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Sa Kaeo, Thailand

Sa Kaeo uses Thailand’s national time, UTC+7, all year. Clocks do not change seasonally, but dawn and sunrise occur at different local times as the date and position within the province change.

Sa Kaeo, Thailand

Friday, 4 September 2026

UTC+7 · Asia/Bangkok

Time and sun data for Sa Kaeo — the largest city of Sa Kaeo

The sun in Sa Kaeo

Sunrise 06:02 Solar noon 12:12 Sunset 18:23 Daylight 12 h 21 min Night 11 h 39 min Civil twilight 05:40 – 18:45

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Current time in Sa Kaeo, Thailand

The clock in Sa Kaeo matches Bangkok, Chiang Mai, and every other Thai province. The official civil-time convention is Indochina Time, represented in digital services by Asia/Bangkok. There is no daylight saving clock change. Visitors crossing the international border should still confirm the time used at their next destination rather than assuming that a nearby place follows the same rules. A border may involve paperwork, but Sa Kaeo’s clocks require no paperwork at all.

One clock for an eastern border province

Sa Kaeo lies in eastern Thailand and reaches the frontier with Cambodia. Its geography makes local time particularly relevant for road journeys, border arrangements, hotel check-ins, and transport connections. All parts of the Thai province nevertheless share one fixed offset.

The main urban centres commonly used when searching for local time include: Sa Kaeo, the provincial capital Aranyaprathet, an important town near the Cambodian border Wang Nam Yen, a town and district centre

Watthana Nakhon, a district centre between the capital area and the frontier Khlong Hat, serving the southeastern part of the province “Largest city” can mean the legal municipality, the continuously built-up area, or the wider district. Those boundaries produce different rankings. Sa Kaeo, Aranyaprathet, and Wang Nam Yen are useful reference points without treating unlike administrative areas as directly comparable.

Understanding sunrise in Sa Kaeo

Sunrise listings should always be read with a date and location attached. The Sun does not rise at a single permanent time, and the eastern and western parts of the province do not have precisely identical astronomical timings.

Aranyaprathet and Sa Kaeo city are close enough to share the same civil time but far enough apart for calculated sunrise minutes to differ. That is normal: a time zone standardizes clocks across an area, whereas sunrise depends on longitude, latitude, and date.

For a reliable morning plan: Select the exact town or the nearest available location. Verify that the forecast date matches the day of travel. Distinguish sunrise from first light or civil-twilight time.

Arrive early if border travel, photography, or outdoor work has a fixed deadline. Cloud cover can hide the solar disc and make dawn look later. It does not change the computed sunrise, which describes the Sun’s position relative to the horizon under a standard astronomical definition.

Questions and answers

How far ahead of UTC is Sa Kaeo?
Sa Kaeo is seven hours ahead of UTC.
Does Aranyaprathet have a different Thai time zone?
No. Aranyaprathet and the rest of Sa Kaeo Province use UTC+7.
Why does the sunrise time change if the clock offset does not?
The offset is a civil convention. Sunrise follows the seasonal position of the Sun and the observer’s coordinates.
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