Indexed entity
Lae is the lae-PG record in Papua New Guinea: country slug papua-new-guinea, city slug lae, ISO PG, continent Oceania, canonical IANA zone Pacific/Port_Moresby.
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Live local time
Lae, Papua New Guinea
08:45:30 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Pacific/Port_Moresby
Quick answer
It is currently 08:45:30 PM (PGT, UTC+10:00) in Lae, Papua New Guinea — Evening.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
27°C
Drizzle
3-day forecast
Tue
28°C
23°C
99% rain
Wed
27°C
25°C
99% rain
Thu
28°C
25°C
100% rain
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
Live ECB rate not available for this currency.
Conversion rates aren’t published for this currency by the ECB. The local code is shown for reference.
Today
Sunrise
06:17 AM
Sunset
06:02 PM
Day length
11h 45m
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 Lae, 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
08:45:30 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
PGT
Pacific/Port_Moresby · UTC+10:00
Next holiday
Queen's Birthday
Monday, June 8, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Lae right now
Nearest airport
LAE
Nadzab Tomodachi International Airport · 34 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 Lae, Papua New Guinea.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 20:45 GMT+10
No reference-city overlap right now
Lae 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 / -9h
New York
06:45 AM / -14h
Los Angeles
03:45 AM / -17h
Schedule risk
Queen's Birthday on Monday, June 8, 2026
Travel cue
LAE Lae, 34 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:17 AM to 06:02 PM, with solar noon around 12:10 PM and total daylight of 11h 45m.
Mapped location
6.72°S, 147.00°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:45 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:45 AM / -14h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:45 AM / -17h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:45 PM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:45 PM / -2h
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 Lae.
LAE · Nadzab Tomodachi International Airport
Lae
POM · Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport
Port Moresby
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Pacific/Port_Moresby 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 Lae 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, 34 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Pacific/Port_Moresby. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Lae 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 Lae.
Canonical route
/time/papua-new-guinea/lae/
Catalog identity
lae-PG · PG · Oceania
Coordinate cell
6.72°S, 147.00°E · lat -6.723 · lon 146.996 · cell -672:14700
Population record
76,255 residents · country rank 2
Zone snapshot
Pacific/Port_Moresby · GMT+10 · UTC+10:00
January / July offsets
UTC+10:00 / UTC+10:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Popondetta, Papua New Guinea · 265 km
Nearest world hub
Sydney · 3,049 km
Closest airport references
LAE Lae 34 km · POM Port Moresby 303 km
Zone peer roster
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea · Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea · Popondetta, Papua New Guinea
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Lae: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Lae is the lae-PG record in Papua New Guinea: country slug papua-new-guinea, city slug lae, ISO PG, continent Oceania, canonical IANA zone Pacific/Port_Moresby.
6.72°S, 147.00°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -7 and longitude band 146; exact decimal pair -6.72333, 146.99611.
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 Lae 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.
Popondetta [popondetta-PG, PG, Pacific/Port_Moresby, 265 km]; Port Moresby [port-moresby-PG, PG, Pacific/Port_Moresby, 307 km]; Mount Hagen [mount-hagen-PG, PG, Pacific/Port_Moresby, 320 km]; Jayapura [jayapura-ID, ID, Asia/Jayapura, 837 km]; Arawa [arawa-PG, PG, Pacific/Bougainville, 948 km]; Nggosi [nggosi-SB, SB, Pacific/Guadalcanal, 1454 km]; Tandai [tandai-SB, SB, Pacific/Guadalcanal, 1457 km]; Honiara [honiara-SB, SB, Pacific/Guadalcanal, 1457 km]
Lae 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 3,049 km; Tokyo 4,777 km; Singapore 4,875 km; Dubai 10,498 km; Los Angeles 10,863 km; London 14,194 km; New York 14,469 km; São Paulo 16,338 km
LAE Nadzab Tomodachi International Airport in Lae [PG, 34 km]; POM Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport in Port Moresby [PG, 303 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].
Lae renders Jun 2, 2026 · 20:45 GMT+10; GMT+10 at UTC+10:00; January UTC+10:00; July UTC+10:00; 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 Lae.
Lae is a context-and-reference city; rank #2 of 5 retained Papua New Guinea city pages. The route is /time/papua-new-guinea/lae/ and the city id is lae-PG.
Lae has 15 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.
Lae is pinned at 6.72°S, 147.00°E; Popondetta (265 km); Sydney (3,049 km).
Pacific/Port_Moresby resolves to stable UTC+10:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Papua New Guinea.
LAE Nadzab Tomodachi International Airport (34 km) · Queen's Birthday (Monday, June 8, 2026) · 2 country airport references · 11 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Lae 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.
Lae: Lae is the capital of Morobe Province and is the second-largest city in Papua New Guinea. It is located near the delta of the Markham River on the northern coast of Huon Gulf. It is at the start of the Highlands Highway, which is the main land transport corridor between the Highlands Region and the coast. Lae is the largest cargo port of the country and is the industrial hub of Papua New Guinea. The city is known as the Garden City and home of the Papua New Guinea University of Technology.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+10:00) is constant year-round.
Lae is listed in the dataset snapshot as 10 hours ahead of UTC (offset +10:00). 9 hours ahead of London, 1 hour ahead of Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 147.00°, Lae's mean solar noon falls about 12 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.
Lae sits at 6.72°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Lae sits at 6.72°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
Dec 14 (12h 31m)
Shortest day
Jun 8 (11h 44m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
0h 47m
See the full daylight curve for Lae at /sun/lae/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Lae local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Lae |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 23:00 - 07:00 (next day) |
| London | Europe/London | 18:00 - 02:00 (next day) |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 17:00 - 01:00 (next day) |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 15:00 - 23:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 13:30 - 21:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 11:00 - 19:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 11:00 - 19:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 10:00 - 18:00 |
IANA time zones in country
2
Public holidays in 2026
11
Reference fields include Lae's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 08:45:30 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Lae (UTC+10:00, PGT).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:17 AM to 06:02 PM
Day length 11h 45m · Solar noon 12:10 PM
Next country holiday
Queen's Birthday
Monday, June 8, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Lae local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Adobe MAX 2026
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NeurIPS 2026
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187 days to go
Population
76.3K
Coordinates
-6.72, 147.00
Timezone
Pacific/Port_Moresby
Indexed airports
2
Capital
Port Moresby
Languages
English, Hiri Motu
Currency
PGK (K)
Country area
462,840 km²
Lae, Papua New Guinea (population rank #2 in this dataset). Time zone: Pacific/Port_Moresby (PGT, UTC+10:00); population ~76.3K.
Coordinates: 6.72°S, 147.00°E. Southern Hemisphere deep tropics, ~746 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:17 AM and sets around 06:02 PM in Lae — about 11h 45m of daylight. Papua New Guinea stays on standard time here, so UTC+10:00 is stable through the year.
Popondetta (265 km from Lae) 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.
Lae is indexed as a Oceania city in the PG country record, using Pacific/Port_Moresby as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/papua-new-guinea/lae/.
Location context: 6.72°S, 147.00°E; population 76,255; nearest indexed city Popondetta is about 265 km away; closest reference hub is Sydney, about 3,049 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 (+10:00) is constant year-round.
Lae is listed in the dataset snapshot as 10 hours ahead of UTC (offset +10:00). 9 hours ahead of London, 1 hour ahead of Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 147.00°, Lae's mean solar noon falls about 12 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.
Lae sits at 6.72°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 Lae: Port Moresby (same time), San Francisco (−17h), Los Angeles (−17h), Kinshasa (−9h), Jakarta (−3h).
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
PGT
IANA Zone
Pacific/Port Moresby
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
Australia, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Micronesia, Antarctica, Papua New Guinea, Russia
Other cities in this timezone
London
-9h
New York
-14h
Los Angeles
-17h
Dubai
-6h
Singapore
-2h
Tokyo
-1h
Sydney
+0h
São Paulo
-13h
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 Lae.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Lae: closest hubs Sydney (~3,049 km), Tokyo (~4,777 km), Singapore (~4,875 km); farthest indexed hub São Paulo (~16,338 km).
Lae sits inside Papua New Guinea — the Melanesia subregion, capital Port Moresby, languages English, Hiri Motu, Tok Pisin, currency PGK (K).
Closest indexed cities to Lae: Popondetta (265 km), Port Moresby (307 km), Mount Hagen (320 km), Jayapura (837 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Lae: 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 Lae: LAE Lae (34 km), POM Port Moresby (303 km).
Nadzab Tomodachi International AirportLAE
Lae · 34 km from Lae
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 48m
Port Moresby Jacksons International AirportPOM
Port Moresby · 303 km from Lae
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 8m
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 | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:45 AM | -14h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:45 AM | -17h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:45 PM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:45 PM | -2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:45 PM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:45 PM | +0h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:45 AM | -13h | Check the overlap widget below |
Popondetta
Papua New Guinea
Approx. 265 km away
Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea
Approx. 307 km away
Mount Hagen
Papua New Guinea
Approx. 320 km away
Jayapura
Indonesia
Approx. 837 km away
Arawa
Papua New Guinea
Approx. 948 km away
Nggosi
Solomon Islands
Approx. 1454 km away
Tandai
Solomon Islands
Approx. 1457 km away
Honiara
Solomon Islands
Approx. 1457 km away
Lae is in the Pacific/Port_Moresby timezone (PGT), with a UTC offset of +10:00.
Lae 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 Lae is UTC+10:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Lae, 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 · 20:45 GMT+10. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Lae sits at 6.72°S, 147.00°E in Papua New Guinea, with about 76.3K residents (rank #2 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Lae is Sydney, about 3,049 km away as the crow flies.
Popondetta is the closest indexed city, roughly 265 km from Lae.
Nadzab Tomodachi International Airport (LAE) is the closest curated airport reference, about 34 km from Lae.
Queen's Birthday is the next upcoming holiday in Papua New Guinea, on Monday, June 8, 2026.
Lae uses Papua New Guinean kina (PGK, symbol K) as the local currency of Papua New Guinea.
The longest day of 2026 in Lae falls on Dec 14 with about 12h 31m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 8 with 11h 44m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
Papua New Guinea spans 2 IANA time zones in total; Lae's canonical zone for this page is Pacific/Port_Moresby.
In Lae local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 23:00-07:00 (next day); London 18:00-02:00 (next day); Frankfurt 17:00-01:00 (next day); Dubai 15:00-23:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.