Bangladesh · IANA Asia/Dhaka
Asia/Dhaka is the time zone record for Bangladesh. The current offset is UTC+06:00, and the local wall clock is 1:31 AM on Fri. Use this page to confirm the live time, the underlying IANA identifier, nearby cities, and whether daylight saving can move the offset later in the year.
UTC offset
UTC+06:00
Local date
2026-06-19
DST status
Abolished
Asia/Dhaka is an IANA time zone identifier, which means it describes a real set of civil-time rules rather than just a fixed UTC offset. That distinction matters for scheduling: the offset shown today is UTC+06:00, but zones with seasonal clock changes can move by one hour when daylight saving starts or ends. Calendar apps, flight systems, and meeting schedulers should store Asia/Dhaka instead of a bare offset so future events follow the local rule.
Dhaka, Chattogram, Gazipur and Khulna are the largest curated cities Zeitful tracks in this zone. The zone is most useful when you need to answer practical questions such as whether a colleague is inside business hours, how a release time appears locally, or which offset to use in a cron schedule. On Zeitful, Asia/Dhaka pages combine the live clock with city context and DST notes so you do not have to jump between a map, a converter, and a legal time-change table.
Bangladesh is marked abolished in the 2026 DST tracker. Formerly observed DST; no current DST. For one-off conversions, today's offset is enough. For recurring meetings, payroll deadlines, transport bookings, or product launches, use the IANA zone name and let tzdata calculate each future date. That is the safest way to handle places where the January and July offsets differ.
Bangladesh is marked abolished in the 2026 DST tracker. Formerly observed DST; no current DST.