It is 11:31 pm in Pacific/Chatham

Pacific/Chatham is the IANA identifier for the time zone of Chatham in New Zealand. It is running at UTC+12:45 right now, with no letter abbreviation in common use, and the local date is Friday, September 25, 2026. The zone is on its standard offset at the moment.

What time is it in Pacific/Chatham right now

11:31 pm on Friday, September 25, 2026, as this page was served, which in 24 hour form is 23:31. The clock above ticks on from there in your own browser. The offset is 12 hours and 45 minutes ahead of UTC, one of the few quarter-hour offsets in the database. Converting into this zone changes the minutes as well as the hour, which is where naive conversion code usually breaks.

No other zone in this list reads UTC+12:45 at this instant, which makes Pacific/Chatham the only way to name this clock right now.

The UTC offset of Pacific/Chatham

An offset of UTC+12:45 names the meridian 191.3 degrees east. Wellington, New Zealand actually sits at 174.78 degrees east, which is 16.5 degrees west of it, so the sun there runs about 66 minutes behind the clock before daylight saving is even considered. Zone boundaries are drawn by borders and by convenience, not by longitude, and this is the size of the gap that produces.

Because this zone moves its clocks, UTC+12:45 is only today's answer. It runs at UTC+12:45 for the winter part of the year and UTC+13:45 for the summer part, a difference of 1 hour, and any gap memorised against it is wrong for part of the year.

Daylight saving in Pacific/Chatham

Pacific/Chatham does observe daylight saving. The next change is on September 27, 2026: at 2:44 am local the clocks go forward, and UTC+12:45 becomes UTC+13:45. That hour is skipped and never appears on the clock at all, which is why a wall clock time in this zone is not always a single instant.

Every clock change the database has for this zone in 2025, 2026 and 2027, with the exact local reading either side of the jump.

How the offset of Pacific/Chatham has changed since 1970

Read on 1 January and 1 July of each year, which is the cheapest pair of samples that shows both the winter offset and whether the clocks moved that summer. The zone has passed through 2 distinct eras in that time and has used 2 different offsets: UTC+12:45, UTC+13:45. Its current behaviour has held since 1975. A rule change that began and ended between July and the following January is invisible to this sampling, so the table is a shape rather than a complete edit history.

The earliest summer shift this sampling sees here is 1975, and the zone has kept moving its clocks since. The dates the change falls on have moved several times even where the rule has not.

Countries and regions that use Pacific/Chatham

One country uses Pacific/Chatham: New Zealand, which keeps 2 zones in total and has a population of about 5,220,000.

Cities in the Pacific/Chatham time zone

This site does not yet carry a city page inside Pacific/Chatham, so the readings here are computed for the identifier itself and anchored at Wellington, New Zealand. That costs nothing in accuracy: an offset is a property of the zone, not of a settlement, so the clock above is right for every point inside it. The city index lists the 6,338 places that do have their own page.

The sun against the clock in Pacific/Chatham

Worked out for Wellington, New Zealand, the capital of a country that keeps the zone, at 41.29 degrees south, 174.78 degrees east. The sun rises at 6:51 am and sets at 7:05 pm, giving 12 hours 14 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the moment the sun is highest, falls at 12:58 pm, which is 58 minutes after clock noon.

That gap is the whole argument about where zone lines belong, in one number. It is made of three things: Wellington, New Zealand sitting 16.5 degrees west of the UTC+12:45 meridian, the equation of time, which today runs 8.1 minutes ahead of mean time, and the hour of daylight saving this zone adds in summer.

Convert Pacific/Chatham to another time zone

The converter is keyed on the abbreviations people type rather than on identifiers. Pacific/Chatham is at UTC+12:45 right now, the same reading as UTC, so these pages answer the same question for it today. They will diverge if the two zones ever adopt different daylight saving rules, which is exactly why the identifier is the thing worth storing.

Questions about Pacific/Chatham

What time is it in Pacific/Chatham right now?

11:31 pm on Friday, September 25, 2026, as this page was served. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.

What is the UTC offset of Pacific/Chatham?

UTC+12:45 at this instant, and it alternates between UTC+12:45 in winter and UTC+13:45 in summer.

Does Pacific/Chatham observe daylight saving time?

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

What is the abbreviation for Pacific/Chatham?

There is no English letter abbreviation in common use for this zone, so it is written as its offset, UTC+12:45. That is what every other clock shows for it too.

Which countries use Pacific/Chatham?

New Zealand.

Why store Pacific/Chatham instead of UTC+12:45?

Because the offset is an output and the identifier is the input. This zone alone has two offsets in a year, and 0 other zones share its current reading while carrying different rules. A record storing UTC+12:45 cannot tell them apart; a record storing Pacific/Chatham keeps working through every future rule change.

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