NZST is UTC+12:00. New Zealand uses NZST in the southern winter and NZDT (UTC+13:00) in the southern summer.
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Pacific/Auckland covers New Zealand’s main islands. Chatham Islands use a different offset. New Zealand’s daylight-saving calendar is inverted relative to Europe and North America, which matters for overnight calls to London or New York.
The offset shown above is computed from Pacific/Auckland at page render time using Intl.DateTimeFormat. It can change when daylight saving starts or ends.
New Zealand daylight time (NZDT) is typically in effect from late September to early April.
New Zealand Standard Time (NZST) uses the IANA identifier Pacific/Auckland. NZST is UTC+12:00. New Zealand uses NZST in the southern winter and NZDT (UTC+13:00) in the southern summer.
Right now New Zealand Standard Time is UTC+12:00. The live abbreviation reported by the timezone database is GMT+12.
Standard time is in effect. Standard time is labeled NZST and daylight time is labeled NZDT. Dates are taken from IANA data, not hardcoded on this site.
Use the converter with Pacific/Auckland as the source zone, or open the Time Zone Converter and pick a city that uses NZST. Offsets update automatically when daylight saving begins or ends.