What time is it in Kiribati right now? 🇰🇮
It is 1:30 am in South Tarawa right now, Saturday, September 26, 2026. Kiribati runs on UTC+12, and on 2 further zones besides. Every reading on this page is computed from the IANA time zone database at the moment you loaded it, and the clocks above and below tick on from there.
Time in Kiribati now
Kiribati spans 3 different clock readings across 3 IANA zones, 2 hours apart from end to end. When it is 1:30 am in Tarawa it is already 3:30 am in Kiritimati, so "the time in Kiribati" is a question that needs a region attached to it.
The offset from UTC in South Tarawa is UTC+12, which is 12 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Nine in the morning in South Tarawa is 9:00 pm UTC.
Kiribati time zones in full
Each row is a zone identifier from the IANA database, its reading at this instant, its offset from UTC and whether it is currently on standard or summer time. They do not all agree: the spread across Kiribati is 2 hours.
| Time zone | Time now | UTC offset | Abbreviation | Daylight saving |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Pacific/Kanton | 2:30 am | UTC+13 | UTC+13 | never moves |
Pacific/Kiritimati | 3:30 am | UTC+14 | UTC+14 | never moves |
Pacific/Tarawa | 1:30 am | UTC+12 | UTC+12 | never moves |
Does Kiribati have daylight saving time?
No part of Kiribati moves its clocks. The offset stays at UTC+12 through the whole year, which means a difference worked out today against Kiribati is still right in six months. Most of the world now works this way; the daylight saving habit is concentrated in Europe, North America and a short list of others.
A fixed offset makes Kiribati an easy place to schedule against, with one caveat: the country at the other end of the call may still be moving its clocks, so the gap can change even though nothing changed here. The windows further down this page are worked out at the current instant for exactly that reason.
Where Kiribati is on the map
The marker is on South Tarawa, the point every sun reading and every call window on this page is worked out from.
An interactive map of South Tarawa. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open South Tarawa on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between South Tarawa and major cities
Worked out at this instant rather than from a stored table, so daylight saving on either side is already in it.
| City | Time there now | Difference from South Tarawa |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, CA | 6:30 am | 19 hours behind South Tarawa |
| Chicago, IL | 8:30 am | 17 hours behind South Tarawa |
| New York, NY | 9:30 am | 16 hours behind South Tarawa |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 10:30 am | 15 hours behind South Tarawa |
| London, United Kingdom | 2:30 pm | 11 hours behind South Tarawa |
| Paris, France | 3:30 pm | 10 hours behind South Tarawa |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 3:30 pm | 10 hours behind South Tarawa |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 5:30 pm | 8 hours behind South Tarawa |
| Delhi, India | 7:00 pm | 6 hours 30 minutes behind South Tarawa |
| Singapore, Singapore | 9:30 pm | 4 hours behind South Tarawa |
| Tokyo, Japan | 10:30 pm | 3 hours behind South Tarawa |
| Sydney, Australia | 11:30 pm | 2 hours behind South Tarawa |
Best time to call Kiribati
A nine to five working day in South Tarawa against a nine to five day elsewhere. The overlap column is the stretch when both desks are open, given on each side's own clock.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in South Tarawa | Window there |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York the US East Coast | 16 hours ahead | no shared working hours | try either side of the working day |
| Los Angeles the US West Coast | 19 hours ahead | 9:00 am to 12:00 pm | 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
| London the United Kingdom | 11 hours ahead | no shared working hours | try either side of the working day |
| Mumbai India | 6 hours 30 minutes ahead | 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm | 9:00 am to 10:30 am |
Daylight hours in South Tarawa today
In South Tarawa the sun rose at 6:16 am today and sets at 6:23 pm, giving 12 hours 6 minutes of daylight. The capital is holding 4 seconds of daylight a day at the moment, and the sun stands highest at 12:20 pm.
Solar noon in South Tarawa is 12:20 pm, which is 20 minutes after clock noon. That gap is the capital sitting at 172.98 degrees east while its clock is set to Pacific/Tarawa, plus the equation of time, which today runs 8.5 minutes ahead of mean time.
Moon phase over South Tarawa tonight
The moon is full moon tonight, 14.4 days into the current lunation, with roughly 100 percent of the disc lit. The next full moon falls on September 27, 2026 as Kiribati reads the date, at 4:48 am local. The moon phase page has the full cycle.
Cities in Kiribati
This site does not yet carry a city page inside Kiribati, so the readings here are worked out for South Tarawa and for each zone directly. The zone table above is the authoritative answer for anywhere in the country, because a zone applies to every settlement inside it regardless of whether we list the settlement.
Every IANA time zone in Kiribati
These are the identifiers a computer uses. A program that stores Pacific/Tarawa rather than UTC+12 keeps working through every future rule change, which is the whole reason the database is keyed this way.
Convert Kiribati time to another zone
The converter pages below take UTC+12 against the zones people most often measure it from. Each one carries a full conversion table rather than a single answer.
Information about Kiribati
Kiribati sits in Oceania, carries the ISO country code KI and a population of about 133,000. Its capital South Tarawa is at 1.33 degrees north, 172.98 degrees east, which is the coordinate every sunrise and solar noon on this page is computed from.
Upcoming dates in Kiribati
Read on Kiribati's own clock, so the day counts below start from September 26 and not from a UTC date. The list is the internationally observed calendar plus the dates common across Oceania, along with this country's own clock changes and the next solstices and equinoxes. National days set by a country's own statute are not included, because this site carries no statute table and a guessed one would be worse than an honest gap.
| Date | Day | What falls on it | Days away |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 22, 2026 | Tuesday | December solstice, 8:50 am local astronomical | 87 |
| December 25, 2026 | Friday | Christmas Day observed widely | 90 |
| December 26, 2026 | Saturday | Boxing Day or St Stephen’s Day observed widely | 91 |
| December 31, 2026 | Thursday | New Year's Eve observance | 96 |
| January 1, 2027 | Friday | New Year's Day observed almost everywhere | 97 |
| March 21, 2027 | Sunday | March equinox, 8:24 am local astronomical | 176 |
| March 26, 2027 | Friday | Good Friday movable, set by the Easter cycle | 181 |
| March 28, 2027 | Sunday | Easter Sunday movable, set by the Easter cycle | 183 |
| March 29, 2027 | Monday | Easter Monday movable, set by the Easter cycle | 184 |
| May 1, 2027 | Saturday | International Workers' Day public holiday in most countries | 217 |
Sun and moon in South Tarawa today
The sun is up in South Tarawa for 12 hours 6 minutes today, from 6:16 am to 6:23 pm. The moon sets in South Tarawa at 5:32 am and comes up again at 5:55 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 South Tarawa |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:08 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:32 am |
| Civil dawn | 5:56 am |
| Sunrise | 6:16 am |
| Solar noon | 12:20 pm |
| Sunset | 6:23 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:43 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 7:07 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:31 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 South Tarawa | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 5:56 am to 6:04 am | 0h 08m |
| Morning golden hour | 6:04 am to 6:44 am | 0h 40m |
| Evening golden hour | 5:55 pm to 6:35 pm | 0h 40m |
| Evening blue hour | 6:35 pm to 6:43 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 South Tarawa |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 5:55 pm |
| Moonset | 5:32 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: Kiribati and four other places
Every hour of Saturday, September 26, 2026 in Kiribati, read across 4 other places. Columns are Kiribati 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
| Kiribati 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KiribatiUTC+12 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. Kiribati 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 Kiribati it is working hours in New York and London, but outside them in Kiribati, Los Angeles and Delhi. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Kiribati spans 3 time zones, so the clock shown is South Tarawa.
Prayer times in South Tarawa
Seven days from September 26, 2026, computed for South Tarawa at 1.33 degrees north, 172.98 degrees east, on the clock of Pacific/Tarawa. 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 | 5:08 am | 6:16 am | 12:20 pm | 3:24 pm | 6:23 pm | 7:27 pm |
| Sunday September 27 | 5:07 am | 6:16 am | 12:19 pm | 3:25 pm | 6:22 pm | 7:27 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 5:07 am | 6:16 am | 12:19 pm | 3:25 pm | 6:22 pm | 7:27 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 5:07 am | 6:16 am | 12:19 pm | 3:25 pm | 6:22 pm | 7:26 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 5:07 am | 6:15 am | 12:18 pm | 3:25 pm | 6:21 pm | 7:26 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 5:06 am | 6:15 am | 12:18 pm | 3:26 pm | 6:21 pm | 7:26 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 5:06 am | 6:15 am | 12:18 pm | 3:26 pm | 6:21 pm | 7:25 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at South Tarawa, 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 South Tarawa
From South Tarawa the qibla is 299.2 degrees on a true compass, which is west-northwest, or 29.2 degrees south of due west. The Kaaba is 14,334 km away, 8,907 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from South Tarawa 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 South Tarawa 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.
Questions about the time in Kiribati
- What time is it in Kiribati right now?
- It is 1:30 am in South Tarawa as this page was served, Saturday, September 26, 2026. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.
- What time zone is Kiribati in?
- Kiribati uses 3 zones, from UTC+12 to UTC+14. The capital South Tarawa is on Pacific/Tarawa at UTC+12.
- What is the UTC offset in Kiribati?
- UTC+12 in South Tarawa at this instant, and between UTC+12 and UTC+14 across the whole country.
- Does Kiribati observe daylight saving time?
- No. Kiribati stays on UTC+12 all year and does not move its clocks.
- What time does the sun set in South Tarawa today?
- 6:23 pm, after a sunrise at 6:16 am and 12 hours 6 minutes of daylight.
- When is the best time to call Kiribati from the United States?
- The working days do not overlap: South Tarawa is 16 hours ahead of New York, so one side has to take the call outside office hours.
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