Current time in Hamilton, New Zealand right now

It is 7:34 am in Hamilton, New Zealand 🇳🇿 right now, on Saturday, September 26, 2026. The city keeps Pacific/Auckland, which is NZST at UTC+12, so Hamilton is 12 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 7:34 pm. The sun rose in Hamilton at 6:03 am and sets at 6:18 pm, which is 12 hours 16 minutes of daylight.

What time is it in Hamilton right now?

The time in Hamilton, New Zealand is 7:34 am, 07:34 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.

Hamilton sits at 37.78 degrees south and 175.28 degrees east, in the subtropical belt and 4,201 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 180.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 4.7 degrees west of that line. Those 4.7 degrees are worth 18 minutes 52 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:10 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.

Hamilton time zone and UTC offset

The IANA zone for Hamilton, New Zealand is Pacific/Auckland. Right now it is running at UTC+12 and the abbreviation in force is NZST. Hamilton is on standard time at the moment, at UTC+12. It moves to UTC+13 for part of the year.

Daylight hours in Hamilton today

The sun rose in Hamilton at 6:03 am and sets at 6:18 pm, which is 12 hours 16 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Hamilton, is at 12:10 pm, which is 10 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.17 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 53.4 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the north.

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 Hamilton, which works from the same coordinates.

Where Hamilton 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.

Time difference between Hamilton 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 Hamilton.

Best time to call Hamilton

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.

Other cities in New Zealand

We cover 10 cities in New Zealand. These are the ones nearest to Hamilton, with the time on their clocks right now.

Cities on Pacific/Auckland time

10 of our cities keep Pacific/Auckland, so every one of them reads 7:34 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Hamilton. Nearest first:

Moon phase over Hamilton tonight

The moon is a full moon tonight, 14.7 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 Hamilton clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.

When the clocks change in Hamilton

The next change is on Sunday, September 27, 2026, 1 day from now, when the clocks in Hamilton 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 Hamilton 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 Hamilton is from other cities

Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Hamilton is Tauranga, New Zealand at 78 km, and the furthest is Cordoba, Spain at 20,002 km, which is 100% of the way to being exactly opposite.

The antipode of Hamilton

Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Hamilton, New Zealand and you come out at 37.78 degrees north, 4.72 degrees west. That point is near Cordoba, Spain. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Cordoba, Spain, 13 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 9:34 pm on Friday.

The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 37.78 degrees south becomes 37.78 degrees north, and 175.28 degrees east becomes 4.72 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Hamilton 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 Hamilton, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.

Sunrise and sunset in Hamilton

Today the sun rises in Hamilton at 6:03 am and sets at 6:18 pm, giving 12 hours 16 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 Hamilton.

Sun and moon in Hamilton today

The sun is up in Hamilton for 12 hours 16 minutes today, from 6:03 am to 6:18 pm. The moon sets in Hamilton at 5:29 am and comes up again at 5:50 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.

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.

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.

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.

Prayer times in Hamilton

Seven days from September 26, 2026, computed for Hamilton, New Zealand at 37.78 degrees south, 175.28 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.

Dhuhr is solar noon at Hamilton, 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 Hamilton

From Hamilton, New Zealand the qibla is 259.8 degrees on a true compass, which is west, or 10.2 degrees north of due west. The Kaaba is 15,393 km away, 9,565 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Hamilton, 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 Hamilton, 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.

Hamilton time now: common questions

What time is it in Hamilton, New Zealand right now?

7:34 am on Saturday September 26, 2026. Hamilton runs on NZST, UTC+12.

What time zone is Hamilton in?

Pacific/Auckland, currently NZST at UTC+12. 10 of the cities on this site keep that zone.

What is the UTC offset for Hamilton?

UTC+12 at this instant. It alternates between UTC+12 and UTC+13 across the year.

Does Hamilton observe daylight saving time?

Yes. The next change is September 27, 2026, when the clocks go forward.

How many hours ahead or behind is Hamilton of New York?

Hamilton is 16 hours ahead of New York, where it is 3:34 pm right now.

What time does the sun set in Hamilton today?

6:18 pm, after a sunrise at 6:03 am and 12 hours 16 minutes of daylight.

What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Hamilton?

37.78 degrees north, 4.72 degrees west, near Cordoba, Spain.

When is the best time to call Hamilton from London?

There is no shared working hour: London is 11 hours behind of Hamilton, which puts the two working days apart.

Nearby city clocks

All cities · Timezone converter · Sunrise and sunset · Moon phases