Indexed entity
Avarua is the avarua-CK record in Cook Islands: country slug cook-islands, city slug avarua, ISO CK, continent Oceania, canonical IANA zone Pacific/Rarotonga.
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Live local time
Avarua, Cook Islands
12:45:00 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Pacific/Rarotonga
Quick answer
It is currently 12:45:00 AM (CKT, UTC-10:00) in Avarua, Cook Islands — Late night.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
23°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Mon
25°C
24°C
49% rain
Tue
25°C
23°C
97% rain
Wed
25°C
23°C
85% rain
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
New Zealand Dollar
1 USD = 1.709 NZD
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
07:09 AM
Sunset
06:04 PM
Day length
10h 55m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Avarua, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:45 AM UTC.
Current local time
12:45:00 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CKT
Pacific/Rarotonga · UTC-10:00
Next holiday
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Avarua right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Avarua
Indexed airports
0
Curated airport references available for Cook Islands
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Avarua, Cook Islands.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 00:45 GMT-10
No reference-city overlap right now
Avarua is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC-10:00
Zone label
GMT-10
London
11:45 AM / +11h
New York
06:45 AM / +6h
Los Angeles
03:45 AM / +3h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
Alofi, 1086 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 07:09 AM to 06:04 PM, with solar noon around 12:37 PM and total daylight of 10h 55m.
Mapped location
21.21°S, 159.78°W
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:45 AM / +11h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:45 AM / +6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:45 AM / +3h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:45 PM / +14h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:45 PM / +18h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Avarua.
No curated airport is currently mapped close enough to show as a planning cue.
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Pacific/Rarotonga for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC-10:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC-10:00.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps Avarua right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest mapped context: Alofi, 1086 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Pacific/Rarotonga. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Avarua has no near-term DST change or holiday interruption in view, but future rules can still be revised by local authorities.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Avarua.
Canonical route
/time/cook-islands/avarua/
Catalog identity
avarua-CK · CK · Oceania
Coordinate cell
21.21°S, 159.78°W · lat -21.207 · lon -159.775 · cell -2121:-15978
Population record
13,373 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Pacific/Rarotonga · GMT-10 · UTC-10:00
January / July offsets
UTC-10:00 / UTC-10:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Alofi, Niue · 1086 km
Nearest world hub
Sydney · 4,984 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Avarua
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Avarua: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Avarua is the avarua-CK record in Cook Islands: country slug cook-islands, city slug avarua, ISO CK, continent Oceania, canonical IANA zone Pacific/Rarotonga.
21.21°S, 159.78°W; Southern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -22 and longitude band -160; exact decimal pair -21.20750, -159.77546.
Cook Islands: official name Cook Islands; capital Avarua; region Oceania; subregion Polynesia; country population 15,040; area 236 km²; languages English, Cook Islands Māori; currencies CKD Cook Islands dollar, NZD New Zealand dollar. This is the country layer behind the Avarua clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Cook Islands: The Cook Islands is an island country and associated state of New Zealand in Polynesia, part of Oceania, in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of 15 islands whose total land area is approximately 236.7 square kilometres (91 sq mi). The Cook Islands Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) covers 1,960,027 square kilometres (756,771 sq mi) of ocean. The capital is Avarua, located on the island of Rarotonga. Source: Wikipedia.
Alofi [alofi-NU, NU, Pacific/Niue, 1086 km]; Punaauia [punaauia-PF, PF, Pacific/Tahiti, 1138 km]; Faaa [faaa-PF, PF, Pacific/Tahiti, 1141 km]; Papeete [papeete-PF, PF, Pacific/Tahiti, 1146 km]; Pago Pago [pago-pago-AS, AS, Pacific/Pago_Pago, 1389 km]; Apia [apia-WS, WS, Pacific/Apia, 1512 km]; Nuku‘alofa [nuku-alofa-TO, TO, Pacific/Tongatapu, 1599 km]; Mata-Utu [mata-utu-WF, WF, Pacific/Wallis, 1950 km]
Avarua is part of this indexed country cluster: Avarua [avarua-CK, Pacific/Rarotonga, pop 13,373].
Sydney 4,984 km; Los Angeles 7,554 km; Tokyo 8,977 km; Singapore 10,726 km; New York 11,185 km; São Paulo 11,234 km; London 16,213 km; Dubai 16,416 km
Avarua has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Cook Islands.
Avarua renders Jun 2, 2026 · 00:45 GMT-10; GMT-10 at UTC-10:00; January UTC-10:00; July UTC-10:00; next holiday not currently surfaced.
This evidence pack is what keeps smaller city pages from reading like timezone templates: concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Avarua.
Avarua is a context-and-reference city; rank #1 of 1 retained Cook Islands city page. The route is /time/cook-islands/avarua/ and the city id is avarua-CK.
Avarua has 11 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Avarua is pinned at 21.21°S, 159.78°W; Alofi (1086 km); Sydney (4,984 km).
Pacific/Rarotonga resolves to stable UTC-10:00 offset across January and July. 0 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Cook Islands.
Avarua has no direct nearby-airport handoff · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 0 country airport references · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Avarua uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Avarua: Avarua is a district and town in the north of the island of Rarotonga, the largest island of the Cook Islands. It serves as the capital of the Island territory and is further sub-divided into 19 tapere (sub-districts). As per 2016 census, the district had a population of 4,096 individuals. It is an important commercial and economic center with the island's main airport and Avatiu harbour located here.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (-10:00) is constant year-round.
Avarua is listed in the dataset snapshot as 10 hours behind UTC (offset -10:00). 11 hours behind London, 19 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -159.78°, Avarua's mean solar noon falls about 39 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Avarua sits at 21.21°S, in the southern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Avarua sits at 21.21°S, in the southern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Dec 14 (13h 25m)
Shortest day
Jun 19 (10h 50m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
2h 35m
See the full daylight curve for Avarua at /sun/avarua/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Avarua local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Avarua |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 03:00 - 11:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 22:00 - 06:00 (next day) |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 21:00 - 05:00 (next day) |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 19:00 - 03:00 (next day) |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 17:30 - 01:30 (next day) |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 15:00 - 23:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 15:00 - 23:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 14:00 - 22:00 |
Capital status
National capital of Cook Islands
Reference fields include Avarua's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:45:00 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Avarua (UTC-10:00, CKT).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
07:09 AM to 06:04 PM
Day length 10h 55m · Solar noon 12:37 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Avarua local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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5 days to go
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8 days to go
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34 days to go
Adobe MAX 2026
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161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
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187 days to go
Population
13.4K
Coordinates
-21.21, -159.78
Timezone
Pacific/Rarotonga
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Avarua
Languages
English, Cook Islands Māori
Currency
CKD ($), NZD ($)
Country area
236 km²
Avarua, Cook Islands (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Pacific/Rarotonga (CKT, UTC-10:00); population ~13.4K.
Coordinates: 21.21°S, 159.78°W. Southern Hemisphere tropics, ~2354 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 07:09 AM and sets around 06:04 PM in Avarua — about 10h 55m of daylight. Cook Islands stays on standard time here, so UTC-10:00 is stable through the year.
Alofi (1086 km from Avarua) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Cook Islands.
Avarua is indexed as a Oceania city in the CK country record, using Pacific/Rarotonga as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/cook-islands/avarua/.
Location context: 21.21°S, 159.78°W; population 13,373; nearest indexed city Alofi is about 1086 km away; closest reference hub is Sydney, about 4,984 km away.
Country planning context: capital Avarua; subregion Polynesia; languages English, Cook Islands Māori; currency CKD ($), NZD ($); area 236 km²; 0 curated airport references; no upcoming holiday signal currently in view.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (-10:00) is constant year-round.
Avarua is listed in the dataset snapshot as 10 hours behind UTC (offset -10:00). 11 hours behind London, 19 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -159.78°, Avarua's mean solar noon falls about 39 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Avarua sits at 21.21°S, in the southern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Related clock anchors for Avarua: Sydney (+20h), Tokyo (+19h), São Paulo (+7h), Johannesburg (+12h), Mumbai (+15.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
cook-islands
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
CKT
IANA Zone
Pacific/Rarotonga
UTC Offset
UTC-10:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC-10:00
Cook Islands, United States, French Polynesia
London
+11h
New York
+6h
Los Angeles
+3h
Dubai
+14h
Singapore
+18h
Tokyo
+19h
Sydney
+20h
São Paulo
+7h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Avarua.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Avarua: closest hubs Sydney (~4,984 km), Los Angeles (~7,554 km), Tokyo (~8,977 km); farthest indexed hub Dubai (~16,416 km).
Avarua sits inside Cook Islands — the Polynesia subregion, capital Avarua, languages English, Cook Islands Māori, currency CKD ($), NZD ($).
Closest indexed cities to Avarua: Alofi (1086 km), Punaauia (1138 km), Faaa (1141 km), Papeete (1146 km).
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Avarua, so this page falls back to timezone and regional planning context instead of showing a broken travel panel.
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
0 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:45 AM | +11h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:45 AM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:45 AM | +3h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:45 PM | +14h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:45 PM | +18h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:45 PM | +19h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:45 PM | +20h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:45 AM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
Alofi
Niue
Approx. 1086 km away
Punaauia
French Polynesia
Approx. 1138 km away
Faaa
French Polynesia
Approx. 1141 km away
Papeete
French Polynesia
Approx. 1146 km away
Pago Pago
American Samoa
Approx. 1389 km away
Apia
Samoa
Approx. 1512 km away
Nuku‘alofa
Tonga
Approx. 1599 km away
Mata-Utu
Wallis & Futuna
Approx. 1950 km away
Avarua is in the Pacific/Rarotonga timezone (CKT), with a UTC offset of -10:00.
Avarua does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC-10:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Avarua is UTC-10:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Avarua, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 00:45 GMT-10. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Avarua sits at 21.21°S, 159.78°W in Cook Islands, with about 13.4K residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Avarua is Sydney, about 4,984 km away as the crow flies.
Alofi is the closest indexed city, roughly 1086 km from Avarua.
Avarua uses Cook Islands dollar (CKD, symbol $) as the local currency of Cook Islands.
The longest day of 2026 in Avarua falls on Dec 14 with about 13h 25m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 19 with 10h 50m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
In Avarua local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 03:00-11:00; London 22:00-06:00 (next day); Frankfurt 21:00-05:00 (next day); Dubai 19:00-03:00 (next day). These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.