What time is it in Cocos (Keeling) Islands?

Cocos (Keeling) Islands stays on UTC+6:30 all year. Its offset from UTC never moves, so its relationship to places that do change shifts twice a year instead — which is usually why someone checks. Right now it is 6 hours 30 minutes ahead of UTC, and 11 hours 30 minutes ahead of New York.

Cocos is 11 hours 30 minutes ahead of New York and 14 hours 30 minutes ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 8:30 pm in Cocos.

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

The day is 12 hours 39 minutes long in Cocos, and gaining 1 minute a day. The sun peaks at 11:46 am, 14 minutes before noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Cocos sits 2 minutes of solar time west of UTC+6:30’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

Cocos lies inside the tropics, so the sun passes directly overhead at noon twice a year — around February 16 and October 25 in 2026, when a vertical object casts almost no shadow. Nowhere outside the tropics ever sees that. The longest day is 12 hours 50 minutes and the shortest 11 hours 25 minutes, 86 minutes apart.

Cocos (Keeling) Islands’s offset has not moved once since 1970 — no daylight saving, and no change of zone.

On UTC+6:30 right now, the same clock as Cocos (Keeling) Islands: