Current time in Christchurch, New Zealand right now
It is 2:03 pm in Christchurch, New Zealand 🇳🇿 right now, on Sunday, September 27, 2026. The city keeps Pacific/Auckland, which is NZDT at UTC+13, so Christchurch is 13 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 1:03 am. The sun rose in Christchurch at 7:11 am and sets at 7:31 pm, which is 12 hours 21 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Christchurch right now?
The time in Christchurch, New Zealand is 2:03 pm, 14:03 on a 24 hour clock, on Sunday September 27, 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.
Christchurch sits at 43.53 degrees south and 172.64 degrees east, at a middle latitude and 4,841 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 195.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 22.4 degrees west of that line. Those 22.4 degrees are worth 89 minutes 27 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 1:21 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Christchurch time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Christchurch, New Zealand is Pacific/Auckland. Right now it is running at UTC+13 and the abbreviation in force is NZDT. Christchurch is on summer time at the moment, which is why the offset reads UTC+13 rather than the UTC+12 it keeps in winter.
Daylight hours in Christchurch today
The sun rose in Christchurch at 7:11 am and sets at 7:31 pm, which is 12 hours 21 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Christchurch, is at 1:21 pm, which is 81 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.56 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 48.0 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the north.
| Reading | Time in Christchurch |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 7:11 am |
| Sunset | 7:31 pm |
| Solar noon | 1:21 pm |
| Day length | 12 hours 21 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 6:54 pm to 7:49 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 8:00 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 Christchurch, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Christchurch 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 Christchurch. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Christchurch on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Christchurch 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 Christchurch.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Christchurch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 6:03 pm | -20 | 20 hours behind of Christchurch |
| Chicago, Illinois | 8:03 pm | -18 | 18 hours behind of Christchurch |
| New York, New York | 9:03 pm | -17 | 17 hours behind of Christchurch |
| Toronto, Canada | 9:03 pm | -17 | 17 hours behind of Christchurch |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 10:03 pm | -16 | 16 hours behind of Christchurch |
| London, United Kingdom | 2:03 am | -12 | 12 hours behind of Christchurch |
| Paris, France | 3:03 am | -11 | 11 hours behind of Christchurch |
| Berlin, Germany | 3:03 am | -11 | 11 hours behind of Christchurch |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 3:03 am | -11 | 11 hours behind of Christchurch |
| Moscow, Russia | 4:03 am | -10 | 10 hours behind of Christchurch |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 5:03 am | -9 | 9 hours behind of Christchurch |
| Delhi, India | 6:33 am | -7:30 | 7 hours 30 minutes behind of Christchurch |
| Singapore, Singapore | 9:03 am | -5 | 5 hours behind of Christchurch |
| Hong Kong, China | 9:03 am | -5 | 5 hours behind of Christchurch |
| Tokyo, Japan | 10:03 am | -4 | 4 hours behind of Christchurch |
| Sydney, Australia | 11:03 am | -3 | 3 hours behind of Christchurch |
Best time to call Christchurch
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 Christchurch | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | -17 | 9:00 am to 11:00 am | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Los Angeles | -20 | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
| London | -12 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| Delhi | -7:30 | 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 10:30 am |
| Sydney | -3 | 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 3:00 pm |
Other cities in New Zealand
We cover 10 cities in New Zealand. These are the ones nearest to Christchurch, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellington | Wellington | 2:03 pm | UTC+13 |
| Dunedin | Otago | 2:03 pm | UTC+13 |
| Lower Hutt | Wellington Region | 2:03 pm | UTC+13 |
| Queenstown | Otago | 2:03 pm | UTC+13 |
| Hamilton | Waikato Region | 2:03 pm | UTC+13 |
| Tauranga | Bay of Plenty | 2:03 pm | UTC+13 |
| Manukau City | Auckland | 2:03 pm | UTC+13 |
| Auckland | Auckland | 2:03 pm | UTC+13 |
| North Shore | Auckland | 2:03 pm | UTC+13 |
Cities on Pacific/Auckland time
10 of our cities keep Pacific/Auckland, so every one of them reads 2:03 pm at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Christchurch. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Christchurch |
|---|---|---|
| Wellington, New Zealand | 2:03 pm | 305 km |
| Dunedin, New Zealand | 2:03 pm | 310 km |
| Lower Hutt, New Zealand | 2:03 pm | 318 km |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | 2:03 pm | 357 km |
| Hamilton, New Zealand | 2:03 pm | 677 km |
| Tauranga, New Zealand | 2:03 pm | 715 km |
| Manukau City, New Zealand | 2:03 pm | 752 km |
| Auckland, New Zealand | 2:03 pm | 765 km |
| North Shore, New Zealand | 2:03 pm | 770 km |
Moon phase over Christchurch tonight
The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 15.9 days into its cycle and about 99% lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 at 5:11 pm 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 Christchurch clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Christchurch
The next change is on Sunday, April 4, 2027, 189 days from now, when the clocks in Christchurch go back 1 hour at 2:59 am and the offset moves from UTC+13 to UTC+12.
Two things follow from that. Any standing call with Christchurch 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 Christchurch is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Christchurch is Wellington, New Zealand at 305 km, and the furthest is A Coruna, Spain at 19,930 km, which is 100% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellington, New Zealand | 305 | 190 | north east | 2:03 pm |
| Dunedin, New Zealand | 310 | 193 | south west | 2:03 pm |
| Lower Hutt, New Zealand | 318 | 198 | north east | 2:03 pm |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | 357 | 222 | south west | 2:03 pm |
| Hamilton, New Zealand | 677 | 421 | north | 2:03 pm |
| Tauranga, New Zealand | 715 | 444 | north east | 2:03 pm |
| Manukau City, New Zealand | 752 | 467 | north | 2:03 pm |
| Auckland, New Zealand | 765 | 475 | north | 2:03 pm |
| North Shore, New Zealand | 770 | 478 | north | 2:03 pm |
| Hobart, Australia | 2,045 | 1,270 | west | 11:03 am |
The antipode of Christchurch
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Christchurch, New Zealand and you come out at 43.53 degrees north, 7.36 degrees west. That point is near A Coruna, Spain. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is A Coruna, Spain, 85 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 3:03 am on Sunday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 43.53 degrees south becomes 43.53 degrees north, and 172.64 degrees east becomes 7.36 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Christchurch is one of the exceptions, with dry land on the far side. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC+1, roughly twelve hours from Christchurch, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Christchurch
Today the sun rises in Christchurch at 7:11 am and sets at 7:31 pm, giving 12 hours 21 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 Christchurch.
Hourly forecast for Christchurch
The next 17 hours, in Christchurch local time. Temperatures are given in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
- 2 PM 6°C 42°F Light rain 29 km/h 0.1 mm
- 3 PM 9°C 48°F Light rain showers 31 km/h 0.2 mm
- 4 PM 10°C 49°F Light rain showers 35 km/h 0.2 mm
- 5 PM 9°C 47°F Rain showers 33 km/h 0.3 mm
- 6 PM 8°C 46°F Fair 24 km/h
- 7 PM 7°C 45°F Clear sky 18 km/h
- 8 PM 6°C 42°F Clear sky 10 km/h
- 9 PM 4°C 40°F Clear sky 8 km/h
- 10 PM 4°C 39°F Clear sky 8 km/h
- 11 PM 4°C 39°F Clear sky 7 km/h
- 12 AM 4°C 38°F Clear sky 6 km/h
- 1 AM 4°C 38°F Fair 6 km/h
- 2 AM 3°C 37°F Partly cloudy 10 km/h
- 3 AM 2°C 36°F Partly cloudy 14 km/h
- 4 AM 3°C 38°F Clear sky 16 km/h
- 5 AM 3°C 38°F Clear sky 17 km/h
- 6 AM 3°C 38°F Clear sky 15 km/h
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
7-day forecast for Christchurch
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 27 Sep | 12°C / 53°F | 3°C / 37°F | Heavy rain | 22.2 mm |
| Mon 28 Sep | 15°C / 60°F | 2°C / 36°F | Partly cloudy | 0 mm |
| Tue 29 Sep | 18°C / 64°F | 6°C / 43°F | Fair | 0 mm |
| Wed 30 Sep | 13°C / 56°F | 9°C / 48°F | Partly cloudy | 0.2 mm |
| Thu 1 Oct | 18°C / 64°F | 7°C / 44°F | Cloudy | 0 mm |
| Fri 2 Oct | 21°C / 69°F | 10°C / 49°F | Cloudy | 0 mm |
| Sat 3 Oct | 13°C / 55°F | 10°C / 50°F | Rain | 3.4 mm |
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Sun and moon in Christchurch today
The sun is up in Christchurch for 12 hours 21 minutes today, from 7:11 am to 7:31 pm. The moon sets in Christchurch at 7:01 am and comes up again at 8:14 pm. The next phase is the last quarter on October 4, 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 Christchurch |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:34 am |
| Nautical dawn | 6:08 am |
| Civil dawn | 6:42 am |
| Sunrise | 7:11 am |
| Solar noon | 1:21 pm |
| Sunset | 7:31 pm |
| Civil dusk | 8:00 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 8:34 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 9:09 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 Christchurch | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 6:42 am to 6:53 am | 0h 11m |
| Morning golden hour | 6:53 am to 7:48 am | 0h 55m |
| Evening golden hour | 6:54 pm to 7:49 pm | 0h 55m |
| Evening blue hour | 7:49 pm to 8:00 pm | 0h 11m |
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 Christchurch |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 8:14 pm |
| Moonset | 7:01 am |
| Phase | waning gibbous, waning |
| Illumination | 100% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 15.8 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 378,400 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: Christchurch and four other places
Every hour of Sunday, September 27, 2026 in Christchurch, New Zealand, read across 4 other places. Columns are Christchurch 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.
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| Christchurch local hour | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChristchurchNZDT UTC+13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 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 | 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 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 8-1 | 9-1 | 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 |
| LondonBST UTC+1 | 13-1 | 14-1 | 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 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 17:30-1 | 18:30-1 | 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 |
No hour on Sunday, September 27, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Christchurch and Los Angeles are 20 hours apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 9:00 am in Christchurch it is working hours in Christchurch, Los Angeles and New York, but outside them in London and Delhi. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Clocks go forward in Christchurch on this date, so one hour of the local day does not exist and that column repeats the hour the clock jumps to.
Prayer times in Christchurch
Seven days from September 27, 2026, computed for Christchurch, New Zealand at 43.53 degrees south, 172.64 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday September 27 | 5:34 am | 7:11 am | 1:21 pm | 4:48 pm | 7:31 pm | 9:03 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 5:32 am | 7:09 am | 1:20 pm | 4:49 pm | 7:33 pm | 9:04 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 5:30 am | 7:07 am | 1:20 pm | 4:49 pm | 7:34 pm | 9:05 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 5:28 am | 7:05 am | 1:20 pm | 4:50 pm | 7:35 pm | 9:07 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 5:26 am | 7:03 am | 1:19 pm | 4:51 pm | 7:36 pm | 9:08 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 5:24 am | 7:01 am | 1:19 pm | 4:51 pm | 7:37 pm | 9:10 pm |
| Saturday October 3 | 5:21 am | 7:00 am | 1:19 pm | 4:52 pm | 7:38 pm | 9:11 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Christchurch, 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 Christchurch
From Christchurch, New Zealand the qibla is 255.9 degrees on a true compass, which is west-southwest, or 14.1 degrees north of due west. The Kaaba is 15,039 km away, 9,345 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Christchurch, 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 Christchurch, 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 Christchurch clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Christchurch, 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 Christchurch changes its clocks, and it shows NZDT 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.
Christchurch time now: common questions
- What time is it in Christchurch, New Zealand right now?
- 2:03 pm on Sunday September 27, 2026. Christchurch runs on NZDT, UTC+13.
- What time zone is Christchurch in?
- Pacific/Auckland, currently NZDT at UTC+13. 10 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Christchurch?
- UTC+13 at this instant. It alternates between UTC+12 and UTC+13 across the year.
- Does Christchurch observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. The next change is April 4, 2027, when the clocks go back.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Christchurch of New York?
- Christchurch is 17 hours ahead of New York, where it is 9:03 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Christchurch today?
- 7:31 pm, after a sunrise at 7:11 am and 12 hours 21 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Christchurch?
- 43.53 degrees north, 7.36 degrees west, near A Coruna, Spain.
- When is the best time to call Christchurch from London?
- There is no shared working hour: London is 12 hours behind of Christchurch, which puts the two working days apart.
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