UTC+13:00

UTC+13:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +13:00.

UTC+13:00: blue (December), orange (June), yellow (all year round), light blue (sea areas)

UTC+13:00
World map with the time zone highlighted
UTC offset
UTC	UTC+13:00
Current time
18:00, 18 August 2020 UTC+13:00 [refresh]
Central meridian
165 degrees W
Date-time group

As standard time (all year round)

Oceania

•  Kiribati
  • Phoenix Islands
•  New Zealand
  • Tokelau – Time in Tokelau[1]
•  Tonga

As standard time (Southern Hemisphere winter)

Oceania

•  Samoa[2][3] – Time in Samoa

As daylight saving time (Southern Hemisphere summer)

Principal cities: Auckland, Suva

Oceania

•  Fiji
•  New Zealand (except Chatham Islands) – New Zealand Daylight Time

Antarctica

• Some bases in Antarctica, in particular South Pole and McMurdo Station. These places are the first in the world to see the sun at New Year, since the sun is up at midnight at that time of the year.

History

Kiribati introduced a change for its eastern half on 31 December 1994, from time zones UTC−11:00 and UTC−10:00 to UTC+13:00 and UTC+14:00, to avoid having the country divided by the International Date Line.

Tonga has been on UTC+13:00 for many years. Daylight saving time was used in the southern summer seasons from October 1999 to January 2002, and from November 2016 to January 2017 (written 2017).[4]

UTC+13:00 was used till 2009 as a daylight time (summer in Northern Hemisphere) in the parts of very eastern Russia (Chukotka and Kamchatka) that used Kamchatka Time.

At the end of 29 December 2011 (UTC−10:00), Samoa advanced its standard time from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 (and its daylight saving time from UTC−10:00 to UTC+14:00), essentially moving the international date line to the other side of the country.[2][3] Following Samoa’s decision, Tokelau also simultaneously advanced its standard time (used without daylight saving time), from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00.[1][3]

See also

• Time in New Zealand
• Time in Russia
• Time in Samoa

References

1. "Tokelau: Wrong local time for over 100 years". timeanddate.com.
2. McCabe, Joanne (May 9, 2011). "Samoa to change time zones and move forward by a day". Metro. Archived from the original on December 28, 2012.
3. "Samoa and Tokelau skip a day for dateline change". BBC News. December 30, 2011. Archived from the original on December 10, 2014. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
4. Clock Changes in Nukualofa, Tonga