Local time · Norfolk Island
What time is it in Norfolk Island?
9:48:53PM
- UTC offset
- UTC+12:00
- Daylight saving
- In force now
- Time zones
- One nationwide
- Versus New York
- 17 hours ahead
Norfolk Island observes daylight saving
Norfolk Island is currently on daylight saving time, UTC+12:00. The next change is Sunday, April 4, 2027, when clocks go back one hour — 3:00 am becomes 2:00 am local time.
Working with Norfolk Island from the US
Norfolk 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 Norfolk.
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 Norfolk today
- Sunrise
- 5:46 am
- Sunset
- 7:17 pm
- Day length
- 13 hours 31 minutes
- Solar noon
- 12:32 pm
The day is 13 hours 31 minutes long in Norfolk, and gaining 1 minute a day. The sun peaks at 12:32 pm, 32 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Norfolk sits 48 minutes of solar time west of UTC+12:00’s. A full hour of that is daylight saving, which moves the clock away from the sun deliberately, and what is left over is the equation of time.
The solar year swings 3 hours 43 minutes in Norfolk: 14 hours of daylight at the December solstice against 10 hours 17 minutes at the June one. Being south of the equator, its longest day falls in December — the opposite way round from the other hemisphere.
Other countries
On UTC+12:00 right now, the same clock as Norfolk Island: