Indexed entity
Arawa is the arawa-PG record in Papua New Guinea: country slug papua-new-guinea, city slug arawa, ISO PG, continent Oceania, canonical IANA zone Pacific/Bougainville.
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Live local time
Arawa, Papua New Guinea
09:47:31 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Pacific/Bougainville
Quick answer
It is currently 09:47:31 PM (BST, UTC+11:00) in Arawa, Papua New Guinea — Evening.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
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In 6 days
Queen's Birthday
Mon, Jun 8, 2026
PublicIn 51 days
Remembrance Day
Thu, Jul 23, 2026
PublicIn 85 days
Repentance Day
Wed, Aug 26, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
PGK
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Today
Sunrise
06:42 AM
Sunset
06:29 PM
Day length
11h 47m
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 Arawa, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:47 AM UTC.
Current local time
09:47:31 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
BST
Pacific/Bougainville · UTC+11:00
Next holiday
Queen's Birthday
Monday, June 8, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Arawa right now
Nearest airport
LAE
Nadzab Tomodachi International Airport · 977 km
Indexed airports
2
Curated airport references available for Papua New Guinea
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Arawa, Papua New Guinea.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 21:47 GMT+11
No reference-city overlap right now
Arawa is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC+11:00
Zone label
GMT+11
London
11:47 AM / -10h
New York
06:47 AM / -15h
Los Angeles
03:47 AM / -18h
Schedule risk
Queen's Birthday on Monday, June 8, 2026
Travel cue
LAE Lae, 977 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:42 AM to 06:29 PM, with solar noon around 12:36 PM and total daylight of 11h 47m.
Mapped location
6.23°S, 155.57°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:47 AM / -10h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:47 AM / -15h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:47 AM / -18h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:47 PM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:47 PM / -3h
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 Arawa.
LAE · Nadzab Tomodachi International Airport
Lae
POM · Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport
Port Moresby
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Pacific/Bougainville for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+11:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+11:00.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps Arawa right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
Queen's Birthday on Monday, June 8, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: LAE Lae, 977 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Pacific/Bougainville. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Arawa has no near-term DST change in view, but Queen's Birthday can still affect office coverage and local response times.
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 Arawa.
Canonical route
/time/papua-new-guinea/arawa/
Catalog identity
arawa-PG · PG · Oceania
Coordinate cell
6.23°S, 155.57°E · lat -6.230 · lon 155.566 · cell -623:15557
Population record
40,266 residents · country rank 3
Zone snapshot
Pacific/Bougainville · GMT+11 · UTC+11:00
January / July offsets
UTC+11:00 / UTC+11:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Nggosi, Solomon Islands · 597 km
Nearest world hub
Sydney · 3,106 km
Closest airport references
LAE Lae 977 km · POM Port Moresby 986 km
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Arawa: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Arawa is the arawa-PG record in Papua New Guinea: country slug papua-new-guinea, city slug arawa, ISO PG, continent Oceania, canonical IANA zone Pacific/Bougainville.
6.23°S, 155.57°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -7 and longitude band 155; exact decimal pair -6.22977, 155.56598.
Papua New Guinea: official name Independent State of Papua New Guinea; capital Port Moresby; region Oceania; subregion Melanesia; country population 11,781,559; area 462,840 km²; languages English, Hiri Motu, Tok Pisin; currencies PGK Papua New Guinean kina. This is the country layer behind the Arawa clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Papua New Guinea: Papua New Guinea (PNG), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. It has a land border with Indonesia to the west and maritime borders with Australia to the south and the Solomon Islands to the east. Its capital is Port Moresby. The country's 462,840 km2 (178,700 mi2) includes a large mainland and hundreds of islands. Source: Wikipedia.
