Manila Time - Current Local Time & Timezone
Current local time in Manila, Philippines.
Manila Time Zone Guide
This live clock shows the current local time in Manila, Philippines using the timezone identifier Asia/Manila. The display updates every second and reflects the timezone rules provided by your browser, including daylight saving time changes when the region observes them.
Use this page when scheduling a call, planning travel, checking market hours, or confirming the local date before sending a message. If you need to watch several locations at once, return to the world clocks grid.
Planning with Manila Time
| Task | What to check |
|---|---|
| Schedule a meeting | Compare Manila business hours against your local time. |
| Book travel | Confirm whether arrival time falls on the same calendar date. |
| Join a livestream | Use the local event time and create a countdown to date. |
| Set a reminder | Use the alarm clock after converting the time to your timezone. |
About Manila Time
Manila uses Philippine Standard Time (PST), which is UTC+8 year-round. The Philippines abolished Daylight Saving Time in 1978 and has maintained a fixed UTC+8 since then. PST is shared with Beijing, Singapore, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, and Taipei, placing Manila within the world's most commercially significant timezone bloc.
The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) trades from 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM PST on weekdays. Manila is the world's foremost hub for business process outsourcing (BPO) and IT-enabled services: a substantial portion of the world's customer service operations, back-office processing, and IT support are handled by Filipino professionals on PST. This has made Philippine companies highly skilled at working outside standard local hours to serve US and UK clients.
For US businesses using Filipino BPO services, Manila is typically 13 hours ahead of Eastern Time in winter, meaning Manila's daytime shifts directly cover the US overnight. Filipino call centres and shared service centres operate night shifts on PST to serve American clients — a scheduling pattern that has been refined over decades and is deeply embedded in the Manila business model.
Manila Time Zone Facts
- UTC offset: UTC+8 (PST) all year; Philippines abolished DST in 1978.
- Manila is the world's largest BPO hub; PST night shifts routinely cover US Eastern daytime.
- PSE trading hours: 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM PST; shares UTC+8 with Singapore, Beijing, and Hong Kong.
- Manila is 13 hours ahead of New York in winter, making US and Philippine business days nearly inverted.