What time is it in Samoa?

Samoa stays on UTC+13:00 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 13 hours ahead of UTC, and 18 hours ahead of New York.

Apia is 18 hours ahead of New York and 21 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 3:00 am the next day in Apia.

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 44 minutes long in Apia, and gaining 1 minute a day. The sun peaks at 12:11 pm, 11 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Apia sits 1,467 minutes of solar time west of UTC+13:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

Apia lies inside the tropics, so the sun passes directly overhead at noon twice a year — around February 11 and October 29 in 2026, when a vertical object casts almost no shadow. Nowhere outside the tropics ever sees that. The longest day is 12 hours 57 minutes and the shortest 11 hours 19 minutes, 98 minutes apart.

Samoa has kept UTC+13:00 since Sunday, April 4, 2021, when it moved from UTC+14:00. Before that its clocks read 1 hour ahead of what they read now.

On UTC+13:00 right now, the same clock as Samoa: