Manila

Philippines • Philippine Time

Time Zone

Manila uses Philippine Time (PHT), currently running at UTC+8 (year-round). The Philippines does not observe daylight saving time. PHT (UTC+8) is fixed year-round.

Business & Commerce

Manila, the capital of the Philippines, operates on Philippine Time (PHT, UTC+8) year-round, with no daylight saving time to track. Manila is one of the world's largest hubs for business process outsourcing (BPO) — customer service, technical support, and back-office operations for companies across North America and Europe are run around the clock from call centers and offices across Metro Manila, with many teams working overnight PHT shifts specifically to align with U.S. business hours. This makes PHT a genuinely 24-hour operational clock for the city in a way few other time zones are: while Manila's daytime hours sync with the rest of Asia, its graveyard-shift economy exists specifically to mirror the American workday. At UTC+8, Manila is eight hours ahead of London and typically thirteen hours ahead of New York in winter.