kuala_Lumpur.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-23 (research).
Reference fields include Johor Bahru's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 06:45:14 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Johor Bahru (UTC+08:00, MYT).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:56 AM to 07:08 PM
Day length 12h 12m · Solar noon 01:02 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Johor Bahru local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
858.1K
Coordinates
1.47, 103.76
Timezone
Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
Indexed airports
1
Capital
Kuala Lumpur
Languages
English, Malay
Currency
MYR (RM)
Country area
330,803 km²
Johor Bahru, Malaysia (population rank #2 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Kuala_Lumpur (MYT, UTC+08:00); population ~858.1K.
Coordinates: 1.47°N, 103.76°E. Equatorial Hemisphere deep tropics, ~163 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:56 AM and sets around 07:08 PM in Johor Bahru — about 12h 12m of daylight. Malaysia stays on standard time here, so UTC+08:00 is stable through the year.
Singapore (22 km from Johor Bahru) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Malaysia.
Johor Bahru is indexed as a Asia city in the MY country record, using Asia/Kuala_Lumpur as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/malaysia/johor-bahru/.
Location context: 1.47°N, 103.76°E; population 858,118; nearest indexed city Singapore is about 22 km away; closest reference hub is Singapore, about 14 km away.
Country planning context: capital Kuala Lumpur; subregion South-Eastern Asia; languages English, Malay; currency MYR (RM); area 330,803 km²; 1 curated airport references; no upcoming holiday signal currently in view.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+08:00) is constant year-round.
Johor Bahru is listed in the dataset snapshot as 8 hours ahead of UTC (offset +08:00). 7 hours ahead of London, 1 hour behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 103.76°, Johor Bahru's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 5 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.
Johor Bahru sits at 1.47°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Sizeable city with about 858 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Johor Bahru: Kuala Lumpur (same time), San Francisco (−15h), Los Angeles (−15h), Singapore (same time), Mumbai (−2.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
malaysia
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
MYT
IANA Zone
Asia/Kuala Lumpur
UTC Offset
UTC+08:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
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 Johor Bahru.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Johor Bahru: closest hubs Singapore (~14 km), Tokyo (~5,306 km), Dubai (~5,825 km); farthest indexed hub São Paulo (~15,990 km).
Johor Bahru sits inside Malaysia — the South-Eastern Asia subregion, capital Kuala Lumpur, languages English, Malay, currency MYR (RM).
Closest indexed cities to Johor Bahru: Singapore (22 km), Tampines Estate (24 km), Ulu Bedok (24 km), Bedok New Town (26 km).
Closest curated airport references from Johor Bahru: KUL Sepang (268 km).
Kuala Lumpur International AirportKUL
Sepang · 268 km from Johor Bahru
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 6m
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 | 11:45 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:45 AM | -12h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:45 AM | -15h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:45 PM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:45 PM | +0h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:45 PM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:45 PM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:45 AM | -11h | Check the overlap widget below |
Singapore
Singapore
Approx. 22 km away
Tampines Estate
Singapore
Approx. 24 km away
Ulu Bedok
Singapore
Approx. 24 km away
Bedok New Town
Singapore
Approx. 26 km away
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Approx. 296 km away
Petaling Jaya
Malaysia
Approx. 301 km away
Kampung Baru Subang
Malaysia
Approx. 310 km away
Jakarta
Indonesia
Approx. 920 km away
Johor Bahru is in the Asia/Kuala_Lumpur timezone (MYT), with a UTC offset of +08:00.
Johor Bahru does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+08:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Johor Bahru is UTC+08:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Johor Bahru, 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 · 18:45 GMT+8. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Johor Bahru sits at 1.47°N, 103.76°E in Malaysia, with about 858.1K residents (rank #2 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Johor Bahru is Singapore, about 14 km away as the crow flies.
Singapore is the closest indexed city, roughly 22 km from Johor Bahru.
Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL) is the closest curated airport reference, about 268 km from Johor Bahru.
Johor Bahru uses Malaysian ringgit (MYR, symbol RM) as the local currency of Malaysia.
The longest day of 2026 in Johor Bahru falls on May 23 with about 12h 12m of daylight. The shortest is Jan 1 with 12h 2m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
In Johor Bahru local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 21:00-05:00 (next day); London 16:00-00:00 (next day); Frankfurt 15:00-23:00; Dubai 13:00-21:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.