Current time in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea right now
It is 10:23 am in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 right now, on Monday, September 28, 2026. The city keeps Pacific/Port_Moresby, which is UTC+10 at UTC+10, so Port Moresby is 10 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 12:23 am. The sun rose in Port Moresby at 5:58 am and sets at 6:07 pm, which is 12 hours 9 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Port Moresby right now?
The time in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea is 10:23 am, 10:23 on a 24 hour clock, on Monday September 28, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Pacific/Port_Moresby rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Port Moresby sits at 9.48 degrees south and 147.15 degrees east, inside the tropics, south of the equator and 1,054 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 150.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 2.8 degrees west of that line. Those 2.8 degrees are worth 11 minutes 24 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:02 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Port Moresby time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea is Pacific/Port_Moresby. Right now it is running at UTC+10 and the abbreviation in force is UTC+10. Port Moresby does not change its clocks at any point in the year. The offset stays at UTC+10 in January and in July alike, so no conversion involving Port Moresby ever needs a seasonal footnote.
Daylight hours in Port Moresby today
The sun rose in Port Moresby at 5:58 am and sets at 6:07 pm, which is 12 hours 9 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Port Moresby, is at 12:02 pm, which is 2 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.98 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 82.5 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the north.
| Reading | Time in Port Moresby |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 5:58 am |
| Sunset | 6:07 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:02 pm |
| Day length | 12 hours 9 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 5:39 pm to 6:20 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 6:28 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 Port Moresby, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Port Moresby 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 Port Moresby. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Port Moresby on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Port Moresby 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 Port Moresby.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Port Moresby |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 5:23 pm | -17 | 17 hours behind of Port Moresby |
| Chicago, Illinois | 7:23 pm | -15 | 15 hours behind of Port Moresby |
| New York, New York | 8:23 pm | -14 | 14 hours behind of Port Moresby |
| Toronto, Canada | 8:23 pm | -14 | 14 hours behind of Port Moresby |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 9:23 pm | -13 | 13 hours behind of Port Moresby |
| London, United Kingdom | 1:23 am | -9 | 9 hours behind of Port Moresby |
| Paris, France | 2:23 am | -8 | 8 hours behind of Port Moresby |
| Berlin, Germany | 2:23 am | -8 | 8 hours behind of Port Moresby |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 2:23 am | -8 | 8 hours behind of Port Moresby |
| Moscow, Russia | 3:23 am | -7 | 7 hours behind of Port Moresby |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 4:23 am | -6 | 6 hours behind of Port Moresby |
| Delhi, India | 5:53 am | -4:30 | 4 hours 30 minutes behind of Port Moresby |
| Singapore, Singapore | 8:23 am | -2 | 2 hours behind of Port Moresby |
| Hong Kong, China | 8:23 am | -2 | 2 hours behind of Port Moresby |
| Tokyo, Japan | 9:23 am | -1 | 1 hour behind of Port Moresby |
| Sydney, Australia | 10:23 am | 0 | same time as Port Moresby |
Best time to call Port Moresby
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 Port Moresby | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | -14 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| Los Angeles | -17 | 9:00 am to 11:00 am | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
| London | -9 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| Delhi | -4:30 | 1:30 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 1:30 pm |
| Sydney | 0 | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm |
Other cities in Papua New Guinea
Port Moresby is the only city we cover in Papua New Guinea, so there is no second clock in the country to compare it against here. The full city index has its neighbours across the border.
Cities on Pacific/Port_Moresby time
Port Moresby is the only city in our catalogue on Pacific/Port_Moresby. Other cities may share its UTC+10 offset today without sharing its rules, which is the distinction that matters the moment a clock change comes round.
Moon phase over Port Moresby tonight
The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 16.9 days into its cycle and about 95% lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 at 2:11 pm Port Moresby time, and the next new moon on October 11, 2026 at 1:49 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Port Moresby clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Port Moresby
There is no clock change scheduled in Pacific/Port_Moresby within the next 400 days, so Port Moresby stays at UTC+10 for the whole of that stretch.
That makes Port Moresby an easy city to schedule against: a meeting fixed at a given hour here holds its relationship to UTC all year, and only the other end of the call can move.
How far Port Moresby is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Port Moresby is Merauke, Indonesia at 749 km, and the furthest is Praia, Cape Verde at 18,833 km, which is 94% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merauke, Indonesia | 749 | 465 | west | 9:23 am |
| Cairns, Australia | 841 | 522 | south | 10:23 am |
| Jayapura, Indonesia | 1,050 | 652 | north west | 9:23 am |
| Townsville, Australia | 1,089 | 677 | south | 10:23 am |
| Timika, Indonesia | 1,276 | 793 | north west | 9:23 am |
| Manokwari, Indonesia | 1,736 | 1,079 | north west | 9:23 am |
| Darwin, Australia | 1,810 | 1,125 | west | 9:53 am |
| Sorong, Indonesia | 2,001 | 1,243 | north west | 9:23 am |
| Sunshine Coast, Australia | 2,009 | 1,249 | south | 10:23 am |
| Toowoomba, Australia | 2,073 | 1,288 | south | 10:23 am |
The antipode of Port Moresby
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea and you come out at 9.48 degrees north, 32.85 degrees west. That point is in the North Atlantic Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Praia, Cape Verde, 1,182 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 11:23 pm on Sunday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 9.48 degrees south becomes 9.48 degrees north, and 147.15 degrees east becomes 32.85 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Port Moresby is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-2, roughly twelve hours from Port Moresby, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Port Moresby
Today the sun rises in Port Moresby at 5:58 am and sets at 6:07 pm, giving 12 hours 9 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 Port Moresby.
Hourly forecast for Port Moresby
The next 5 hours, in Port Moresby local time. Temperatures are given in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
- 10 AM 30°C 85°F Fair 19 km/h
- 11 AM 29°C 85°F Fair 26 km/h
- 12 PM 29°C 84°F Partly cloudy 24 km/h
- 1 PM 29°C 84°F Partly cloudy 25 km/h
- 2 PM 29°C 84°F Partly cloudy 25 km/h
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
7-day forecast for Port Moresby
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 27 Sep | 29°C / 84°F | 25°C / 76°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Mon 28 Sep | 30°C / 85°F | 23°C / 74°F | Partly cloudy | 0 mm |
| Tue 29 Sep | 30°C / 85°F | 24°C / 74°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Wed 30 Sep | 30°C / 87°F | 25°C / 77°F | Fair | 0.1 mm |
| Thu 1 Oct | 30°C / 87°F | 25°C / 77°F | Fair | 0 mm |
| Fri 2 Oct | 31°C / 87°F | 24°C / 75°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Sat 3 Oct | 30°C / 86°F | 24°C / 75°F | Partly cloudy | 0 mm |
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Sun and moon in Port Moresby today
The sun is up in Port Moresby for 12 hours 9 minutes today, from 5:58 am to 6:07 pm. The moon sets in Port Moresby at 6:43 am and comes up again at 7:27 pm. The next phase is the last quarter on October 3, 2026. It is 98% lit at the moment, a waning gibbous, thinning by about 3.3 percentage points a day.
| Sun | Time in Port Moresby |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 4:48 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:12 am |
| Civil dawn | 5:37 am |
| Sunrise | 5:58 am |
| Solar noon | 12:02 pm |
| Sunset | 6:07 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:28 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 6:52 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:17 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 Port Moresby | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 5:37 am to 5:45 am | 0h 08m |
| Morning golden hour | 5:45 am to 6:25 am | 0h 41m |
| Evening golden hour | 5:39 pm to 6:20 pm | 0h 41m |
| Evening blue hour | 6:20 pm to 6:28 pm | 0h 08m |
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 Port Moresby |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 7:27 pm |
| Moonset | 6:43 am |
| Phase | waning gibbous, waning |
| Illumination | 98% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 16.9 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 374,700 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: Port Moresby and four other places
Every hour of Monday, September 28, 2026 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, read across 4 other places. Columns are Port Moresby 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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| Port Moresby 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Port MoresbyUTC+10 UTC+10 | 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 | 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 | 5 | 6 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 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 | 8 | 9 |
| LondonBST UTC+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 | 13 | 14 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 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 | 17:30 | 18:30 |
No hour on Monday, September 28, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Port Moresby and Los Angeles are 17 hours apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 2 of 5: from 12:00 am in Port Moresby it is working hours in New York and London, but outside them in Port Moresby, Los Angeles and Delhi. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Port Moresby
Seven days from September 28, 2026, computed for Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea at 9.48 degrees south, 147.15 degrees east, on the clock of Pacific/Port_Moresby. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday September 28 | 4:48 am | 5:58 am | 12:02 pm | 3:15 pm | 6:07 pm | 7:13 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 4:47 am | 5:57 am | 12:02 pm | 3:14 pm | 6:07 pm | 7:13 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 4:47 am | 5:56 am | 12:02 pm | 3:14 pm | 6:07 pm | 7:13 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 4:46 am | 5:56 am | 12:01 pm | 3:13 pm | 6:07 pm | 7:12 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 4:45 am | 5:55 am | 12:01 pm | 3:12 pm | 6:07 pm | 7:12 pm |
| Saturday October 3 | 4:45 am | 5:55 am | 12:01 pm | 3:11 pm | 6:07 pm | 7:12 pm |
| Sunday October 4 | 4:44 am | 5:54 am | 12:00 pm | 3:10 pm | 6:07 pm | 7:12 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 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 Port Moresby
From Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea the qibla is 289.5 degrees on a true compass, which is west-northwest, or 19.5 degrees south of due west. The Kaaba is 12,174 km away, 7,565 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea 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 Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea 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 Port Moresby clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Pacific/Port_Moresby from the time zone database, so it stays right when Port Moresby changes its clocks, and it shows UTC+10 to every visitor wherever they are reading from. It is a plain iframe: no account, no script to install, nothing to pay.
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Port Moresby time now: common questions
- What time is it in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea right now?
- 10:23 am on Monday September 28, 2026. Port Moresby runs on UTC+10, UTC+10.
- What time zone is Port Moresby in?
- Pacific/Port_Moresby, currently UTC+10 at UTC+10. 1 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Port Moresby?
- UTC+10 at this instant. It is UTC+10 all year round, with no seasonal change.
- Does Port Moresby observe daylight saving time?
- No. Port Moresby stays on UTC+10 for the whole year.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Port Moresby of New York?
- Port Moresby is 14 hours ahead of New York, where it is 8:23 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Port Moresby today?
- 6:07 pm, after a sunrise at 5:58 am and 12 hours 9 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Port Moresby?
- 9.48 degrees north, 32.85 degrees west, in the North Atlantic Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Port Moresby from London?
- There is no shared working hour: London is 9 hours behind of Port Moresby, which puts the two working days apart.
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