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Thailand time difference: the best time to message
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Most of the advice in the other guides comes back to one thing: write when she is awake and not at work. That needs two facts, what time it is in Thailand and what her day looks like. This page is where both live, and the other guides link here rather than repeat the sums.
Thai time never moves
Thailand is on Indochina Time, seven hours ahead of UTC (written UTC+7), and it does not change its clocks. There is no summer time in Thailand. What changes, twice a year, is your clock. That is why the gap to the UK is seven hours in winter and six in summer, and why a message that reached her at a good moment in March can land at a bad one in April without you doing anything different.
Every time on this page is labelled. "Thai time" means the clock on her phone in Pattaya.
The time difference, city by city
The right-hand column is the one that matters. It says what time it is where you are when it is 3pm in Pattaya, which is the middle of the best part of her day.
| Where you are | Your clock against Thai time | When it is 3pm Thai time |
|---|---|---|
| London, Dublin (winter, GMT) | 7 hours behind | 8am |
| London, Dublin (summer, BST) | 6 hours behind | 9am |
| Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm (winter, CET) | 6 hours behind | 9am |
| Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm (summer, CEST) | 5 hours behind | 10am |
| Dubai (no summer time) | 3 hours behind | noon |
| New York, Toronto (winter, EST) | 12 hours behind | 3am |
| New York, Toronto (summer, EDT) | 11 hours behind | 4am |
| Chicago (winter, CST) | 13 hours behind | 2am |
| Chicago (summer, CDT) | 12 hours behind | 3am |
| Los Angeles, Vancouver (winter, PST) | 15 hours behind | midnight |
| Los Angeles, Vancouver (summer, PDT) | 14 hours behind | 1am |
| Perth, Singapore (no summer time) | 1 hour ahead | 4pm |
| Tokyo, Seoul (no summer time) | 2 hours ahead | 5pm |
| Sydney, Melbourne (winter, AEST) | 3 hours ahead | 6pm |
| Sydney, Melbourne (summer, AEDT) | 4 hours ahead | 7pm |
| Auckland (winter, NZST) | 5 hours ahead | 8pm |
| Auckland (summer, NZDT) | 6 hours ahead | 9pm |
"Summer" means your own daylight saving period. In Europe and North America that is roughly late March to late October or early November. In Australia and New Zealand it runs the other way, roughly October to early April, so a Sydney reader's "summer" row is the one to use at Christmas.
What her day looks like
This part is a pattern, not a timetable, and every woman is different. What the women on this site tell us, and what the reply times across many conversations show, is broadly this:
- Late morning to midday, Thai time. She wakes. Work ended in the small hours, so this is her morning. She picks up her phone and reads what came in overnight.
- Early to late afternoon, Thai time. The best part of her day for messages. She is awake, not yet at work, eating, shopping, seeing friends. This is when most replies are written.
- Early evening, Thai time. Getting ready and heading to the bar. Shifts usually start somewhere in the evening, and the exact hour depends on her bar.
- Evening to the small hours, Thai time. At work. She may answer in a quiet moment, or she may not look at her phone until the end of the night.
- The small hours to late morning, Thai time. Asleep. A message sent now is read when she wakes.
So the window to aim for is roughly 1pm to 6pm Thai time (UTC+7). A message that arrives then is read then. A message that arrives at 4am Thai time is not a problem, it just waits for her lunchtime.
What that means where you live
- UK and Ireland. Your morning to early afternoon. In winter, 6am to 11am GMT is her 1pm to 6pm; in summer, 7am to noon BST. A message over breakfast or mid-morning is well timed; by your lunchtime she is getting ready for work.
- Central Europe. Your morning to lunchtime: 7am to noon CET in winter, 8am to 1pm CEST in summer.
- US East Coast. Her afternoon is your middle of the night (1am to 6am EST, 2am to 7am EDT), so there are two good habits. Write last thing before bed and she reads it when she wakes, late morning Thai time. Or write first thing when you get up and it reaches her in the late afternoon or early evening, before work.
- US West Coast. Your late evening. 10pm PST, or 11pm PDT, is 1pm Thai time, so writing before bed lands in the best part of her day.
- Eastern Australia. Your late afternoon and evening: 4pm to 9pm AEST in winter, 5pm to 10pm AEDT in summer. After work is her afternoon.
- Perth and Singapore. One hour ahead of her, so your afternoon is her afternoon.
Writing in both zones
When you make a plan across a time difference, write the time in both zones, every time. "I'll call at 8pm my time, 2am your time" is how you find out it is a bad idea before she does. "Saturday at 3pm Thai time, which is 9am for me" is a plan nobody can misread, even after translation. Dates cross midnight too: Monday evening in New York is already Tuesday morning in Pattaya.
On this site, Tonight shows the time in Pattaya at the top and marks which bars are open now, so you can see at a glance whether she is likely to be at work. The table above is for everything else: a call, a birthday, a flight time.
The short version
Thailand is UTC+7 all year. Aim for her afternoon, roughly 1pm to 6pm Thai time. From Europe that is your morning; from the US East Coast it is before bed or first thing; from the West Coast it is your late evening; from eastern Australia it is after work. If a reply takes until her next afternoon, the clock is usually the reason.
Want to write to her in your own language? Read How it works, then Start free. Her replies are always free to read.