Indexed entity
Honiara is the honiara-SB record in Solomon Islands: country slug solomon-islands, city slug honiara, ISO SB, continent Oceania, canonical IANA zone Pacific/Guadalcanal.
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Live local time
Honiara, Solomon Islands
09:46:58 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Pacific/Guadalcanal
Quick answer
It is currently 09:46:58 PM (SBT, UTC+11:00) in Honiara, Solomon Islands — Evening.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
28°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
30°C
25°C
33% rain
Wed
30°C
25°C
65% rain
Thu
30°C
24°C
73% rain
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
SBD
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
06:30 AM
Sunset
06:06 PM
Day length
11h 36m
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 Honiara, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:46 AM UTC.
Current local time
09:46:58 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
SBT
Pacific/Guadalcanal · UTC+11:00
Next holiday
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Honiara right now
Nearest airport
HIR
Honiara International Airport · 12 km
Indexed airports
1
Curated airport references available for Solomon Islands
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Honiara, Solomon Islands.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 21:46 GMT+11
No reference-city overlap right now
Honiara 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
11:46 AM / -10h
New York
06:46 AM / -15h
Los Angeles
03:46 AM / -18h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
HIR Honiara, 12 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:30 AM to 06:06 PM, with solar noon around 12:18 PM and total daylight of 11h 36m.
Mapped location
9.43°S, 159.95°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:46 AM / -10h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:46 AM / -15h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:46 AM / -18h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:46 PM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:46 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 Honiara.
HIR · Honiara International Airport
Honiara
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Pacific/Guadalcanal 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 Honiara right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest curated airport reference: HIR Honiara, 12 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Pacific/Guadalcanal. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Honiara 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 Honiara.
Canonical route
/time/solomon-islands/honiara/
Catalog identity
honiara-SB · SB · Oceania
Coordinate cell
9.43°S, 159.95°E · lat -9.433 · lon 159.950 · cell -943:15995
Population record
56,298 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Pacific/Guadalcanal · GMT+11 · UTC+11:00
January / July offsets
UTC+11:00 / UTC+11:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Tandai, Solomon Islands · 2 km
Nearest world hub
Sydney · 2,860 km
Closest airport references
HIR Honiara 12 km
Zone peer roster
Panatina, Solomon Islands · Nggosi, Solomon Islands · Tandai, Solomon Islands
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Honiara: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Honiara is the honiara-SB record in Solomon Islands: country slug solomon-islands, city slug honiara, ISO SB, continent Oceania, canonical IANA zone Pacific/Guadalcanal.
9.43°S, 159.95°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -10 and longitude band 159; exact decimal pair -9.43333, 159.95000.
Solomon Islands: official name Solomon Islands; capital Honiara; region Oceania; subregion Melanesia; country population 750,325; area 28,896 km²; languages English; currencies SBD Solomon Islands dollar. This is the country layer behind the Honiara clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Solomon Islands: Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons, is an archipelagic country consisting of six major islands and over 1,000 smaller islands in Melanesia, Oceania, to the north-east of Australia. It is adjacent to Bougainville to the west, New Caledonia and Vanuatu to the south-east, Fiji, Tuvalu, and Wallis and Futuna to the east, and the Federated States of Micronesia and Nauru to the north. It has a total area of 28,896 square kilometres, and a population of 828,857 according to official estimates from 2025. Its capital and largest city, Honiara, is located on the largest island, Guadalcanal. The country takes its name from the wider area of the Solomon Islands archipelago, which is a collection of Melanesian islands that also includes the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, but excludes the Santa Cruz Islands. Source: Wikipedia.
Tandai [tandai-SB, SB, Pacific/Guadalcanal, 2 km]; Nggosi [nggosi-SB, SB, Pacific/Guadalcanal, 3 km]; Panatina [panatina-SB, SB, Pacific/Guadalcanal, 6 km]; Arawa [arawa-PG, PG, Pacific/Bougainville, 600 km]; Yaren [yaren-NR, NR, Pacific/Nauru, 1254 km]; Popondetta [popondetta-PG, PG, Pacific/Port_Moresby, 1289 km]; Port-Vila [port-vila-VU, VU, Pacific/Efate, 1291 km]; Port Moresby [port-moresby-PG, PG, Pacific/Port_Moresby, 1404 km]
Honiara is part of this indexed country cluster: Honiara [honiara-SB, Pacific/Guadalcanal, pop 56,298]; Panatina [panatina-SB, Pacific/Guadalcanal, pop 32,712]; Nggosi [nggosi-SB, Pacific/Guadalcanal, pop 26,009]; Tandai [tandai-SB, Pacific/Guadalcanal, pop 24,592].
Sydney 2,860 km; Tokyo 5,449 km; Singapore 6,330 km; Los Angeles 9,850 km; Dubai 11,922 km; New York 13,694 km; London 14,997 km; São Paulo 15,346 km
HIR Honiara International Airport in Honiara [SB, 12 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include HIR Honiara International Airport in Honiara [SB].
Honiara renders Jun 2, 2026 · 21:46 GMT+11; GMT+11 at UTC+11:00; January UTC+11:00; July UTC+11:00; 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 Honiara.
Honiara is a context-and-reference city; rank #1 of 4 retained Solomon Islands city pages. The route is /time/solomon-islands/honiara/ and the city id is honiara-SB.
Honiara 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.
Honiara is pinned at 9.43°S, 159.95°E; Tandai (2 km); Sydney (2,860 km).
Pacific/Guadalcanal resolves to stable UTC+11:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Solomon Islands.
HIR Honiara International Airport (12 km) · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 1 country airport reference · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Honiara 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.
Honiara: Honiara is the capital and largest city of Solomon Islands, situated on the northwestern coast of Guadalcanal. As of 2021, it had a population of 92,344 people. The city is served by Honiara International Airport and the seaport of Point Cruz, and lies along the Kukum Highway. In 1983, a capital territory – comprising the 22 square-kilometre metropolitan area of Honiara – was proclaimed, with a self-governing status akin to a province, although the city also retained an older role as capital of Guadalcanal Province.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+11:00) is constant year-round.
Honiara 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 159.95°, Honiara's mean solar noon falls about 20 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.
Honiara sits at 9.43°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Honiara sits at 9.43°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 40m)
Shortest day
Jun 16 (11h 34m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
1h 6m
See the full daylight curve for Honiara at /sun/honiara/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Honiara local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Honiara |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Capital status
National capital of Solomon Islands
Reference fields include Honiara's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 09:46:58 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Honiara (UTC+11:00, SBT).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:30 AM to 06:06 PM
Day length 11h 36m · Solar noon 12:18 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Honiara local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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34 days to go
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161 days to go
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187 days to go
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8 days to go
Population
56.3K
Coordinates
-9.43, 159.95
Timezone
Pacific/Guadalcanal
Indexed airports
1
Capital
Honiara
Languages
English
Currency
SBD ($)
Country area
28,896 km²
Honiara, Solomon Islands (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Pacific/Guadalcanal (SBT, UTC+11:00); population ~56.3K.
Coordinates: 9.43°S, 159.95°E. Southern Hemisphere deep tropics, ~1047 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:30 AM and sets around 06:06 PM in Honiara — about 11h 36m of daylight. Solomon Islands stays on standard time here, so UTC+11:00 is stable through the year.
Tandai (2 km from Honiara) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Solomon Islands.
Honiara is indexed as a Oceania city in the SB country record, using Pacific/Guadalcanal as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/solomon-islands/honiara/.
Location context: 9.43°S, 159.95°E; population 56,298; nearest indexed city Tandai is about 2 km away; closest reference hub is Sydney, about 2,860 km away.
Country planning context: capital Honiara; subregion Melanesia; languages English; currency SBD ($); area 28,896 km²; 1 curated airport references; no upcoming holiday signal currently in view.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+11:00) is constant year-round.
Honiara 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 159.95°, Honiara's mean solar noon falls about 20 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.
Honiara sits at 9.43°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 Honiara: Panatina (same time), San Francisco (−18h), Los Angeles (−18h), Jakarta (−4h), Lima (−16h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
solomon-islands
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
SBT
IANA Zone
Pacific/Guadalcanal
UTC Offset
UTC+11:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
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 Honiara.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Honiara: closest hubs Sydney (~2,860 km), Tokyo (~5,449 km), Singapore (~6,330 km); farthest indexed hub São Paulo (~15,346 km).
Honiara sits inside Solomon Islands — the Melanesia subregion, capital Honiara, languages English, currency SBD ($).
Closest indexed cities to Honiara: Tandai (2 km), Nggosi (3 km), Panatina (6 km), Arawa (600 km).
Closest curated airport references from Honiara: HIR Honiara (12 km).
Honiara International AirportHIR
Honiara · 12 km from Honiara
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
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 | 11:46 AM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:46 AM | -15h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:46 AM | -18h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:46 PM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:46 PM | -3h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:46 PM | -2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:46 PM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:46 AM | -14h | Check the overlap widget below |
Tandai
Solomon Islands
Approx. 2 km away
Nggosi
Solomon Islands
Approx. 3 km away
Panatina
Solomon Islands
Approx. 6 km away
Arawa
Papua New Guinea
Approx. 600 km away
Yaren
Nauru
Approx. 1254 km away
Popondetta
Papua New Guinea
Approx. 1289 km away
Port-Vila
Vanuatu
Approx. 1291 km away
Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea
Approx. 1404 km away
Honiara is in the Pacific/Guadalcanal timezone (SBT), with a UTC offset of +11:00.
Honiara 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 Honiara is UTC+11:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Honiara, 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 · 21:46 GMT+11. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Honiara sits at 9.43°S, 159.95°E in Solomon Islands, with about 56.3K residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Honiara is Sydney, about 2,860 km away as the crow flies.
Tandai is the closest indexed city, roughly 2 km from Honiara.
Honiara International Airport (HIR) is the closest curated airport reference, about 12 km from Honiara.
Honiara uses Solomon Islands dollar (SBD, symbol $) as the local currency of Solomon Islands.
The longest day of 2026 in Honiara falls on Jan 1 with about 12h 40m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 16 with 11h 34m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
In Honiara 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.