Indexed entity
Wellington is the wellington-NZ record in New Zealand: country slug new-zealand, city slug wellington, ISO NZ, continent Oceania, canonical IANA zone Pacific/Auckland.
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Live local time
Wellington, New Zealand
11:26:11 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Pacific/Auckland
Quick answer
It is currently 11:26:11 PM (NZST, UTC+12:00) in Wellington, New Zealand — Late evening.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
14°C
Partly cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
15°C
12°C
Wed
14°C
11°C
Thu
14°C
10°C
In 38 days
Matariki
Fri, Jul 10, 2026
PublicIn 146 days
Mon, Oct 26, 2026
PublicIn 206 days
Fri, Dec 25, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
New Zealand Dollar
1 USD = 1.709 NZD
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
07:37 AM
Sunset
04:59 PM
Day length
9h 22m
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 Wellington, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 11:26 AM UTC.
Current local time
11:26:11 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
NZST
Pacific/Auckland · UTC+12:00
Next holiday
Matariki
Friday, July 10, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Wellington right now
Nearest airport
WLG
Wellington International Airport · 5 km
Indexed airports
3
Curated airport references available for New Zealand
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Wellington, New Zealand.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 23:26 GMT+12
No reference-city overlap right now
Wellington is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC+12:00
Zone label
GMT+12
London
12:26 PM / -11h
New York
07:26 AM / -16h
Los Angeles
04:26 AM / -19h
Schedule risk
Matariki on Friday, July 10, 2026
Travel cue
WLG Wellington, 5 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 07:37 AM to 04:59 PM, with solar noon around 12:18 PM and total daylight of 9h 22m.
Mapped location
41.29°S, 174.78°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
12:26 PM / -11h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
07:26 AM / -16h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
04:26 AM / -19h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
03:26 PM / -8h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
07:26 PM / -4h
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 Wellington.
WLG · Wellington International Airport
Wellington
CHC · Christchurch International Airport
Christchurch
AKL · Auckland International Airport
Auckland
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Pacific/Auckland for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+12:00; seasonal offset, UTC+13:00 in January and UTC+12:00 in July.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps Wellington right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
Matariki on Friday, July 10, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: WLG Wellington, 5 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
Next detected clock change: September 27, 2026, moving forward from 2026-09-27 01:59 (GMT+12) to 2026-09-27 03:00 (GMT+13).
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Wellington has a detected clock-change edge. Re-check recurring meetings within two weeks of September 27, 2026, especially if the other city does not change clocks on the same weekend.
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 Wellington.
Canonical route
/time/new-zealand/wellington/
Catalog identity
wellington-NZ · NZ · Oceania
Coordinate cell
41.29°S, 174.78°E · lat -41.287 · lon 174.776 · cell -4129:17478
Population record
381,900 residents · country rank 3
Zone snapshot
Pacific/Auckland · GMT+12 · UTC+12:00
January / July offsets
UTC+13:00 / UTC+12:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Christchurch, New Zealand · 305 km
Nearest world hub
Sydney · 2,226 km
Closest airport references
WLG Wellington 5 km · CHC Christchurch 306 km · AKL Auckland 475 km
Zone peer roster
Auckland, New Zealand · Christchurch, New Zealand · Manukau City, New Zealand
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Wellington: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Wellington is the wellington-NZ record in New Zealand: country slug new-zealand, city slug wellington, ISO NZ, continent Oceania, canonical IANA zone Pacific/Auckland.
41.29°S, 174.78°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -42 and longitude band 174; exact decimal pair -41.28664, 174.77557.
New Zealand: official name New Zealand; capital Wellington; region Oceania; subregion Australia and New Zealand; country population 5,324,700; area 268,838 km²; languages English, Māori, New Zealand Sign Language; currencies NZD New Zealand dollar. This is the country layer behind the Wellington clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
New Zealand: New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island and the South Island —and over 600 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area and lies east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. Source: Wikipedia.
Christchurch [christchurch-NZ, NZ, Pacific/Auckland, 305 km]; Manukau City [manukau-city-NZ, NZ, Pacific/Auckland, 478 km]; Auckland [auckland-NZ, NZ, Pacific/Auckland, 493 km]; Kingston [kingston-NF, NF, Pacific/Norfolk, 1493 km]; Sydney [sydney-AU, AU, Australia/Sydney, 2226 km]; Newcastle [newcastle-AU, AU, Australia/Sydney, 2232 km]; Mont-Dore [mont-dore-NC, NC, Pacific/Noumea, 2251 km]; Nouméa [noumea-NC, NC, Pacific/Noumea, 2253 km]
Wellington is part of this indexed country cluster: Auckland [auckland-NZ, Pacific/Auckland, pop 1,530,500]; Christchurch [christchurch-NZ, Pacific/Auckland, pop 412,000]; Wellington [wellington-NZ, Pacific/Auckland, pop 381,900]; Manukau City [manukau-city-NZ, Pacific/Auckland, pop 362,000]; Chatham [chatham-NZ, Pacific/Chatham].
Sydney 2,226 km; Singapore 8,532 km; Tokyo 9,277 km; Los Angeles 10,813 km; São Paulo 11,637 km; Dubai 14,234 km; New York 14,403 km; London 18,814 km
WLG Wellington International Airport in Wellington [NZ, 5 km]; CHC Christchurch International Airport in Christchurch [NZ, 306 km]; AKL Auckland International Airport in Auckland [NZ, 475 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include AKL Auckland International Airport in Auckland [NZ]; CHC Christchurch International Airport in Christchurch [NZ]; WLG Wellington International Airport in Wellington [NZ].
Wellington renders Jun 2, 2026 · 23:26 GMT+12; GMT+12 at UTC+12:00; January UTC+13:00; July UTC+12:00; next holiday Matariki on 2026-07-10.
This evidence pack keeps the manual city dossier tied to the concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Wellington.
Wellington is a manual-dossier city; rank #3 of 5 retained New Zealand city pages. The route is /time/new-zealand/wellington/ and the city id is wellington-NZ.
Wellington has 16 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.
Wellington is pinned at 41.29°S, 174.78°E; Christchurch (305 km); Sydney (2,226 km).
Pacific/Auckland resolves to seasonal offset split: UTC+13:00 in January and UTC+12:00 in July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside New Zealand.
WLG Wellington International Airport (5 km) · Matariki (Friday, July 10, 2026) · 3 country airport references · 23 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Wellington 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.
Wellington: Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the third-largest city in New Zealand, and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region. It is the world's southernmost capital of a sovereign state. Wellington features a temperate maritime climate, and is the world's windiest city by average wind speed.
New Zealand has observed daylight saving time since 1974 and remains one of the few southern-hemisphere countries to do so.
New Zealand has observed daylight saving time since 1974 and remains one of the few southern-hemisphere countries to do so.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC+12:00 and summer UTC+13:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone Pacific/Auckland.
Wellington is listed in the dataset snapshot as 12 hours ahead of UTC (offset +12:00). 11 hours ahead of London, 3 hours ahead of Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 174.78°, Wellington's mean solar noon falls about 21 minutes after civil 12:00 under the sampled +12:00 civil offset; during the alternate seasonal offset this shifts by about one hour on the clock — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
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 21 (15h 10m)
Shortest day
Jun 20 (9h 11m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
5h 59m
See the full daylight curve for Wellington at /sun/wellington/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Wellington local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Wellington |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 01:00 - 09:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 20:00 - 04:00 (next day) |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 19:00 - 03:00 (next day) |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 17:00 - 01:00 (next day) |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 15:30 - 23:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 13:00 - 21:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 13:00 - 21:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 12:00 - 20:00 |
IANA time zones in country
2
Public holidays in 2026
23
Capital status
National capital of New Zealand
Wellington is the capital of New Zealand and the country's political centre, with about 215,000 residents in the city proper and roughly 440,000 in the Greater Wellington metropolitan area. New Zealand Standard Time (NZST, UTC+12) and New Zealand Daylight Time (NZDT, UTC+13) apply, with DST running from the last Sunday in September to the first Sunday in April. Wellington is the southernmost capital of a sovereign state in the world (at about 41.3°S) and one of the windiest major cities globally, due to its location at the narrowing of Cook Strait between the North and South Islands. The city houses the New Zealand Parliament (the Beehive executive wing dating to 1979), the Supreme Court, the Reserve Bank, and Te Papa Tongarewa, the country's national museum opened in 1998. Wellington is also the headquarters of the New Zealand film industry, home to Weta Workshop and the bulk of the Lord of the Rings production crew.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-11 (manual).
Reference fields include Wellington's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 11:26:11 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Wellington (UTC+12:00, NZST).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
07:37 AM to 04:59 PM
Day length 9h 22m · Solar noon 12:18 PM
Next country holiday
Matariki
Friday, July 10, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Wellington local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
381.9K
Coordinates
-41.29, 174.78
Timezone
Pacific/Auckland
Indexed airports
3
Capital
Wellington
Languages
English, Māori
Currency
NZD ($)
Country area
268,838 km²
Wellington, New Zealand (population rank #3 in this dataset). Time zone: Pacific/Auckland (NZST, UTC+12:00); population ~381.9K.
Coordinates: 41.29°S, 174.78°E. Southern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, ~4583 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 07:37 AM and sets around 04:59 PM in Wellington — about 9h 22m of daylight. New Zealand stays on standard time here, so UTC+12:00 is stable through the year.
Christchurch (305 km from Wellington) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 3 curated airport pages indexed for New Zealand.
Next national holiday: Matariki, 2026-07-10.
