| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −6h | Becomes −7h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −5h | Becomes −6h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | −3h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +2h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +3h | Becomes +4h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −11h | Becomes −12h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −14h | Becomes −15h on 1 Nov |
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. The time difference between Flying Fish Cove and New York is 11 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with New York, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. The time difference between Flying Fish Cove and London is 6 hours. 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. The time difference between Flying Fish Cove and Tokyo is 2 hours. 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.
Flying Fish Cove (Christmas Island) is home to roughly 1K people. Today brings about 12.2 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:41, sunset at 17:52. 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 species lives only here and on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, where far fewer are found.
The clock: Flying Fish Cove keeps UTC+7, the same as Jakarta, despite being Australian territory — geography won over administration.
Flying Fish Cove lies at 105.7°E. Its time zone, UTC+7, is built around the 105°E meridian. The two very nearly coincide: solar noon — the moment the sun is highest — falls at about 11:57, which is as close to true solar time as a zone this wide can get. The zone holds UTC+7 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 12h 44m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 11h 31m. The swing between them is 1h 13m. Inside the tropics the day length stays within a narrow band all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Flying Fish Cove the sun comes up earliest on 17 November at 05:25, while the latest sunset waits until 28 January at 18:27. 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 Flying Fish Cove that civil twilight runs about 21 minutes at the equinox.
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 Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island is Indian/Christmas with a current UTC offset of UTC+7.
Flying Fish Cove has an estimated population of 1K and is located at coordinates 10.42°S, 105.68°E. It is the capital city of Christmas Island.
Flying Fish Cove gets 12h 44m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 31m on its shortest, averaging 12h 6m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Flying Fish Cove falls at about 11:57 on UTC+7 standard time, because the city sits 0.7° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Tens of Millions of Crabs on the Move: 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.