Christmas Island · UTC+7
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island runs on UTC+7. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+7 — daylight saving time is not observed. There is a 11-hour difference between Flying Fish Cove and New York. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with New York, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. There is a 6-hour difference between Flying Fish Cove and London. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 15:00–18:00 in Flying Fish Cove lines up with 09:00–12:00 in London. There is a 2-hour difference between Flying Fish Cove and Tokyo. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 7 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–16:00 in Flying Fish Cove lines up with 11:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Bangkok, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Flying Fish Cove.
Practical Info
Flying Fish Cove (Christmas Island) is home to roughly 1K people. Today brings about 11.6 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:12, sunset at 17:48. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+7 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 10° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Christmas Island
Capital
Flying Fish Cove 👑
Continent
Oceania
Time Zone
UTC+7 · Indian/Christmas
Coordinates
10.42°S, 105.68°E
Currency
AUD ($)
Calling Code
+61
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
English, Malay
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Christmas Island's red crabs migrate from forest to sea each wet season — on the order of tens of millions of them — and roads are closed or bridged for the duration. The island holds a species found nowhere else in numbers found nowhere else.
The clock: Flying Fish Cove keeps UTC+7, the same as Jakarta, despite being Australian territory — geography won over administration.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
5h overlap