| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −9h | Becomes −10h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −8h | Becomes −9h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | −6h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | −1h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | ±0h | Becomes +1h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −14h | Becomes −15h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −17h | Becomes −18h on 1 Nov |
Lae, Papua New Guinea runs on UTC+10. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+10 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Lae and New York is 14 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 Lae and London is 9 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 Lae and Tokyo is 1 hour. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 8 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 10:00–18:00 in Lae lines up with 09:00–17:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Brisbane, Gold Coast, Cairns. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Lae.
Lae (Papua New Guinea) is home to roughly 150K people. Today brings about 12.2 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:57, sunset at 18:06. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+10 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 7° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Papua New Guinea
Capital
Port Moresby
Continent
Oceania
Time Zone
UTC+10 · Pacific/Port_Moresby
Coordinates
6.73°S, 146.99°E
Currency
PGK (K)
Calling Code
+675
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
English, Tok Pisin
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Amelia Earhart left Lae on 2 July 1937 for Howland Island and was never seen again — the last confirmed departure point of her flight. The city is Papua New Guinea's main industrial port.
The clock: Lae keeps UTC+10. Its botanical gardens hold one of the largest orchid collections in the world, in a country with several thousand native species.
Lae lies at 147.0°E. Its time zone, UTC+10, is built around the 150°E meridian. The 3.0° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 12 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:12 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+10 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 12h 31m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 11h 44m. The swing between them is 47 minutes. Within a few degrees of the equator the length of the day barely moves all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Lae the sun comes up earliest on 12 November at 05:44, while the latest sunset waits until 2 February at 18:37. 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 Lae 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 Lae, Papua New Guinea is Pacific/Port_Moresby with a current UTC offset of UTC+10.
Lae has an estimated population of 150K and is located at coordinates 6.73°S, 146.99°E.
Lae gets 12h 31m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 44m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Lae falls at about 12:12 on UTC+10 standard time, because the city sits 3.0° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Where Amelia Earhart Took Off: Amelia Earhart left Lae on 2 July 1937 for Howland Island and was never seen again — the last confirmed departure point of her flight. The city is Papua New Guinea's main industrial port.