It is 11:46 pm in Pacific/Kanton
Pacific/Kanton is the IANA identifier for the time zone of Kanton in Kiribati. It is running at UTC+13 right now, with no letter abbreviation in common use, and the local date is Friday, September 25, 2026. The zone never moves its clocks.
What time is it in Pacific/Kanton right now
11:46 pm on Friday, September 25, 2026, as this page was served, which in 24 hour form is 23:46. The clock above ticks on from there in your own browser. The offset is a whole 13 hours ahead of UTC, so a UTC timestamp converts here by changing the hour and leaving the minutes exactly as they are.
3 other zones read UTC+13 at this instant: Pacific/Apia, Pacific/Fakaofo, Pacific/Tongatapu. They agree on the clock now and need not agree in six months, because each one carries its own daylight saving rule.
The UTC offset of Pacific/Kanton
An offset of UTC+13 names the meridian 195.0 degrees east. South Tarawa, Kiribati actually sits at 172.98 degrees east, which is 22.0 degrees west of it, so the sun there runs about 88 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 never moves its clocks, UTC+13 is the answer on every day of the year. That makes it an easy zone to schedule against, with the caveat that the other end of the call may still be moving its own clocks, so the gap between the two changes even though nothing changed here.
Daylight saving in Pacific/Kanton
Pacific/Kanton does not observe daylight saving. It sits at UTC+13 in January and reads UTC+13 again in July, so a gap worked out against it today is still right in six months. It has not moved its clocks in any year since 1970 that this page can see.
The database holds no clock change for Pacific/Kanton in 2025, 2026 or 2027, so there is no transition table to print. The offset shown at the top of this page is the offset on every date in those three years.
How the offset of Pacific/Kanton 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 3 distinct eras in that time and has used 3 different offsets: UTC-12, UTC-11, UTC+13. Its current behaviour has held since 1995. 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.
| Years | 1 January | 1 July | Behaviour |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 to 1979 | UTC-12 | UTC-12 | one offset all year |
| 1980 to 1994 | UTC-11 | UTC-11 | one offset all year |
| 1995 to 2026 | UTC+13 | UTC+13 | one offset all year |
No summer shift appears in any year sampled, so a piece of software that treats Pacific/Kanton as a fixed offset happens to be right, and is right by luck rather than by design: the same assumption applied to a neighbouring zone breaks twice a year.
Countries and regions that use Pacific/Kanton
One country uses Pacific/Kanton: Kiribati, which keeps 3 zones in total and has a population of about 133,000.
Cities in the Pacific/Kanton time zone
This site does not yet carry a city page inside Pacific/Kanton, so the readings here are computed for the identifier itself and anchored at South Tarawa, Kiribati. 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/Kanton
Worked out for South Tarawa, Kiribati, the capital of a country that keeps the zone, at 1.33 degrees north, 172.98 degrees east. The sun rises at 7:17 am and sets at 7:23 pm, giving 12 hours 6 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the moment the sun is highest, falls at 1:20 pm, which is 80 minutes after clock noon.
That gap is the whole argument about where zone lines belong, in one number. It is made of three things: South Tarawa, Kiribati sitting 22.0 degrees west of the UTC+13 meridian, the equation of time, which today runs 8.1 minutes ahead of mean time, and no daylight saving at all, because this zone does not use it.
Convert Pacific/Kanton to another time zone
The converter is keyed on the abbreviations people type rather than on identifiers. Pacific/Kanton is at UTC+13 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/Kanton
- What time is it in Pacific/Kanton right now?
- 11:46 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/Kanton?
- UTC+13 at this instant, on every day of the year.
- Does Pacific/Kanton observe daylight saving time?
- No. It stays at UTC+13 all year.
- What is the abbreviation for Pacific/Kanton?
- There is no English letter abbreviation in common use for this zone, so it is written as its offset, UTC+13. That is what every other clock shows for it too.
- Which countries use Pacific/Kanton?
- Kiribati.
- Why store Pacific/Kanton instead of UTC+13?
- Because the offset is an output and the identifier is the input. This zone has one offset today and no guarantee of keeping it, and 3 other zones share its current reading while carrying different rules. A record storing UTC+13 cannot tell them apart; a record storing
Pacific/Kantonkeeps working through every future rule change.