| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −12h | Becomes −13h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −11h | Becomes −12h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | −9h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | −4h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | −3h | Becomes −2h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −17h | Becomes −18h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −20h | Becomes −21h on 1 Nov |
Christchurch, New Zealand runs on UTC+13. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+12 in winter, UTC+13 in summer. Next change: 4 Apr. The time difference between Christchurch and New York is 17 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–11:00 in Christchurch lines up with 16:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Christchurch and London is 12 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with London, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. The time difference between Christchurch and Tokyo is 4 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 5 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 13:00–18:00 in Christchurch lines up with 09:00–14:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Auckland, Wellington, Queenstown. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Christchurch.
Christchurch (New Zealand) is home to roughly 390K people. Today brings about 12.5 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:03, sunset at 19:34. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+12 in winter, UTC+13 in summer. Next change: 4 Apr. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 44° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
New Zealand
Capital
Wellington
Continent
Oceania
Time Zone
UTC+13 · Pacific/Auckland
Coordinates
43.53°S, 172.64°E
Currency
NZD ($)
Calling Code
+64
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
English, Māori
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The February 2011 earthquake killed 185 people and produced ground accelerations that were among the highest ever recorded in an urban area. Around 80% of central Christchurch's buildings were eventually demolished.
The clock: Christchurch keeps UTC+12. Its transitional cathedral, built after the quake, is made largely of cardboard tubes and was designed to last fifty years.
Christchurch lies at 187.4°W. Its time zone, UTC+12, is built around the 180°W meridian. The 7.4° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 29 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:29 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 89 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:29.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 15h 25m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 8h 56m. The swing between them is 6h 29m. This is the latitude band where the difference between summer and winter evenings is most obvious.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Christchurch the sun comes up earliest on 11 December at 05:42, while the latest sunset waits until 3 January at 21:13. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Christchurch that civil twilight runs about 29 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 36 minutes at the solstice.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Christchurch, New Zealand is Pacific/Auckland with a current UTC offset of UTC+13.
Christchurch has an estimated population of 390K and is located at coordinates 43.53°S, 172.64°E.
Christchurch gets 15h 25m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 56m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Christchurch falls at about 12:29 on UTC+12 standard time, because the city sits 7.4° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City Centre Rebuilt After an Earthquake: The February 2011 earthquake killed 185 people and produced ground accelerations that were among the highest ever recorded in an urban area. Around 80% of central Christchurch's buildings were eventually demolished.