Local time · French Southern Territories
What time is it in French Southern Territories?
2:50:52PM
- UTC offset
- UTC+5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not observed
- Time zones
- One nationwide
- Versus New York
- 10 hours ahead
French Southern Territories does not change its clocks
French Southern Territories stays on UTC+5:00 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 5 hours ahead of UTC, and 10 hours ahead of New York.
Working with French Southern Territories from the US
Kerguelen is 10 hours ahead of New York and 13 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 7:00 pm in Kerguelen.
To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.
The sun in Kerguelen today
- Sunrise
- 4:28 am
- Sunset
- 7:38 pm
- Day length
- 15 hours 9 minutes
- Solar noon
- 12:03 pm
The day is 15 hours 9 minutes long in Kerguelen, and gaining 3 minutes a day. The sun peaks within a few minutes of twelve o’clock, so French Southern Territories’s offset fits its longitude about as closely as a whole-hour offset can.
The solar year swings 8 hours 5 minutes in Kerguelen: 16 hours 16 minutes of daylight at the December solstice against 8 hours 10 minutes at the June one. Being south of the equator, its longest day falls in December — the opposite way round from the other hemisphere.
French Southern Territories’s offset has not moved once since 1970 — no daylight saving, and no change of zone.
Other countries
On UTC+5:00 right now, the same clock as French Southern Territories: