Local time in Papua New Guinea
Independent State of Papua New Guinea
Current local time in Papua New Guinea — this country spans 2 time zones. The clocks below update live in your browser.
Time difference — Port Moresby
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Differences are relative to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Papua New Guinea
- Standard label
- PGT (UTC+10)
- Standard offset (Port Moresby)
- UTC+10
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 2
- Capital
- Port Moresby
- IANA zones
- Pacific/Bougainville, Pacific/Port_Moresby
Papua New Guinea uses PGT (UTC+10) as its standard time across 2 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 Papua New Guinea.
Sunrise and sunset in Port Moresby
At 9.5° south, Port Moresby gets 12 h 41 min of daylight around the December solstice but only 11 h 34 min around the June solstice — a difference of 1 h 06 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 06:06 | 12:23 | 18:41 | 12 h 35 min |
| 21 February | 06:15 | 12:26 | 18:37 | 12 h 21 min |
| 21 March | 06:16 | 12:20 | 18:23 | 12 h 07 min |
| 21 April | 06:15 | 12:11 | 18:06 | 11 h 51 min |
| 21 May | 06:19 | 12:09 | 17:59 | 11 h 39 min |
| 21 June | 06:27 | 12:14 | 18:01 | 11 h 34 min |
| 21 July | 06:29 | 12:18 | 18:08 | 11 h 38 min |
| 21 August | 06:21 | 12:16 | 18:11 | 11 h 50 min |
| 21 September | 06:03 | 12:06 | 18:08 | 12 h 06 min |
| 21 October | 05:46 | 11:57 | 18:07 | 12 h 21 min |
| 21 November | 05:41 | 11:58 | 18:15 | 12 h 35 min |
| 21 December | 05:50 | 12:10 | 18:30 | 12 h 41 min |
Calculated for Port Moresby (-9.48°, 147.15°; 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 Papua New Guinea (Pacific/Port_Moresby)
Papua New Guinea does not change its clocks in the Pacific/Port_Moresby zone: it stays on PGT (UTC+10) 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.