Current time in Tauranga, New Zealand right now
It is 7:32 am in Tauranga, New Zealand 🇳🇿 right now, on Saturday, September 26, 2026. The city keeps Pacific/Auckland, which is NZST at UTC+12, so Tauranga is 12 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 7:32 pm. The sun rose in Tauranga at 5:59 am and sets at 6:15 pm, which is 12 hours 15 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Tauranga right now?
The time in Tauranga, New Zealand is 7:32 am, 07:32 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.
Tauranga sits at 37.69 degrees south and 176.17 degrees east, in the subtropical belt and 4,191 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 180.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 3.8 degrees west of that line. Those 3.8 degrees are worth 15 minutes 20 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:07 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Tauranga time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Tauranga, New Zealand is Pacific/Auckland. Right now it is running at UTC+12 and the abbreviation in force is NZST. Tauranga is on standard time at the moment, at UTC+12. It moves to UTC+13 for part of the year.
Daylight hours in Tauranga today
The sun rose in Tauranga at 5:59 am and sets at 6:15 pm, which is 12 hours 15 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Tauranga, is at 12:07 pm, which is 7 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.17 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 53.5 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the north.
| Reading | Time in Tauranga |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 5:59 am |
| Sunset | 6:15 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:07 pm |
| Day length | 12 hours 15 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 5:40 pm to 6:31 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 6:41 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 Tauranga, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Tauranga 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 Tauranga. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Tauranga on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Tauranga 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 Tauranga.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Tauranga |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 12:32 pm | -19 | 19 hours behind of Tauranga |
| Chicago, Illinois | 2:32 pm | -17 | 17 hours behind of Tauranga |
| New York, New York | 3:32 pm | -16 | 16 hours behind of Tauranga |
| Toronto, Canada | 3:32 pm | -16 | 16 hours behind of Tauranga |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 4:32 pm | -15 | 15 hours behind of Tauranga |
| London, United Kingdom | 8:32 pm | -11 | 11 hours behind of Tauranga |
| Paris, France | 9:32 pm | -10 | 10 hours behind of Tauranga |
| Berlin, Germany | 9:32 pm | -10 | 10 hours behind of Tauranga |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 9:32 pm | -10 | 10 hours behind of Tauranga |
| Moscow, Russia | 10:32 pm | -9 | 9 hours behind of Tauranga |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 11:32 pm | -8 | 8 hours behind of Tauranga |
| Delhi, India | 1:02 am | -6:30 | 6 hours 30 minutes behind of Tauranga |
| Singapore, Singapore | 3:32 am | -4 | 4 hours behind of Tauranga |
| Hong Kong, China | 3:32 am | -4 | 4 hours behind of Tauranga |
| Tokyo, Japan | 4:32 am | -3 | 3 hours behind of Tauranga |
| Sydney, Australia | 5:32 am | -2 | 2 hours behind of Tauranga |
Best time to call Tauranga
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 Tauranga | 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 Tauranga, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton | Waikato Region | 7:32 am | UTC+12 |
| Manukau City | Auckland | 7:32 am | UTC+12 |
| Auckland | Auckland | 7:32 am | UTC+12 |
| North Shore | Auckland | 7:32 am | UTC+12 |
| Lower Hutt | Wellington Region | 7:32 am | UTC+12 |
| Wellington | Wellington | 7:32 am | UTC+12 |
| Christchurch | Canterbury | 7:32 am | UTC+12 |
| Dunedin | Otago | 7:32 am | UTC+12 |
| Queenstown | Otago | 7:32 am | UTC+12 |
Cities on Pacific/Auckland time
10 of our cities keep Pacific/Auckland, so every one of them reads 7:32 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Tauranga. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Tauranga |
|---|---|---|
| Hamilton, New Zealand | 7:32 am | 78 km |
| Manukau City, New Zealand | 7:32 am | 137 km |
| Auckland, New Zealand | 7:32 am | 155 km |
| North Shore, New Zealand | 7:32 am | 159 km |
| Lower Hutt, New Zealand | 7:32 am | 407 km |
| Wellington, New Zealand | 7:32 am | 418 km |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | 7:32 am | 715 km |
| Dunedin, New Zealand | 7:32 am | 1,024 km |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | 7:32 am | 1,028 km |
Moon phase over Tauranga 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 Tauranga clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Tauranga
The next change is on Sunday, September 27, 2026, 1 day from now, when the clocks in Tauranga 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 Tauranga 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 Tauranga is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Tauranga is Hamilton, New Zealand at 78 km, and the furthest is Jaen, Spain at 20,005 km, which is 100% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton, New Zealand | 78 | 49 | west | 7:32 am |
| Manukau City, New Zealand | 137 | 85 | north west | 7:32 am |
| Auckland, New Zealand | 155 | 96 | north west | 7:32 am |
| North Shore, New Zealand | 159 | 99 | north west | 7:32 am |
| Lower Hutt, New Zealand | 407 | 253 | south | 7:32 am |
| Wellington, New Zealand | 418 | 260 | south | 7:32 am |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | 715 | 444 | south west | 7:32 am |
| Dunedin, New Zealand | 1,024 | 636 | south west | 7:32 am |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | 1,028 | 639 | south west | 7:32 am |
| Suva, Fiji | 2,186 | 1,359 | north | 7:32 am |
The antipode of Tauranga
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Tauranga, New Zealand and you come out at 37.69 degrees north, 3.83 degrees west. That point is near Jaen, Spain. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Jaen, Spain, 10 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 9:32 pm on Friday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 37.69 degrees south becomes 37.69 degrees north, and 176.17 degrees east becomes 3.83 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Tauranga 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 Tauranga, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Tauranga
Today the sun rises in Tauranga at 5:59 am and sets at 6:15 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 Tauranga.
Sun and moon in Tauranga today
The sun is up in Tauranga for 12 hours 15 minutes today, from 5:59 am to 6:15 pm. The moon sets in Tauranga at 5:25 am and comes up again at 5:46 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 Tauranga |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 4:31 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:03 am |
| Civil dawn | 5:33 am |
| Sunrise | 5:59 am |
| Solar noon | 12:07 pm |
| Sunset | 6:15 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:41 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 7:12 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:43 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 Tauranga | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 5:33 am to 5:43 am | 0h 10m |
| Morning golden hour | 5:43 am to 6:34 am | 0h 51m |
| Evening golden hour | 5:40 pm to 6:31 pm | 0h 51m |
| Evening blue hour | 6:31 pm to 6:41 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 Tauranga |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 5:46 pm |
| Moonset | 5:25 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: Tauranga and four other places
Every hour of Saturday, September 26, 2026 in Tauranga, New Zealand, read across 4 other places. Columns are Tauranga 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
| Tauranga 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TaurangaNZST 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. Tauranga 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 Tauranga it is working hours in New York and London, but outside them in Tauranga, Los Angeles and Delhi. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Tauranga
Seven days from September 26, 2026, computed for Tauranga, New Zealand at 37.69 degrees south, 176.17 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 | 4:31 am | 5:59 am | 12:07 pm | 3:35 pm | 6:15 pm | 7:38 pm |
| Sunday September 27 | 5:30 am | 6:58 am | 1:07 pm | 4:36 pm | 7:16 pm | 8:39 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 5:28 am | 6:56 am | 1:06 pm | 4:36 pm | 7:17 pm | 8:40 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 5:26 am | 6:55 am | 1:06 pm | 4:36 pm | 7:17 pm | 8:41 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 5:25 am | 6:53 am | 1:05 pm | 4:37 pm | 7:18 pm | 8:42 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 5:23 am | 6:52 am | 1:05 pm | 4:37 pm | 7:19 pm | 8:43 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 5:21 am | 6:50 am | 1:05 pm | 4:37 pm | 7:20 pm | 8:44 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Tauranga, 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 Tauranga
From Tauranga, New Zealand the qibla is 259.2 degrees on a true compass, which is west, or 10.8 degrees north of due west. The Kaaba is 15,471 km away, 9,613 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Tauranga, 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 Tauranga, 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 Tauranga clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Tauranga, 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 Tauranga 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.
Tauranga time now: common questions
- What time is it in Tauranga, New Zealand right now?
- 7:32 am on Saturday September 26, 2026. Tauranga runs on NZST, UTC+12.
- What time zone is Tauranga in?
- Pacific/Auckland, currently NZST at UTC+12. 10 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Tauranga?
- UTC+12 at this instant. It alternates between UTC+12 and UTC+13 across the year.
- Does Tauranga observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. The next change is September 27, 2026, when the clocks go forward.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Tauranga of New York?
- Tauranga is 16 hours ahead of New York, where it is 3:32 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Tauranga today?
- 6:15 pm, after a sunrise at 5:59 am and 12 hours 15 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Tauranga?
- 37.69 degrees north, 3.83 degrees west, near Jaen, Spain.
- When is the best time to call Tauranga from London?
- There is no shared working hour: London is 11 hours behind of Tauranga, which puts the two working days apart.
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