What time is it in Antarctica?

Antarctica is currently on daylight saving time, UTC+13:00. The next change is Sunday, April 4, 2027, when clocks go back one hour — 3:00 am becomes 2:00 am local time.

Antarctica spans 8 time zones, so “the time in Antarctica” depends where. Each has its own page. The IANA database lists 10 zone entries for Antarctica; the others are historical splits that now keep the same clock as one of these.

McMurdo Station is 18 hours ahead of New York and 21 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 3:00 am the next day in McMurdo Station.

To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.

McMurdo Station is in continuous daylight today: the sun does not set at this latitude at this time of year. The sun peaks at 1:37 pm, 97 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and McMurdo Station sits 114 minutes of solar time west of UTC+13:00’s. A full hour of that is daylight saving, which moves the clock away from the sun deliberately, and what is left over is the equation of time.

At this latitude the year is extreme: McMurdo Station gets 24 hours of daylight at the December solstice and 0 minutes at the June one — 24 hours between them. Clock time matters less here than almost anywhere, because for months at a stretch it is either light or dark whatever the clock says.

On UTC+13:00 right now, the same clock as Antarctica: