| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −11h | Becomes −12h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −10h | Becomes −11h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | −8h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | −3h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | −2h | Becomes −1h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −16h | Becomes −17h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −19h | Becomes −20h on 1 Nov |
Lautoka, Fiji runs on UTC+12. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+12 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Lautoka and New York is 16 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hour a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–10:00 in Lautoka lines up with 17:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Lautoka and London is 11 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 Lautoka and Tokyo is 3 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 6 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 12:00–18:00 in Lautoka lines up with 09:00–15:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Tarawa, Suva, Nadi. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Lautoka.
Lautoka (Fiji) is home to roughly 72K people. Today brings about 12.2 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:53, sunset at 18:07. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+12 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 18° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Capital
Suva
Continent
Oceania
Time Zone
UTC+12 · Pacific/Fiji
Coordinates
17.61°S, 177.45°E
Currency
FJD ($)
Calling Code
+679
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
English, Fijian, Hindi
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Lautoka's mill, opened in 1903, is one of the largest in the southern hemisphere, and sugar shaped modern Fiji — indentured labourers brought from India between 1879 and 1916 are the ancestors of roughly a third of the population.
The clock: Lautoka keeps UTC+12 all year; Fiji dropped daylight saving after 2021.
Lautoka lies at 182.5°W. Its time zone, UTC+12, is built around the 180°W meridian. The 2.5° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 10 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:10 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+12 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 13h 11m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 11h 4m. The swing between them is 2h 7m. 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 Lautoka the sun comes up earliest on 25 November at 05:26, while the latest sunset waits until 20 January at 18:51. 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 Lautoka that civil twilight runs about 22 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 Lautoka, Fiji is Pacific/Fiji with a current UTC offset of UTC+12.
Lautoka has an estimated population of 72K and is located at coordinates 17.61°S, 177.45°E.
Lautoka gets 13h 11m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 4m on its shortest, averaging 12h 6m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Lautoka falls at about 12:10 on UTC+12 standard time, because the city sits 2.5° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Sugar City: Lautoka's mill, opened in 1903, is one of the largest in the southern hemisphere, and sugar shaped modern Fiji — indentured labourers brought from India between 1879 and 1916 are the ancestors of roughly a third of the…