Indexed entity
Ho Chi Minh City is the ho-chi-minh-city-VN record in Vietnam: country slug vietnam, city slug ho-chi-minh-city, ISO VN, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh.
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Live local time
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
05:47:35 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh
Quick answer
It is currently 05:47:35 PM (ICT, UTC+07:00) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam — Afternoon.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
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Wed
35°C
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Thu
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Ngày Giải phóng miền Nam, thống nhất đất nước (Reunification Day)
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PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Vietnamese Dong
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Today
Sunrise
05:29 AM
Sunset
06:13 PM
Day length
12h 43m
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 Ho Chi Minh City, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:47 AM UTC.
Current local time
05:47:35 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
ICT
Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh · UTC+07:00
Next holiday
National Day
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Ho Chi Minh City right now
Nearest airport
SGN
Tan Son Nhat International Airport · 2 km
Indexed airports
6
Curated airport references available for Vietnam
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 17:47 GMT+7
No reference-city overlap right now
Ho Chi Minh City is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC+07:00
Zone label
GMT+7
London
11:47 AM / -6h
New York
06:47 AM / -11h
Los Angeles
03:47 AM / -14h
Schedule risk
National Day on Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Travel cue
SGN Ho Chi Minh City, 2 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:29 AM to 06:13 PM, with solar noon around 11:51 AM and total daylight of 12h 44m.
Mapped location
10.82°N, 106.63°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:47 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:47 AM / -11h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:47 AM / -14h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:47 PM / -3h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:47 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 Ho Chi Minh City.
SGN · Tan Son Nhat International Airport
Ho Chi Minh City
LTH · Long Thanh International Airport (Under Construction)
Ho Chi Minh City (Long Thanh)
VCA · Can Tho International Airport
Can Tho
DAD · Da Nang International Airport
Da Nang
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+07:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+07:00.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps Ho Chi Minh City right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
National Day on Wednesday, September 2, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: SGN Ho Chi Minh City, 2 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Ho Chi Minh City has no near-term DST change in view, but National 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 Ho Chi Minh City.
Canonical route
/time/vietnam/ho-chi-minh-city/
Catalog identity
ho-chi-minh-city-VN · VN · Asia
Coordinate cell
10.82°N, 106.63°E · lat 10.823 · lon 106.630 · cell 1082:10663
Population record
14,002,598 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh · GMT+7 · UTC+07:00
January / July offsets
UTC+07:00 / UTC+07:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Biên Hòa, Vietnam · 25 km
Nearest world hub
Singapore · 1,098 km
Closest airport references
SGN Ho Chi Minh City 2 km · LTH Ho Chi Minh City (Long Thanh) 45 km · VCA Can Tho 130 km · DAD Da Nang 605 km
Zone peer roster
Cần Thơ, Vietnam · Da Nang, Vietnam · Biên Hòa, Vietnam
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Ho Chi Minh City: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Ho Chi Minh City is the ho-chi-minh-city-VN record in Vietnam: country slug vietnam, city slug ho-chi-minh-city, ISO VN, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh.
10.82°N, 106.63°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 10 and longitude band 106; exact decimal pair 10.82302, 106.62965.
Vietnam: official name Socialist Republic of Vietnam; capital Hanoi; region Asia; subregion South-Eastern Asia; country population 101,343,800; area 331,212 km²; languages Vietnamese; currencies VND Vietnamese đồng. This is the country layer behind the Ho Chi Minh City clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Vietnam: Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of Mainland Southeast Asia. With an area of about 331,000 square kilometres and a population of over 102 million, it is the world's 16th-most populous country. One of two communist states in Southeast Asia, Vietnam is bordered by China to the north, and Laos and Cambodia to the west; it lies along the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest and the South China Sea to the east, where it has shared and disputed maritime borders with other countries. Its capital is Hanoi, while its largest city is Ho Chi Minh City. Source: Wikipedia.
Biên Hòa [bien-hoa-VN, VN, Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, 25 km]; Cần Thơ [can-tho-VN, VN, Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, 127 km]; Takeo [takeo-KH, KH, Asia/Phnom_Penh, 202 km]; Phnom Penh [phnom-penh-KH, KH, Asia/Phnom_Penh, 204 km]; Siem Reap [siem-reap-KH, KH, Asia/Phnom_Penh, 413 km]; Battambang [battambang-KH, KH, Asia/Phnom_Penh, 451 km]; Pakse [pakse-LA, LA, Asia/Vientiane, 486 km]; Da Nang [da-nang-VN, VN, Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, 608 km]
Ho Chi Minh City is part of this indexed country cluster: Ho Chi Minh City [ho-chi-minh-city-VN, Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, pop 14,002,598]; Cần Thơ [can-tho-VN, Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, pop 1,507,187]; Da Nang [da-nang-VN, Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, pop 1,276,000]; Biên Hòa [bien-hoa-VN, Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, pop 1,272,235].