Wellington is indexed as a Oceania city in the NZ country record, using Pacific/Auckland as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/new-zealand/wellington/.
Location context: 41.29°S, 174.78°E; population 381,900; nearest indexed city Christchurch is about 305 km away; closest reference hub is Sydney, about 2,226 km away.
Country planning context: capital Wellington; subregion Australia and New Zealand; languages English, Māori, New Zealand Sign Language; currency NZD ($); area 268,838 km²; 3 curated airport references; next holiday Matariki on 2026-07-10.
New Zealand has observed daylight saving time since 1974 and remains one of the few southern-hemisphere countries to do so.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC+12:00 and summer UTC+13:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone Pacific/Auckland.
Wellington is listed in the dataset snapshot as 12 hours ahead of UTC (offset +12:00). 11 hours ahead of London, 3 hours ahead of Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 174.78°, Wellington's mean solar noon falls about 21 minutes after civil 12:00 under the sampled +12:00 civil offset; during the alternate seasonal offset this shifts by about one hour on the clock — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Wellington sits at 41.29°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 9 hours 1 minute on the December solstice and about 14 hours 59 minutes on the June solstice.
Mid-sized city with around 382 thousand residents — busy enough to keep regular international business hours, small enough to retain a regional character. (Wellington city-proper figure.)
Related clock anchors for Wellington: Auckland (same time), San Francisco (−19h), Los Angeles (−19h), Sydney (−2h), Mumbai (−6.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
new-zealand
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
NZST
IANA Zone
Pacific/Auckland
UTC Offset
UTC+12:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+12:00
Fiji, Kiribati, Russia, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Antarctica, Tuvalu
Other cities in this timezone
London
-11h
New York
-16h
Los Angeles
-19h
Dubai
-8h
Singapore
-4h
Tokyo
-3h
Sydney
-2h
São Paulo
-15h
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 Wellington.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Wellington: closest hubs Sydney (~2,226 km), Singapore (~8,532 km), Tokyo (~9,277 km); farthest indexed hub London (~18,814 km).
Wellington sits inside New Zealand — the Australia and New Zealand subregion, capital Wellington, languages English, Māori, New Zealand Sign Language, currency NZD ($).
Closest indexed cities to Wellington: Christchurch (305 km), Manukau City (478 km), Auckland (493 km), Kingston (1493 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Wellington: Matariki, Canterbury (South) Anniversary Day, Hawke's Bay Anniversary Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for New Zealand.
Closest curated airport references from Wellington: WLG Wellington (5 km), CHC Christchurch (306 km), AKL Auckland (475 km).
Wellington International AirportWLG
Wellington · 5 km from Wellington
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 45m
Christchurch International AirportCHC
Christchurch · 306 km from Wellington
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 9m
Auckland International AirportAKL
Auckland · 475 km from Wellington
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 22m
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 | 12:26 PM | -11h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 07:26 AM | -16h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 04:26 AM | -19h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 03:26 PM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 07:26 PM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 08:26 PM | -3h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 09:26 PM | -2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 08:26 AM | -15h | Check the overlap widget below |
Christchurch
New Zealand
Approx. 305 km away
Manukau City
New Zealand
Approx. 478 km away
Auckland
New Zealand
Approx. 493 km away
Kingston
Norfolk Island
Approx. 1493 km away
Sydney
Australia
Approx. 2226 km away
Newcastle
Australia
Approx. 2232 km away
Mont-Dore
New Caledonia
Approx. 2251 km away
Nouméa
New Caledonia
Approx. 2253 km away
Wellington is in the Pacific/Auckland timezone (NZST), with a UTC offset of +12:00.
Wellington uses seasonal daylight saving rules in Pacific/Auckland. The current offset is UTC+12:00; January resolves to UTC+13:00 and July resolves to UTC+12:00.
The current UTC offset for Wellington is UTC+12:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Wellington, 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 · 23:26 GMT+12. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Wellington sits at 41.29°S, 174.78°E in New Zealand, with about 381.9K residents (rank #3 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Wellington is Sydney, about 2,226 km away as the crow flies.
Christchurch is the closest indexed city, roughly 305 km from Wellington.
Wellington International Airport (WLG) is the closest curated airport reference, about 5 km from Wellington.
Matariki is the next upcoming holiday in New Zealand, on Friday, July 10, 2026.
Wellington uses New Zealand dollar (NZD, symbol $) as the local currency of New Zealand.
The longest day of 2026 in Wellington falls on Dec 21 with about 15h 10m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 20 with 9h 11m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
New Zealand spans 2 IANA time zones in total; Wellington's canonical zone for this page is Pacific/Auckland.
In Wellington local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 01:00-09:00; London 20:00-04:00 (next day); Frankfurt 19:00-03:00 (next day); Dubai 17:00-01:00 (next day). These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.