What time is it in Pitcairn Islands?

Pitcairn Islands stays on UTC−8:00 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 8 hours behind UTC, and 3 hours behind New York.

Pitcairn is 3 hours behind New York and the same time as Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 6:00 am in Pitcairn.

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 13 hours 18 minutes long in Pitcairn, and gaining 1 minute a day. The sun peaks at 12:24 pm, 24 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Pitcairn sits 40 minutes of solar time west of UTC−8:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

The solar year swings 3 hours 7 minutes in Pitcairn: 13 hours 42 minutes of daylight at the December solstice against 10 hours 35 minutes at the June one. Being south of the equator, its longest day falls in December — the opposite way round from the other hemisphere.

Pitcairn Islands has kept UTC−8:00 since Monday, April 27, 1998, when it moved from UTC−8:30. Before that its clocks read 30 minutes behind what they read now.