Time Zones| Zone areas | Time now | January 2026 | July 2026 | Largest cities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chuuk | --:-- | UTC+10 | UTC+10 | no large city |
| Pohnpei, Kosrae | --:-- | UTC+11 | UTC+11 | Palikir |
How many times does Micronesia have?
The IANA database lists 3 separate zone areas for Micronesia. Grouped by the time they actually show through 2026, that makes 2 different clocks, listed above. The offsets in use run from UTC+10 to UTC+11 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 Micronesia, give the time with its zone, or use the converter to show every zone at once.
Where most people are
Measured by the people living in towns of 15,000 or more (GeoNames figures), the busiest clock in Micronesia is the one kept in Palikir, UTC+11 in January: about 6,942 people, or nearly all of the total across all the zone areas. The other clock, Chuuk (UTC+10), covers only places with no town that large.
A worked example
When it is 9:00 am in Palikir in January, it is 8:00 am in Chuuk.
The widest gap inside the country
The two clocks that are farthest apart differ by 1 hour in January, and by the same amount in July.
Micronesia and the rest of the world
When it is 12:00 noon in Palikir, it is 6:30 am in India; 1:00 am in London in January and 2:00 am in July; 8:00 pm the previous day in New York in January and 9:00 pm the previous day in July. Other parts of Micronesia are earlier or later than that by the amounts in the table at the top of this page.