What time is it in Kiribati?

Kiribati 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.

Kiribati spans 3 time zones, so “the time in Kiribati” depends where. Each has its own page.

Tarawa 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 Tarawa.

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 3 minutes long in Tarawa, and holding steady — within a minute of yesterday’s. The sun peaks at 12:12 pm, 12 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Tarawa sits 28 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.

Tarawa is close enough to the equator that the solar year barely happens: the longest day of 2026 is 12 hours 12 minutes and the shortest 12 hours 2 minutes — a swing of 10 minutes across the whole year, against more than nine hours in northern Europe. There is no long summer evening here and no dark afternoon in December; sunset lands at much the same time every day.

Kiribati’s offset has not moved once since 1970 — no daylight saving, and no change of zone.

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