Current time in Auckland, New Zealand right now
It is 6:37 am in Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿 right now, on Saturday, September 26, 2026. The city keeps Pacific/Auckland, which is NZST at UTC+12, so Auckland is 12 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 6:37 pm. The sun rose in Auckland at 6:05 am and sets at 6:20 pm, which is 12 hours 15 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Auckland right now?
The time in Auckland, New Zealand is 6:37 am, 06:37 on a 24 hour clock, on Saturday September 26, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Pacific/Auckland rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Auckland sits at 36.85 degrees south and 174.76 degrees east, in the subtropical belt and 4,097 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 180.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 5.2 degrees west of that line. Those 5.2 degrees are worth 20 minutes 57 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:12 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Auckland time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Auckland, New Zealand is Pacific/Auckland. Right now it is running at UTC+12 and the abbreviation in force is NZST. Auckland is on standard time at the moment, at UTC+12. It moves to UTC+13 for part of the year.
Daylight hours in Auckland today
The sun rose in Auckland at 6:05 am and sets at 6:20 pm, which is 12 hours 15 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Auckland, is at 12:12 pm, which is 12 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.17 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 54.3 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the north.
| Reading | Time in Auckland |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 6:05 am |
| Sunset | 6:20 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:12 pm |
| Day length | 12 hours 15 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 5:46 pm to 6:36 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 6:46 pm |
The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Auckland, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Auckland is on the map
The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.
An interactive map of Auckland. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Auckland on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Auckland and major cities
Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Auckland.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Auckland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 11:37 am | -19 | 19 hours behind of Auckland |
| Chicago, Illinois | 1:37 pm | -17 | 17 hours behind of Auckland |
| New York, New York | 2:37 pm | -16 | 16 hours behind of Auckland |
| Toronto, Canada | 2:37 pm | -16 | 16 hours behind of Auckland |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 3:37 pm | -15 | 15 hours behind of Auckland |
| London, United Kingdom | 7:37 pm | -11 | 11 hours behind of Auckland |
| Paris, France | 8:37 pm | -10 | 10 hours behind of Auckland |
| Berlin, Germany | 8:37 pm | -10 | 10 hours behind of Auckland |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 8:37 pm | -10 | 10 hours behind of Auckland |
| Moscow, Russia | 9:37 pm | -9 | 9 hours behind of Auckland |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 10:37 pm | -8 | 8 hours behind of Auckland |
| Delhi, India | 12:07 am | -6:30 | 6 hours 30 minutes behind of Auckland |
| Singapore, Singapore | 2:37 am | -4 | 4 hours behind of Auckland |
| Hong Kong, China | 2:37 am | -4 | 4 hours behind of Auckland |
| Tokyo, Japan | 3:37 am | -3 | 3 hours behind of Auckland |
| Sydney, Australia | 4:37 am | -2 | 2 hours behind of Auckland |
Best time to call Auckland
Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Auckland | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | -16 | 9:00 am to 10:00 am | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Los Angeles | -19 | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
| London | -11 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| Delhi | -6:30 | 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 11:30 am |
| Sydney | -2 | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm |
Other cities in New Zealand
We cover 10 cities in New Zealand. These are the ones nearest to Auckland, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Shore | Auckland | 6:37 am | UTC+12 |
| Manukau City | Auckland | 6:37 am | UTC+12 |
| Hamilton | Waikato Region | 6:37 am | UTC+12 |
| Tauranga | Bay of Plenty | 6:37 am | UTC+12 |
| Lower Hutt | Wellington Region | 6:37 am | UTC+12 |
| Wellington | Wellington | 6:37 am | UTC+12 |
| Christchurch | Canterbury | 6:37 am | UTC+12 |
| Queenstown | Otago | 6:37 am | UTC+12 |
| Dunedin | Otago | 6:37 am | UTC+12 |
Cities on Pacific/Auckland time
10 of our cities keep Pacific/Auckland, so every one of them reads 6:37 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Auckland. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Auckland |
|---|---|---|
| North Shore, New Zealand | 6:37 am | 6 km |
| Manukau City, New Zealand | 6:37 am | 19 km |
| Hamilton, New Zealand | 6:37 am | 114 km |
| Tauranga, New Zealand | 6:37 am | 155 km |
| Lower Hutt, New Zealand | 6:37 am | 486 km |
| Wellington, New Zealand | 6:37 am | 493 km |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | 6:37 am | 765 km |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | 6:37 am | 1,044 km |
| Dunedin, New Zealand | 6:37 am | 1,064 km |
Moon phase over Auckland tonight
The moon is a full moon tonight, 14.6 days into its cycle and about 100% lit. The next full moon falls on September 27, 2026 at 5:48 am Auckland time, and the next new moon on October 11, 2026 at 4:49 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Auckland clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Auckland
The next change is on Sunday, September 27, 2026, 1 day from now, when the clocks in Auckland go forward 1 hour at 1:59 am and the offset moves from UTC+12 to UTC+13.
Two things follow from that. Any standing call with Auckland shifts by an hour on that date unless the other side moves the same weekend, and every offset printed on this page is the offset for today rather than a fixed property of the city.
How far Auckland is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Auckland is North Shore, New Zealand at 6 km, and the furthest is Marbella, Spain at 19,967 km, which is 100% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Shore, New Zealand | 6 | 3 | north | 6:37 am |
| Manukau City, New Zealand | 19 | 12 | south east | 6:37 am |
| Hamilton, New Zealand | 114 | 71 | south east | 6:37 am |
| Tauranga, New Zealand | 155 | 96 | south east | 6:37 am |
| Lower Hutt, New Zealand | 486 | 302 | south | 6:37 am |
| Wellington, New Zealand | 493 | 307 | south | 6:37 am |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | 765 | 475 | south | 6:37 am |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | 1,044 | 648 | south west | 6:37 am |
| Dunedin, New Zealand | 1,064 | 661 | south | 6:37 am |
| Suva, Fiji | 2,113 | 1,313 | north | 6:37 am |
The antipode of Auckland
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Auckland, New Zealand and you come out at 36.85 degrees north, 5.24 degrees west. That point is near Marbella, Spain. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Marbella, Spain, 48 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 8:37 pm on Friday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 36.85 degrees south becomes 36.85 degrees north, and 174.76 degrees east becomes 5.24 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Auckland is one of the exceptions, with dry land on the far side. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC+0, roughly twelve hours from Auckland, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Auckland
Today the sun rises in Auckland at 6:05 am and sets at 6:20 pm, giving 12 hours 15 minutes of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Auckland.
Hourly forecast for Auckland
The next 17 hours, in Auckland local time. Temperatures are given in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
- 6 AM 11°C 51°F Rain 23 km/h 0.3 mm
- 7 AM 11°C 52°F Heavy rain showers 23 km/h 1.0 mm
- 8 AM 12°C 54°F Light rain showers 20 km/h 0.2 mm
- 9 AM 14°C 57°F Light rain showers 24 km/h 0.2 mm
- 10 AM 15°C 59°F Light rain 28 km/h 0.2 mm
- 11 AM 15°C 59°F Cloudy 33 km/h
- 12 PM 15°C 59°F Light rain 28 km/h 0.1 mm
- 1 PM 15°C 59°F Light rain 30 km/h 0.2 mm
- 2 PM 14°C 58°F Cloudy 30 km/h
- 3 PM 14°C 58°F Light rain 26 km/h 0.1 mm
- 4 PM 14°C 56°F Light rain 27 km/h 0.1 mm
- 5 PM 14°C 56°F Cloudy 23 km/h
- 6 PM 13°C 56°F Cloudy 19 km/h
- 7 PM 13°C 56°F Fair 21 km/h
- 8 PM 13°C 56°F Fair 23 km/h
- 9 PM 13°C 56°F Fair 26 km/h
- 10 PM 13°C 56°F Fair 26 km/h
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
7-day forecast for Auckland
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 25 Sep | 13°C / 55°F | 12°C / 53°F | Partly cloudy | 0.9 mm |
| Sat 26 Sep | 15°C / 59°F | 10°C / 51°F | Light rain | 5.1 mm |
| Sun 27 Sep | 17°C / 63°F | 12°C / 53°F | Light rain | 4.2 mm |
| Mon 28 Sep | 13°C / 55°F | 11°C / 52°F | Light rain showers | 0.8 mm |
| Tue 29 Sep | 15°C / 60°F | 11°C / 52°F | Partly cloudy | 1.6 mm |
| Wed 30 Sep | 16°C / 60°F | 10°C / 50°F | Partly cloudy | 1.2 mm |
| Thu 1 Oct | 15°C / 59°F | 10°C / 51°F | Cloudy | 0.2 mm |
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Sun and moon in Auckland today
The sun is up in Auckland for 12 hours 15 minutes today, from 6:05 am to 6:20 pm. The moon sets in Auckland at 5:31 am and comes up again at 5:52 pm. The next phase is the full moon on September 27, 2026. The moon is full, or as near to it as makes no difference, and the whole of the face turned towards us is lit.
| Sun | Time in Auckland |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 4:38 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:09 am |
| Civil dawn | 5:39 am |
| Sunrise | 6:05 am |
| Solar noon | 12:12 pm |
| Sunset | 6:20 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:46 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 7:17 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:47 pm |
Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.
| Light band | Time in Auckland | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 5:39 am to 5:49 am | 0h 10m |
| Morning golden hour | 5:49 am to 6:39 am | 0h 50m |
| Evening golden hour | 5:46 pm to 6:36 pm | 0h 50m |
| Evening blue hour | 6:36 pm to 6:46 pm | 0h 10m |
Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.
| Moon | Reading in Auckland |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 5:52 pm |
| Moonset | 5:31 am |
| Phase | full moon, waxing |
| Illumination | 99% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 14.9 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 382,300 km |
Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.
Meeting planner: Auckland and four other places
Every hour of Saturday, September 26, 2026 in Auckland, New Zealand, read across 4 other places. Columns are Auckland local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
Change the places or the date
| Auckland local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AucklandNZST UTC+12 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPDT UTC-7 | 5-1 | 6-1 | 7-1 | 8-1 | 9-1 | 10-1 | 11-1 | 12-1 | 13-1 | 14-1 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 8-1 | 9-1 | 10-1 | 11-1 | 12-1 | 13-1 | 14-1 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| LondonBST UTC+1 | 13-1 | 14-1 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 17:30-1 | 18:30-1 | 19:30-1 | 20:30-1 | 21:30-1 | 22:30-1 | 23:30-1 | 0:30 | 1:30 | 2:30 | 3:30 | 4:30 | 5:30 | 6:30 | 7:30 | 8:30 | 9:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 |
No hour on Saturday, September 26, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Auckland and Los Angeles are 19 hours apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 2 of 5: from 1:00 am in Auckland it is working hours in New York and London, but outside them in Auckland, Los Angeles and Delhi. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Auckland
Seven days from September 26, 2026, computed for Auckland, New Zealand at 36.85 degrees south, 174.76 degrees east, on the clock of Pacific/Auckland. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday September 26 | 4:38 am | 6:05 am | 12:12 pm | 3:41 pm | 6:20 pm | 7:42 pm |
| Sunday September 27 | 5:37 am | 7:04 am | 1:12 pm | 4:41 pm | 7:21 pm | 8:43 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 5:35 am | 7:02 am | 1:12 pm | 4:42 pm | 7:22 pm | 8:44 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 5:33 am | 7:01 am | 1:11 pm | 4:42 pm | 7:23 pm | 8:45 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 5:32 am | 6:59 am | 1:11 pm | 4:42 pm | 7:24 pm | 8:46 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 5:30 am | 6:58 am | 1:11 pm | 4:43 pm | 7:25 pm | 8:47 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 5:28 am | 6:56 am | 1:10 pm | 4:43 pm | 7:25 pm | 8:48 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Auckland, New Zealand, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.
Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.
Qibla direction from Auckland
From Auckland, New Zealand the qibla is 261.2 degrees on a true compass, which is west, or 8.8 degrees north of due west. The Kaaba is 15,365 km away, 9,547 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Auckland, New Zealand to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.
The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Auckland, New Zealand before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.
Put a Auckland clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Auckland, New Zealand, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Pacific/Auckland from the time zone database, so it stays right when Auckland changes its clocks, and it shows NZST to every visitor wherever they are reading from. It is a plain iframe: no account, no script to install, nothing to pay.
The box needs 183 pixels of height for these settings, which is what the code above sets, and the numbers show at full size from 305 pixels of width up. Narrower than that they scale down rather than wrapping, and turning a line off makes the box shorter. The code updates with either.
Auckland time now: common questions
- What time is it in Auckland, New Zealand right now?
- 6:37 am on Saturday September 26, 2026. Auckland runs on NZST, UTC+12.
- What time zone is Auckland in?
- Pacific/Auckland, currently NZST at UTC+12. 10 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Auckland?
- UTC+12 at this instant. It alternates between UTC+12 and UTC+13 across the year.
- Does Auckland observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. The next change is September 27, 2026, when the clocks go forward.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Auckland of New York?
- Auckland is 16 hours ahead of New York, where it is 2:37 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Auckland today?
- 6:20 pm, after a sunrise at 6:05 am and 12 hours 15 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Auckland?
- 36.85 degrees north, 5.24 degrees west, near Marbella, Spain.
- When is the best time to call Auckland from London?
- There is no shared working hour: London is 11 hours behind of Auckland, which puts the two working days apart.
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