What time is it in Nauru?

Nauru 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.

Nauru 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 Nauru.

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 8 minutes long in Nauru, and holding steady — within a minute of yesterday’s. The sun peaks at 12:36 pm, 36 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Nauru sits 52 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.

Nauru is close enough to the equator that the solar year barely happens: the longest day of 2026 is 12 hours 9 minutes and the shortest 12 hours 5 minutes — a swing of 4 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 June; sunset lands at much the same time every day.

Nauru has kept UTC+12:00 since Saturday, February 10, 1979, when it moved from UTC+11:30. Before that its clocks read 30 minutes behind what they read now.

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