Singapore 1,098 km; Tokyo 4,323 km; Dubai 5,625 km; Sydney 6,845 km; London 10,194 km; Los Angeles 13,136 km; New York 14,284 km; São Paulo 16,851 km
SGN Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City [VN, 2 km]; LTH Long Thanh International Airport (Under Construction) in Ho Chi Minh City (Long Thanh) [VN, 45 km]; VCA Can Tho International Airport in Can Tho [VN, 130 km]; DAD Da Nang International Airport in Da Nang [VN, 605 km]; HPH Cat Bi International Airport in Haiphong (Hai An) [VN, 1111 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include DAD Da Nang International Airport in Da Nang [VN]; HAN Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi (Soc Son) [VN]; HPH Cat Bi International Airport in Haiphong (Hai An) [VN]; LTH Long Thanh International Airport (Under Construction) in Ho Chi Minh City (Long Thanh) [VN]; SGN Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City [VN]; VCA Can Tho International Airport in Can Tho [VN].
Ho Chi Minh City renders Jun 2, 2026 · 17:47 GMT+7; GMT+7 at UTC+07:00; January UTC+07:00; July UTC+07:00; next holiday National Day on 2026-09-02.
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 Ho Chi Minh City.
Ho Chi Minh City is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 4 retained Vietnam city pages. The route is /time/vietnam/ho-chi-minh-city/ and the city id is ho-chi-minh-city-VN.
Ho Chi Minh City 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.
Ho Chi Minh City is pinned at 10.82°N, 106.63°E; Biên Hòa (25 km); Singapore (1,098 km).
Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh resolves to stable UTC+07:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Vietnam.
SGN Tan Son Nhat International Airport (2 km) · National Day (Wednesday, September 2, 2026) · 6 country airport references · 4 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Ho Chi Minh City 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.
Ho Chi Minh City: Ho Chi Minh City, also known as Saigon, is the most populous municipality of Vietnam, with a population of more than 14 million in 2025. Its geography is defined by rivers and canals, of which the largest is Saigon River. As the largest financial centre in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City has the largest gross regional domestic product out of all Vietnam provinces and municipalities, contributing around a quarter of the country's total GDP. It is the busiest international transport hub in Vietnam, with Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport accounting for nearly half of all international arrivals to Vietnam, and the Port of Saigon among the busiest container ports in Southeast Asia. Ho Chi Minh City has historic landmarks and modern landmarks, including the Independence Palace, Bitexco Financial Tower, Landmark 81 Tower, the War Remnants Museum, and Bến Thành Market. It is known for its alleys and nightlife, including the Phạm Ngũ Lão Ward and Bùi Viện street.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+07:00) is constant year-round.
Ho Chi Minh City is listed in the dataset snapshot as 7 hours ahead of UTC (offset +07:00). 6 hours ahead of London, 2 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 106.63°, Ho Chi Minh City's mean solar noon falls about 7 minutes before civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run earlier on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Ho Chi Minh City sits at 10.82°N, in the northern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Ho Chi Minh City sits at 10.82°N, in the northern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
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 9 (12h 45m)
Shortest day
Dec 18 (11h 29m)
Year-round average
12h 8m
Annual swing
1h 16m
See the full daylight curve for Ho Chi Minh City at /sun/ho-chi-minh-city/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Ho Chi Minh City local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Ho Chi Minh City |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 20:00 - 04:00 (next day) |
| London | Europe/London | 15:00 - 23:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 14:00 - 22:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 12:00 - 20:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 10:30 - 18:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 07:00 - 15:00 |
Public holidays in 2026
4
Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) is the most populous city in Vietnam, with about 9 million residents in the city proper and roughly 14 million in the wider metropolitan area. Indochina Time (ICT, UTC+7) is fixed year-round with no daylight saving. Renamed in 1976 after the death of Hồ Chí Minh and the reunification of North and South Vietnam, the city remains the country's primary economic engine, generating roughly a quarter of Vietnam's GDP despite holding under 10 percent of the population. Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport is Vietnam's busiest airport, and the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE), founded in 2000, is the country's primary equity venue. The Reunification Palace and the War Remnants Museum are central landmarks of the city's post-1975 historical identity.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-11 (manual).
Reference fields include Ho Chi Minh City's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 05:47:35 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Ho Chi Minh City (UTC+07:00, ICT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:29 AM to 06:13 PM
Day length 12h 44m · Solar noon 11:51 AM
Next country holiday
National Day
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Ho Chi Minh City 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
14M
Coordinates
10.82, 106.63
Timezone
Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh
Indexed airports
6
Capital
Hanoi
Languages
Vietnamese
Currency
VND (₫)
Country area
331,212 km²
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh (ICT, UTC+07:00); population ~14M.
