Honolulu
UTC−10United States · HST
Thu, 13 Aug 2026
Timezone Guide
Honolulu, United States runs on UTC−10. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−10 — daylight saving time is not observed. There is a 6-hour difference between Honolulu and New York. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–12:00 in Honolulu lines up with 15:00–18:00 in New York. There is a 11-hour difference between Honolulu and London. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with London, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. There is a 19-hour difference between Honolulu and Tokyo. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 4 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 14:00–18:00 in Honolulu lines up with 09:00–13:00 in Tokyo. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Honolulu.
Practical Info
Honolulu (United States) is home to roughly 1.0M people. Today brings about 13.2 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:54, sunset at 19:06. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−10 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 21° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
United States
Capital
Washington, D.C.
Continent
North America
Time Zone
HST · Pacific/Honolulu
Coordinates
21.31°N, 157.86°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Imperial
Did You Know?
Honolulu, Measured in Cans
Hawaii gets through roughly seven million cans of Spam a year. Not ironically. Not as a novelty item. As a food group. That is about five cans for every resident, and if you prefer your absurdity by weight, it comes to somewhere around five million pounds of pressed pork annually — a figure National Geographic arrived at independently, which is how you know nobody is exaggerating.
Every single can of it crosses four thousand kilometres of open Pacific to get there.
That is the part worth sitting with. Honolulu is the most isolated population centre on Earth, roughly 2,400 miles from the mainland United States. An entire metropolis supplied across a distance that would comfortably cross a continent — and one of the things it has firmly decided is worth the freight is meat in a rectangle. Spam is also the single most requested item at Hawaii's food banks, which stops being funny about halfway through the sentence.
The clock: Hawaii walked out of daylight saving time in the 1960s and has not touched a clock since. It sits at UTC−10, the furthest-behind time zone in the United States. When Tokyo is finishing Monday lunch, Honolulu is still somewhere in Sunday afternoon.
But the real reason Hawaii never needed daylight saving is simpler than politics. At 21° north, there is barely any seasonal daylight to save. The longest day of the year runs about 13 hours 26 minutes. The shortest runs about 10 hours 50 minutes. That is a swing of two and a half hours across an entire year — Anchorage swings by twelve. Honolulu doesn't adjust its clocks because the sun never gave it a reason to.
Sources
- Hormel/SPAM official data (7M cans/year, ~5 cans per resident)
- National Geographic, "How Spam Helped Shape Hawaii"
- NBC News, Hormel statement (2023)
- Uniform Time Act exemption (Hawaii does not observe DST)
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