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- Hari Keputeraan Nabi Muhammad S.A.W.25 Aug 2026
- Hari Kebangsaan31 Aug 2026
- Hari Malaysia16 Sept 2026
- Deepavali8 Nov 2026
- Deepavali9 Nov 2026
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About Kuala Lumpur
Home to roughly 1,768,000 residents, Kuala Lumpur is a substantial regional city in Malaysia. Its terrain rests around 22 m of elevation.
The Asia/Kuala_Lumpur zone governs civic time in Kuala Lumpur; this identifier is the canonical reference used by every operating system on Earth. The equatorial, northern-hemisphere setting at 3.14° latitude defines its day-length swing across the year — long summer evenings and shorter winter days.
Malaysia's currency is MYR and its calling prefix is +60. Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent Kuala Lumpur's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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Questions about time in Kuala Lumpur
The current local time in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Kuala Lumpur uses the IANA time zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur, currently UTC+8.
Whether Kuala Lumpur observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Asia/Kuala_Lumpur) is the source of truth.
Kuala Lumpur is currently 12 hours ahead of New York.
Kuala Lumpur is currently 7 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Kuala Lumpur are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (3.1390, 101.6869).
Malaysia uses the MYR currency and the +60 international dialing code.
Kuala Lumpur sits at 3.1390° N, 101.6869° E, 22 m above sea level, in Malaysia.