Coordinates: 10.82°N, 106.63°E. Northern Hemisphere tropics, ~1201 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:29 AM and sets around 06:13 PM in Ho Chi Minh City — about 12h 44m of daylight. Vietnam stays on standard time here, so UTC+07:00 is stable through the year.
Biên Hòa (25 km from Ho Chi Minh City) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 6 curated airport pages indexed for Vietnam.
Next national holiday: National Day, 2026-09-02.
Ho Chi Minh City is indexed as a Asia city in the VN country record, using Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/vietnam/ho-chi-minh-city/.
Location context: 10.82°N, 106.63°E; population 14,002,598; nearest indexed city Biên Hòa is about 25 km away; closest reference hub is Singapore, about 1,098 km away.
Country planning context: capital Hanoi; subregion South-Eastern Asia; languages Vietnamese; currency VND (₫); area 331,212 km²; 6 curated airport references; next holiday National Day on 2026-09-02.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+07:00) is constant year-round.
Ho Chi Minh City is listed in the dataset snapshot as 7 hours ahead of UTC (offset +07:00). 6 hours ahead of London, 2 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 106.63°, Ho Chi Minh City's mean solar noon falls about 7 minutes before civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run earlier on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Ho Chi Minh City sits at 10.82°N, in the northern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Megacity with roughly 14 million urban residents — among the largest metropolitan areas in the world.
Related clock anchors for Ho Chi Minh City: Cần Thơ (same time), San Francisco (−14h), Los Angeles (−14h), Lagos (−6h), Bengaluru (−1.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
vietnam
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
ICT
IANA Zone
Asia/Ho Chi Minh
UTC Offset
UTC+07:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
London
-6h
New York
-11h
Los Angeles
-14h
Dubai
-3h
Singapore
+1h
Tokyo
+2h
Sydney
+3h
São Paulo
-10h
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 Ho Chi Minh City.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Ho Chi Minh City: closest hubs Singapore (~1,098 km), Tokyo (~4,323 km), Dubai (~5,625 km); farthest indexed hub São Paulo (~16,851 km).
Ho Chi Minh City sits inside Vietnam — the South-Eastern Asia subregion, capital Hanoi, languages Vietnamese, currency VND (₫).
Closest indexed cities to Ho Chi Minh City: Biên Hòa (25 km), Cần Thơ (127 km), Takeo (202 km), Phnom Penh (204 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Ho Chi Minh City: National Day, New Year's Day, Reunification Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Vietnam.
Closest curated airport references from Ho Chi Minh City: SGN Ho Chi Minh City (2 km), LTH Ho Chi Minh City (Long Thanh) (45 km), VCA Can Tho (130 km).
Tan Son Nhat International AirportSGN
Ho Chi Minh City · 2 km from Ho Chi Minh City
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 45m
Long Thanh International Airport (Under Construction)LTH
Ho Chi Minh City (Long Thanh) · 45 km from Ho Chi Minh City
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 48m
Can Tho International AirportVCA
Can Tho · 130 km from Ho Chi Minh City
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 55m
Da Nang International AirportDAD
Da Nang · 605 km from Ho Chi Minh City
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 32m
Cat Bi International AirportHPH
Haiphong (Hai An) · 1111 km from Ho Chi Minh City
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 10m
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 | 11:47 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:47 AM | -11h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:47 AM | -14h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:47 PM | -3h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:47 PM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:47 PM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:47 PM | +3h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:47 AM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
Tan Son Nhat International AirportSGN
Ho Chi Minh City · 2 km away
Long Thanh International Airport (Under Construction)LTH
Ho Chi Minh City (Long Thanh) · 45 km away
Can Tho International AirportVCA
Can Tho · 130 km away
Da Nang International AirportDAD
Da Nang · 605 km away
Cat Bi International AirportHPH
Haiphong (Hai An) · 1111 km away
Ho Chi Minh City is in the Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh timezone (ICT), with a UTC offset of +07:00.
Ho Chi Minh City does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+07:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Ho Chi Minh City is UTC+07:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Ho Chi Minh City, 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 · 17:47 GMT+7. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Ho Chi Minh City sits at 10.82°N, 106.63°E in Vietnam, with about 14M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Ho Chi Minh City is Singapore, about 1,098 km away as the crow flies.
Biên Hòa is the closest indexed city, roughly 25 km from Ho Chi Minh City.
Tan Son Nhat International Airport (SGN) is the closest curated airport reference, about 2 km from Ho Chi Minh City.
National Day is the next upcoming holiday in Vietnam, on Wednesday, September 2, 2026.
Ho Chi Minh City uses Vietnamese đồng (VND, symbol ₫) as the local currency of Vietnam.
The longest day of 2026 in Ho Chi Minh City falls on Jun 9 with about 12h 45m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 18 with 11h 29m; the year-round average is 12h 8m.
In Ho Chi Minh City local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 20:00-04:00 (next day); London 15:00-23:00; Frankfurt 14:00-22:00; Dubai 12:00-20:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.