What time is it in Tokelau?

Tokelau 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.

Fakaofo 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 Fakaofo.

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 32 minutes long in Fakaofo, and holding steady — within a minute of yesterday’s. The sun peaks at 12:09 pm, 9 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Fakaofo sits 1,465 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.

Fakaofo lies inside the tropics, so the sun passes directly overhead at noon twice a year — around February 23 and October 17 in 2026, when a vertical object casts almost no shadow. Nowhere outside the tropics ever sees that. The longest day is 12 hours 40 minutes and the shortest 11 hours 35 minutes, 66 minutes apart.

Tokelau has kept UTC+13:00 since Saturday, December 31, 2011, when it moved from UTC−11:00. Before that its clocks read 24 hours behind what they read now.

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