PHT to UTC
Coordinated Universal Time is 8 hours behind Philippine Time, all year round.
PHT to UTC conversion table
Every hour of the day, Philippine Time to Coordinated Universal Time. The gap never changes, so this table holds on every date.
| PHT | UTC |
|---|---|
| 12:00 AM | 4:00 PM −1 day |
| 1:00 AM | 5:00 PM −1 day |
| 2:00 AM | 6:00 PM −1 day |
| 3:00 AM | 7:00 PM −1 day |
| 4:00 AM | 8:00 PM −1 day |
| 5:00 AM | 9:00 PM −1 day |
| 6:00 AM | 10:00 PM −1 day |
| 7:00 AM | 11:00 PM −1 day |
| 8:00 AM | 12:00 AM |
| 9:00 AM | 1:00 AM |
| 10:00 AM | 2:00 AM |
| 11:00 AM | 3:00 AM |
| PHT | UTC |
|---|---|
| 12:00 PM | 4:00 AM |
| 1:00 PM | 5:00 AM |
| 2:00 PM | 6:00 AM |
| 3:00 PM | 7:00 AM |
| 4:00 PM | 8:00 AM |
| 5:00 PM | 9:00 AM |
| 6:00 PM | 10:00 AM |
| 7:00 PM | 11:00 AM |
| 8:00 PM | 12:00 PM |
| 9:00 PM | 1:00 PM |
| 10:00 PM | 2:00 PM |
| 11:00 PM | 3:00 PM |
Shared working hours
They do not overlap at all. A 09:00–17:00 working day in Philippine Time ends no time at all before the Coordinated Universal Time one begins, so any live call sits outside somebody's working hours.
The shortest reach is the edges: early morning in PHT against late evening in UTC, or the other way round.
When the difference changes
It doesn't. Coordinated Universal Time is 8 hours behind Philippine Time on every date of the year. Philippine Time runs at UTC+08:00; Coordinated Universal Time runs at UTC+00:00.
About Philippine Time
The Philippines is a fixed UTC+8. It is a heavily quoted zone in outsourcing schedules, which is why the pairs from it to North America are among the most searched on this site.
Cities on this clock: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Taipei, Hong Kong, Singapore.
Watch out: Philippine Standard Time is often written PST locally — the same letters as US Pacific Standard Time, which is sixteen hours behind it.
About Coordinated Universal Time
UTC never shifts. It is the reference every other zone is defined against, which is why logs, flight schedules and protocol timestamps use it. GMT is the same clock for every civil purpose, so a query for one is answered by the other.
Cities on this clock: Reykjavik, Accra, Abidjan, Dakar.
Watch out: GMT is also used loosely to mean "UK time", and those are not the same thing for seven months of the year — the United Kingdom moves to BST (UTC+1) while UTC stays put.
How the difference is worked out
Neither Philippine Time nor Coordinated Universal Time moves its clock relative to the other, so coordinated universal time is 8 hours behind philippine time is a rule rather than a fact about one particular year. The hour-by-hour table above holds on every date.
With both zones on their own standard time — daylight saving not in force anywhere — Coordinated Universal Time is 8 hours behind Philippine Time. That figure never changes; everything else on this page follows from it plus whichever clocks have moved.
Every figure here comes from the IANA time zone database via your browser's own Intl engine, using the zone ids Asia/Manila and UTC. Nothing is looked up on a server and nothing about your visit is recorded.
Is UTC ahead of or behind PHT?
Coordinated Universal Time is 8 hours behind Philippine Time, all year round. Philippine Time runs at UTC+08:00; Coordinated Universal Time runs at UTC+00:00. Because neither zone changes its clock, the gap never moves.
What time is 9 AM PHT in UTC?
9:00 AM PHT is 1:00 AM UTC.
When can Philippine Time and Coordinated Universal Time meet?
They do not overlap. A 09:00–17:00 working day in Philippine Time ends no time at all before the Coordinated Universal Time one begins, so a call has to sit outside someone's working hours — early morning in Philippine Time or late evening in Coordinated Universal Time is usually the shortest reach.
What does PHT stand for?
PHT is Philippine Time, also written PST (Philippines), PhST, Manila time. Philippine Standard Time is often written PST locally — the same letters as US Pacific Standard Time, which is sixteen hours behind it.