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9–17 in Ho Chi Minh City vs UTC
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- Ngày Nhà giáo Việt Nam20 Nov 2026
- Ngày hội Quốc phòng Toàn dân22 Dec 2026
- Tết Dương lịch1 Jan 2027
- Ông Táo chầu trời30 Jan 2027
- Ngày thành lập Đảng3 Feb 2027
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About Ho Chi Minh City
Home to roughly 8,993,082 residents, Ho Chi Minh City is a major metropolitan hub in Vietnam. Its terrain rests around 19 m of elevation.
The Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh zone governs civic time in Ho Chi Minh City; this identifier is the canonical reference used by every operating system on Earth. Sun behaviour here follows the tropical pattern of the northern hemisphere, with the steepest seasonal day-length swings around the equinoxes.
Locally, prices are quoted in VND and the international dialing code is +84. Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent Ho Chi Minh City's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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The current local time in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Ho Chi Minh City uses the IANA time zone Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, currently UTC+7.
Whether Ho Chi Minh City observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh) is the source of truth.
Ho Chi Minh City is currently 12 hours ahead of New York.
Ho Chi Minh City is currently 7 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Ho Chi Minh City are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (10.8231, 106.6297).
Vietnam uses the VND currency and the +84 international dialing code.
Ho Chi Minh City sits at 10.8231° N, 106.6297° E, 19 m above sea level, in Vietnam.