Current Time in Makassar, Indonesia
Time and Sun Facts for Makassar
- Local time
- 7:07 am
- Date
- Sunday, 25 October 2026
- Time zone
Asia/Makassar- UTC offset
- UTC+8
- Daylight saving
- Not observed here — the offset is the same all year
- Sunrise
- 5:38 am
- Sunset
- 5:54 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 16 minutes
- Coordinates
- -5.15, 119.43
How Makassar Keeps Time
Makassar keeps WITA, UTC+8. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Makassar; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.
Makassar runs on the Asia/Makassar zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC+8 right now. There is no daylight saving here, so that offset holds all year and the difference to other places only changes when they move their own clocks.
The sun rises in Makassar at 5:38 am today and sets at 5:54 pm — 12 hours 16 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 11:46 am. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (-5.15, 119.43), so they shift a little every day of the year.
On the two solstices, Makassar has about 11 hours 49 minutes of daylight in June and 12 hours 25 minutes in December. The difference is about 36 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.
WITA is one of several zones in Indonesia, so a time quoted for the country as a whole is not necessarily the time here. Check the city rather than the country when it matters.
Makassar at a Glance
| Coordinates | -5.1500, 119.4300 |
|---|---|
| IANA time zone | Asia/Makassar |
| Current UTC offset | UTC+8 |
| Daylight saving | Not currently observed |
| Sunrise today | 5:38 am |
| Sunset today | 5:54 pm |
| Solar noon | 11:46 am |
| Daylight today | 12 hours 16 minutes |
| Straight-line distance to Jakarta | 1,397 km |
| Current clock difference vs Jakarta | +1 hour |
How Makassar Compares with Other Cities
Read the last column as the other city relative to Makassar. Where either place uses daylight saving, the gap changes for part of the year — the time difference calculator always shows today’s figure.
| City | Local time | Compared with Makassar |
|---|---|---|
| London | 12:07 am | 7 hours behind |
| New York | 7:07 pm | 12 hours behind |
| Los Angeles | 4:07 pm | 15 hours behind |
| Dubai | 3:07 am | 4 hours behind |
| Karachi | 4:07 am | 3 hours behind |
| Singapore | 7:07 am | same time |
| Tokyo | 8:07 am | 1 hour ahead |
| Sydney | 10:07 am | 3 hours ahead |
Nearby Listed Cities to Makassar
Distances are straight-line geographic distances between the coordinates used by the directory; road or rail distances will be longer.
| City | Approx. distance | Local time |
|---|---|---|
| Denpasar | 606 km | 7:07 am |
| Surabaya | 774 km | 6:07 am |
| Semarang | 1,017 km | 6:07 am |
| Yogyakarta | 1,044 km | 6:07 am |
| Bandung | 1,322 km | 6:07 am |
Other Cities in Indonesia
Indonesia keeps more than one zone, so these do not all read the same.
Questions People Ask
Is Makassar the time everywhere in Indonesia?
No. Indonesia currently has 3 distinct civil UTC offsets represented in the directory, so the country page separates the regions.
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