Time in Auckland

About this time zone

Auckland is one of the 2 time zone areas of New Zealand. Computers and phones know it by the zone name Pacific/Auckland. Its time is UTC+13 in January and UTC+12 in July, because the clocks are changed during the year. The short names used for this time are NZDT and NZST. Compared with India (IST), it is 7 hours 30 minutes ahead of India in January and 6 hours 30 minutes ahead of India in July.

Clock changes in 2026 and 2027

Auckland changes its clocks during the year. These are the changes for 2026 and 2027, worked out from the rules in the IANA time zone database.

Governments sometimes change these rules at short notice. Check an official source before fixing travel or meetings far ahead.

Counting from those dates, the clocks in Auckland stay forward for 189 days, from 27 September 2026 to 4 April 2027. That is about 27 weeks, or 52% of a year, on UTC+13 and the rest on UTC+12. The forward period runs across the new year, because summer in the southern half of the world falls in December and January.

Time difference with major cities

The table uses the offsets in force in mid January and mid July 2026. Use the converter for any other date.

Clock time and sun time in Auckland

A time zone is an agreement, and the sun does not follow it exactly. Auckland, the largest city in this zone, lies at about 174.8° east. Each degree of longitude is worth four minutes, so by the sun alone its time would be about 11 hours 39 minutes ahead of UTC. The clock is set to UTC+12. The sun is therefore highest in the sky at about 12:21 pm by the clock on standard time, and at about 1:21 pm while the clocks are moved (UTC+13). The clock runs ahead of the sun here, which means later sunrises and lighter evenings than the map alone would give. Other places in the zone, to the east or west of Auckland, see the sun peak a little earlier or later. Through the year the figure also drifts by up to a quarter of an hour either way.

How long the day is

Auckland is about 36.9° south of the equator. On the longest day of the year, around 21 December, the sun is up for about 14 hours 41 minutes. On the shortest, around 21 June, for about 9 hours 38 minutes. That swing of about 5 hours 3 minutes between summer and winter is the reason clocks are moved here: the extra summer daylight is shifted from the early morning to the evening.

Office hours shared with other places

If both sides work from 9 am to 6 pm, these are the hours when a call falls inside the working day at both ends. Times are for Auckland.

• With India, in January: 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm here, which is 9:00 am to 10:30 am in India (1 hour 30 minutes shared). In July: 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm here, which is 9:00 am to 11:30 am in India (2 hours 30 minutes shared).
• With London, in January: no shared office hour: 9:00 am here is 8:00 pm in London, and 6:00 pm here is 5:00 am there, so one side has to start early or stay late. In July: no shared office hour: 9:00 am here is 10:00 pm in London, and 6:00 pm here is 7:00 am there, so one side has to start early or stay late.
• With New York, in January: 9:00 am to 12:00 pm here, which is 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm in New York (3 hours shared). In July: 9:00 am to 10:00 am here, which is 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm in New York (1 hour shared).

How many people keep this time

The GeoNames list has 47 towns and cities of 15,000 people or more in this zone area, with about 4.8 million people between them. People in villages and smaller towns are not in that count, so the true number on this clock is higher.

Cities that keep this time

The largest cities in this zone: Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, Manukau City, Hamilton, Tauranga, Dunedin, Lower Hutt, Palmerston North, New Plymouth, Hastings, Napier, Rotorua, Porirua.

The clock above uses your device's clock and the time zone rules built into your browser. Rules on this page: IANA time zone database 2026f. See About and data sources.