| 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 |
Suva, 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 Suva 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 Suva lines up with 17:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Suva 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 Suva 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 Suva lines up with 09:00–15:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Tarawa, Nadi, Majuro. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Suva.
Suva (Fiji) is home to roughly 94K people. Today brings about 12.2 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:49, sunset at 18:03. 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
18.14°S, 178.44°E
Currency
FJD ($)
Calling Code
+679
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
English, Fijian, Hindi
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Fiji sits astride the 180° meridian, and the international date line was bent east around it so the whole country could share a date. Taveuni island has a marker where you can stand in two days at once — in theory.
The clock: Suva keeps UTC+12, one of the earliest clocks in the world. Fiji used daylight saving in some southern summers, which pushed it to UTC+13, but has not done so since early 2021.
Suva lies at 181.6°W. Its time zone, UTC+12, is built around the 180°W meridian. The 1.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 6 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:06 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 13m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 11h 2m. The swing between them is 2h 11m. 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 Suva the sun comes up earliest on 25 November at 05:21, while the latest sunset waits until 19 January at 18:48. 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 Suva 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 Suva, Fiji is Pacific/Fiji with a current UTC offset of UTC+12.
Suva has an estimated population of 94K and is located at coordinates 18.14°S, 178.44°E. It is the capital city of Fiji.
Suva gets 13h 13m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 2m on its shortest, averaging 12h 6m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Suva falls at about 12:06 on UTC+12 standard time, because the city sits 1.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Country the Date Line Bends Around: Fiji sits astride the 180° meridian, and the international date line was bent east around it so the whole country could share a date. Taveuni island has a marker where you can stand in two days at once — in theory.