What time is it in Fiji?

Fiji stays on UTC+12:00 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 12 hours ahead of UTC, and 17 hours ahead of New York.

Fiji is 17 hours ahead of New York and 20 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 2:00 am the next day in Fiji.

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 56 minutes long in Fiji, and gaining 1 minute a day. The sun peaks at 11:50 am, 10 minutes before noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Fiji sits 6 minutes of solar time west of UTC+12:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

Fiji lies inside the tropics, so the sun passes directly overhead at noon twice a year — around January 28 and November 14 in 2026, when a vertical object casts almost no shadow. Nowhere outside the tropics ever sees that. The longest day is 13 hours 13 minutes and the shortest 11 hours 2 minutes, 131 minutes apart.

Fiji has kept UTC+12:00 since Sunday, January 17, 2021, when it moved from UTC+13:00. Before that its clocks read 1 hour ahead of what they read now.

On UTC+12:00 right now, the same clock as Fiji: