Current Time in Palembang, Indonesia
Time and Sun Facts for Palembang
- Local time
- 5:47 am
- Date
- Sunday, 25 October 2026
- Time zone
Asia/Jakarta- UTC offset
- UTC+7
- Daylight saving
- Not observed here — the offset is the same all year
- Sunrise
- 5:39 am
- Sunset
- 5:51 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 12 minutes
- Coordinates
- -2.98, 104.76
How Palembang Keeps Time
Palembang keeps WIB, UTC+7. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Palembang; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.
Palembang runs on the Asia/Jakarta zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC+7 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 Palembang at 5:39 am today and sets at 5:51 pm — 12 hours 12 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 11:45 am. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (-2.98, 104.76), so they shift a little every day of the year.
Palembang has little seasonal change in day length: the June and December solstice daylight totals differ by about 21 minutes.
WIB 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.
Palembang at a Glance
| Coordinates | -2.9800, 104.7600 |
|---|---|
| IANA time zone | Asia/Jakarta |
| Current UTC offset | UTC+7 |
| Daylight saving | Not currently observed |
| Sunrise today | 5:39 am |
| Sunset today | 5:51 pm |
| Solar noon | 11:45 am |
| Daylight today | 12 hours 12 minutes |
| Straight-line distance to Jakarta | 427 km |
| Current clock difference vs Jakarta | Same civil time |
How Palembang Compares with Other Cities
Read the last column as the other city relative to Palembang. 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 Palembang |
|---|---|---|
| London | 11:47 pm | 6 hours behind |
| New York | 6:47 pm | 11 hours behind |
| Los Angeles | 3:47 pm | 14 hours behind |
| Dubai | 2:47 am | 3 hours behind |
| Karachi | 3:47 am | 2 hours behind |
| Singapore | 6:47 am | 1 hour ahead |
| Tokyo | 7:47 am | 2 hours ahead |
| Sydney | 9:47 am | 4 hours ahead |
Nearby Listed Cities to Palembang
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jakarta | 427 km | 5:47 am |
| Bandung | 540 km | 5:47 am |
| Semarang | 768 km | 5:47 am |
| Yogyakarta | 819 km | 5:47 am |
| Medan | 996 km | 5:47 am |
Other Cities in Indonesia
Indonesia keeps more than one zone, so these do not all read the same.
Questions People Ask
Is Palembang 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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