Local time in Kiribati
Republic of Kiribati
Current local time in Kiribati — this country spans 3 time zones. The clocks below update live in your browser.
Time difference — Tarawa
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Differences are relative to Tarawa, Kiribati, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Kiribati
- Standard label
- UTC+12 to UTC+14
- Standard offset (Tarawa)
- UTC+12
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 3
- Capital
- Tarawa
- IANA zones
- Pacific/Kanton, Pacific/Kiritimati, Pacific/Tarawa
Kiribati uses UTC+12 to UTC+14 as its standard time across 3 IANA zones. Clocks stay on the same offset all year round — daylight saving time is not observed. Times on this page are computed in your browser from the IANA time zone database, so they always match the real current time in Kiribati.
Sunrise and sunset in Tarawa
Tarawa lies close to the equator (1.3° N), so day length barely changes: about 12 h 03 min at the December solstice and 12 h 12 min at the June solstice.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 06:38 | 12:40 | 18:41 | 12 h 03 min |
| 21 February | 06:40 | 12:43 | 18:45 | 12 h 05 min |
| 21 March | 06:33 | 12:36 | 18:40 | 12 h 07 min |
| 21 April | 06:23 | 12:28 | 18:32 | 12 h 09 min |
| 21 May | 06:20 | 12:26 | 18:31 | 12 h 11 min |
| 21 June | 06:25 | 12:31 | 18:36 | 12 h 12 min |
| 21 July | 06:30 | 12:35 | 18:41 | 12 h 11 min |
| 21 August | 06:28 | 12:32 | 18:37 | 12 h 09 min |
| 21 September | 06:19 | 12:22 | 18:26 | 12 h 07 min |
| 21 October | 06:11 | 12:14 | 18:16 | 12 h 05 min |
| 21 November | 06:13 | 12:15 | 18:16 | 12 h 03 min |
| 21 December | 06:25 | 12:27 | 18:28 | 12 h 03 min |
Calculated for Tarawa (1.33°, 172.97°; coordinates from Wikidata) with the standard solar-position formulas used by NOAA, for a sea-level horizon. Results are accurate to about a minute; hills, buildings and altitude shift what you actually see. Times change by only a minute or two from year to year.
Daylight saving time in Kiribati (Pacific/Tarawa)
Kiribati does not change its clocks in the Pacific/Tarawa zone: it stays on UTC+12 to UTC+14 all year in 2026 and 2027.
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.