Nggosi [nggosi-SB, SB, Pacific/Guadalcanal, 597 km]; Honiara [honiara-SB, SB, Pacific/Guadalcanal, 600 km]; Tandai [tandai-SB, SB, Pacific/Guadalcanal, 601 km]; Panatina [panatina-SB, SB, Pacific/Guadalcanal, 605 km]; Popondetta [popondetta-PG, PG, Pacific/Port_Moresby, 856 km]; Lae [lae-PG, PG, Pacific/Port_Moresby, 948 km]; Port Moresby [port-moresby-PG, PG, Pacific/Port_Moresby, 995 km]; Mount Hagen [mount-hagen-PG, PG, Pacific/Port_Moresby, 1254 km]
Arawa is part of this indexed country cluster: Port Moresby [port-moresby-PG, Pacific/Port_Moresby, pop 283,733]; Lae [lae-PG, Pacific/Port_Moresby, pop 76,255]; Arawa [arawa-PG, Pacific/Bougainville, pop 40,266]; Mount Hagen [mount-hagen-PG, Pacific/Port_Moresby, pop 33,623]; Popondetta [popondetta-PG, Pacific/Port_Moresby, pop 28,198].
Sydney 3,106 km; Tokyo 4,948 km; Singapore 5,806 km; Los Angeles 10,046 km; Dubai 11,336 km; New York 13,790 km; London 14,506 km; São Paulo 15,919 km
LAE Nadzab Tomodachi International Airport in Lae [PG, 977 km]; POM Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport in Port Moresby [PG, 986 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include LAE Nadzab Tomodachi International Airport in Lae [PG]; POM Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport in Port Moresby [PG].
Arawa renders Jun 2, 2026 · 21:47 GMT+11; GMT+11 at UTC+11:00; January UTC+11:00; July UTC+11:00; next holiday Queen's Birthday on 2026-06-08.
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 Arawa.
Arawa is a context-and-reference city; rank #3 of 5 retained Papua New Guinea city pages. The route is /time/papua-new-guinea/arawa/ and the city id is arawa-PG.
Arawa has 14 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.
Arawa is pinned at 6.23°S, 155.57°E; Nggosi (597 km); Sydney (3,106 km).
Pacific/Bougainville resolves to stable UTC+11:00 offset across January and July. 0 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Papua New Guinea.
LAE Nadzab Tomodachi International Airport (977 km) · Queen's Birthday (Monday, June 8, 2026) · 2 country airport references · 11 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Arawa 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.
Arawa, Bougainville: Arawa is the largest town and the former capital of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. It is administered under Arawa Rural LLG.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+11:00) is constant year-round.
Arawa is listed in the dataset snapshot as 11 hours ahead of UTC (offset +11:00). 10 hours ahead of London, 2 hours ahead of Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 155.57°, Arawa's mean solar noon falls about 38 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.
Arawa sits at 6.23°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Arawa sits at 6.23°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
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
Jan 1 (12h 29m)
Shortest day
Jun 5 (11h 46m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
0h 43m
See the full daylight curve for Arawa at /sun/arawa/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Arawa local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Arawa |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 00:00 - 08:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 19:00 - 03:00 (next day) |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 18:00 - 02:00 (next day) |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 16:00 - 00:00 (next day) |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 14:30 - 22:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 12:00 - 20:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 12:00 - 20:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 11:00 - 19:00 |
IANA time zones in country
2
Public holidays in 2026
11
Reference fields include Arawa's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 09:47:31 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Arawa (UTC+11:00, BST).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:42 AM to 06:29 PM
Day length 11h 47m · Solar noon 12:36 PM
Next country holiday
Queen's Birthday
Monday, June 8, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Arawa local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
keynoteSunday, December 6, 2026
187 days to go
Xbox Games Showcase 2026
keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
Code with Claude Tokyo 2026
keynoteWednesday, June 10, 2026
8 days to go
ICML 2026
keynoteMonday, July 6, 2026
34 days to go
Population
40.3K
Coordinates
-6.23, 155.57
Timezone
Pacific/Bougainville
Indexed airports
2
Capital
Port Moresby
Languages
English, Hiri Motu
Currency
PGK (K)
Country area
462,840 km²
Arawa, Papua New Guinea (population rank #3 in this dataset). Time zone: Pacific/Bougainville (BST, UTC+11:00); population ~40.3K.
Coordinates: 6.23°S, 155.57°E. Southern Hemisphere deep tropics, ~692 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:42 AM and sets around 06:29 PM in Arawa — about 11h 47m of daylight. Papua New Guinea stays on standard time here, so UTC+11:00 is stable through the year.
Nggosi (597 km from Arawa) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 2 curated airport pages indexed for Papua New Guinea.
Next national holiday: Queen's Birthday, 2026-06-08.
Arawa is indexed as a Oceania city in the PG country record, using Pacific/Bougainville as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/papua-new-guinea/arawa/.
Location context: 6.23°S, 155.57°E; population 40,266; nearest indexed city Nggosi is about 597 km away; closest reference hub is Sydney, about 3,106 km away.
Country planning context: capital Port Moresby; subregion Melanesia; languages English, Hiri Motu, Tok Pisin; currency PGK (K); area 462,840 km²; 2 curated airport references; next holiday Queen's Birthday on 2026-06-08.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+11:00) is constant year-round.
Arawa is listed in the dataset snapshot as 11 hours ahead of UTC (offset +11:00). 10 hours ahead of London, 2 hours ahead of Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 155.57°, Arawa's mean solar noon falls about 38 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.
Arawa sits at 6.23°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Related clock anchors for Arawa: Port Moresby (−1h), San Francisco (−18h), Los Angeles (−18h), Singapore (−3h), Mumbai (−5.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
papua-new-guinea
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
BST
IANA Zone
Pacific/Bougainville
UTC Offset
UTC+11:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+11:00
Papua New Guinea, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, Russia, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
London
-10h
New York
-15h
Los Angeles
-18h
Dubai
-7h
Singapore
-3h
Tokyo
-2h
Sydney
-1h
São Paulo
-14h
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 Arawa.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Arawa: closest hubs Sydney (~3,106 km), Tokyo (~4,948 km), Singapore (~5,806 km); farthest indexed hub São Paulo (~15,919 km).
Arawa sits inside Papua New Guinea — the Melanesia subregion, capital Port Moresby, languages English, Hiri Motu, Tok Pisin, currency PGK (K).
Closest indexed cities to Arawa: Nggosi (597 km), Honiara (600 km), Tandai (601 km), Panatina (605 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Arawa: Queen's Birthday, Remembrance Day, Repentance Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Papua New Guinea.
Closest curated airport references from Arawa: LAE Lae (977 km), POM Port Moresby (986 km).
Nadzab Tomodachi International AirportLAE
Lae · 977 km from Arawa
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 0m
Port Moresby Jacksons International AirportPOM
Port Moresby · 986 km from Arawa
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 1m
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 | 11:47 AM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:47 AM | -15h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:47 AM | -18h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:47 PM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:47 PM | -3h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:47 PM | -2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:47 PM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:47 AM | -14h | Check the overlap widget below |
Nggosi
Solomon Islands
Approx. 597 km away
Honiara
Solomon Islands
Approx. 600 km away
Tandai
Solomon Islands
Approx. 601 km away
Panatina
Solomon Islands
Approx. 605 km away
Popondetta
Papua New Guinea
Approx. 856 km away
Lae
Papua New Guinea
Approx. 948 km away
Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea
Approx. 995 km away
Mount Hagen
Papua New Guinea
Approx. 1254 km away
Arawa is in the Pacific/Bougainville timezone (BST), with a UTC offset of +11:00.
Arawa does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+11:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Arawa is UTC+11:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Arawa, 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 · 21:47 GMT+11. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Arawa sits at 6.23°S, 155.57°E in Papua New Guinea, with about 40.3K residents (rank #3 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Arawa is Sydney, about 3,106 km away as the crow flies.
Nggosi is the closest indexed city, roughly 597 km from Arawa.
Nadzab Tomodachi International Airport (LAE) is the closest curated airport reference, about 977 km from Arawa.
Queen's Birthday is the next upcoming holiday in Papua New Guinea, on Monday, June 8, 2026.
Arawa uses Papua New Guinean kina (PGK, symbol K) as the local currency of Papua New Guinea.
The longest day of 2026 in Arawa falls on Jan 1 with about 12h 29m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 5 with 11h 46m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
Papua New Guinea spans 2 IANA time zones in total; Arawa's canonical zone for this page is Pacific/Bougainville.
In Arawa local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 00:00-08:00; London 19:00-03:00 (next day); Frankfurt 18:00-02:00 (next day); Dubai 16:00-00:00 (next day). These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.