What time is it in Vanuatu?

Vanuatu stays on UTC+11:00 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 11 hours ahead of UTC, and 16 hours ahead of New York.

Efate is 16 hours ahead of New York and 19 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 1:00 am the next day in Efate.

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 55 minutes long in Efate, and gaining 1 minute a day. The sun peaks at 11:30 am, 30 minutes before noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Efate sits 14 minutes of solar time east of UTC+11:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

Efate lies inside the tropics, so the sun passes directly overhead at noon twice a year — around January 30 and November 12 in 2026, when a vertical object casts almost no shadow. Nowhere outside the tropics ever sees that. The longest day is 13 hours 11 minutes and the shortest 11 hours 4 minutes, 127 minutes apart.

Vanuatu has kept UTC+11:00 since Saturday, January 23, 1993, when it moved from UTC+12:00. Before that its clocks read 1 hour ahead of what they read now.

On UTC+11:00 right now, the same clock as Vanuatu: