Time Zones| Zone areas | Time now | January 2026 | July 2026 | Largest cities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Majuro, Kwajalein | --:-- | UTC+12 | UTC+12 | Majuro, Dalap-Uliga-Dorrit |
How many times does the Marshall Islands have?
The IANA database lists 2 separate zone areas for the Marshall Islands. Grouped by the time they actually show through 2026, that makes one clock for the whole country, listed above. Every area is on UTC+12 in January.
None of them changes its clocks during the year.
Planning across the country
When you fix a call or a broadcast for people in several parts of the Marshall Islands, give the time with its zone, or use the converter to show every zone at once.
Where most people are
The towns of 15,000 people or more in the Marshall Islands hold about 46,000 people between them (GeoNames figures), and all of them read the same clock: UTC+12. The largest is Majuro.
Why several areas, if the clock is the same?
Every part of the Marshall Islands shows the same time today. The time zone database still keeps 2 separate entries, because at some point in the past these places kept different times, or changed their clocks on different dates. Software needs the separate entries to work out old dates correctly. For today and for the future, you can treat the country as one time zone.
Marshall Islands and the rest of the world
When it is 12:00 noon in Majuro, it is 5:30 am in India; 12:00 am in London in January and 1:00 am in July; 7:00 pm the previous day in New York in January and 8:00 pm the previous day in July. Other parts of the Marshall Islands are earlier or later than that by the amounts in the table at the top of this page.