| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −12h | Becomes −13h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −11h | Becomes −12h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | −9h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | −4h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | −3h | Becomes −2h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −17h | Becomes −18h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −20h | Becomes −21h on 1 Nov |
Wellington, New Zealand runs on UTC+13. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+12 in winter, UTC+13 in summer. Next change: 4 Apr. The time difference between Wellington and New York is 17 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–11:00 in Wellington lines up with 16:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Wellington and London is 12 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 Wellington and Tokyo is 4 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 5 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 13:00–18:00 in Wellington lines up with 09:00–14:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Auckland, Christchurch, Queenstown. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Wellington.
Wellington (New Zealand) is home to roughly 215K people. Today brings about 12.5 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:56, sunset at 19:25. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+12 in winter, UTC+13 in summer. Next change: 4 Apr. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 41° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
New Zealand
Capital
Wellington 👑
Continent
Oceania
Time Zone
UTC+13 · Pacific/Auckland
Coordinates
41.29°S, 174.78°E
Currency
NZD ($)
Calling Code
+64
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
English, Māori
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Wellington records gusts above 60 km/h on around 173 days a year, funnelled through Cook Strait, and is generally reckoned the windiest major city on Earth. Its airport approach has a reputation among pilots.
The clock: Wellington keeps UTC+12, and New Zealand was the first country in the world to adopt a nationwide standard time, in 1868.
Wellington lies at 185.2°W. Its time zone, UTC+12, is built around the 180°W meridian. The 5.2° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 21 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:21 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 81 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:21.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 15h 9m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 9h 11m. The swing between them is 5h 58m. This is the latitude band where the difference between summer and winter evenings is most obvious.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Wellington the sun comes up earliest on 10 December at 05:42, while the latest sunset waits until 4 January at 20:57. 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 Wellington that civil twilight runs about 28 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 34 minutes at the solstice.
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 Wellington, New Zealand is Pacific/Auckland with a current UTC offset of UTC+13.
Wellington has an estimated population of 215K and is located at coordinates 41.29°S, 174.78°E. It is the capital city of New Zealand.
Wellington gets 15h 9m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 11m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Wellington falls at about 12:21 on UTC+12 standard time, because the city sits 5.2° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Windiest City in the World: Wellington records gusts above 60 km/h on around 173 days a year, funnelled through Cook Strait, and is generally reckoned the windiest major city on Earth. Its airport approach has a reputation among pilots.