Ho Chi Minh City in numbers
- Coordinates
- 10.8230, 106.6300
- Population
- 14 002 598
- Region
- Lạng Sơn Province
- Country
- Vietnam, Asia
- Capital
- Hanoi — 1137 km away
Check the current time in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, as well as local sunrise, sunset, and weather information for practical planning.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Friday, 4 September 2026
UTC+7 · Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh
Local time in Ho Chi Minh City
UTC+7 · no daylight saving time
Sunrise 05:45 Solar noon 11:54 Sunset 18:03 Daylight 12 h 18 min Night 11 h 42 min Civil twilight 05:24 – 18:24
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Ho Chi Minh City follows Vietnam’s national time. Vietnam uses one official time zone and does not currently make seasonal clock changes, giving the city a consistent civil-time reference throughout the year.
The supplied page path places the city under Lạng Sơn Province, but that geographic classification is incorrect: Ho Chi Minh City is a centrally governed municipality in southern Vietnam, while Lạng Sơn Province is in northern Vietnam. Time-zone details remain the same because both use Vietnam’s national time.
Use Ho Chi Minh City as the location label in appointments. Do not infer the city’s province from this page path. Check whether an overseas participant changes clocks seasonally. Include the date when converting across midnight. A URL can take a wrong turn; the city clock does not have to follow it.
The sunrise and sunset entries correspond to the city’s actual location and the selected date. They help establish the daylight window for morning travel, evening plans, sightseeing, exercise, or outdoor photography.
Sunrise follows dawn, and sunset is followed by twilight. Natural light therefore changes gradually rather than switching at the listed minute. Buildings, cloud, rain, and an obstructed horizon can affect when direct sunlight is visible from a particular place.
Use date-specific information for future plans. Sunrise and sunset shift over the calendar, and a value copied from a previous visit may not match the day under consideration.
Because the path contains a geographic mismatch, verify that the displayed weather is actually associated with Ho Chi Minh City rather than Lạng Sơn Province. Weather is location-sensitive even when two places share the same official clock.
Confirm that the location name on the weather panel is Ho Chi Minh City. Read the report’s update time. Consider temperature, humidity, wind, cloud, and precipitation where shown. Check the forecast again before a weather-dependent activity.
A current observation is a snapshot, and conditions can vary across the city or change between updates. Sunrise and sunset calculations are also tied to coordinates, so location accuracy matters for daylight information as well as weather.
The safest interpretation is to treat the H1 city name as the intended subject while recognizing that the province segment needs correction. For scheduling within Vietnam, the mismatch does not change the time. For weather and solar data, it should not be ignored.