Current time in the Pacific/Bougainville time zone

Pacific/Bougainville is an IANA time zone used in Papua New Guinea. It stays on UTC+11 all year.

Pacific/Bougainville at a glance

How Pacific/Bougainville keeps time

Pacific/Bougainville stays on UTC+11 all year. The tz database records no daylight saving time in this zone since 1970.

Recent and upcoming changes in Pacific/Bougainville

The base offset of this zone changed in 2014, from UTC+10 to UTC+11. Old timestamps should be converted with the rule that applied at the time.

Countries and cities on Pacific/Bougainville

Pacific/Bougainville is used in Papua New Guinea. None of the cities in our list follow it.

Pacific/Bougainville compared with other time zones

Differences change during the year when one side moves to or from daylight saving time, so the table shows January and July separately.

Other zones on UTC+11 right now

These IANA zones show the same time as Pacific/Bougainville today. Their clock-change rules may differ.

• Asia/Sakhalin
• Australia/Hobart
• Australia/Melbourne
• Australia/Sydney
• Pacific/Efate
• Pacific/Guadalcanal
• Pacific/Noumea
• Pacific/Pohnpei
• Australia/Lord_Howe
• Antarctica/Macquarie
• Pacific/Kosrae
• Asia/Magadan

Using Pacific/Bougainville in software

Store and send the zone as its IANA name, Pacific/Bougainville, not as a fixed offset. A fixed offset such as UTC+11 gives the wrong result after the next clock change.

Show the current time in Pacific/Bougainville:

// JavaScript
new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-GB', { timeZone: 'Pacific/Bougainville', timeStyle: 'long' }).format(new Date());
# Python
from datetime import datetime
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
datetime.now(ZoneInfo('Pacific/Bougainville'))
// PHP
(new DateTime('now', new DateTimeZone('Pacific/Bougainville')))->format('c');
# Shell
TZ=Pacific/Bougainville date

Tools for time in Pacific/Bougainville

• Convert a time to or from Pacific/Bougainville: pick a date and time and see it in every city on your list.
• Add Pacific/Bougainville to your world clock to keep it next to your own time.
• Find a meeting time that falls inside office hours in Pacific/Bougainville and the other cities you work with.
• Open a full-screen clock for your own time zone.

Frequently asked questions

Time zone rules: IANA tz database, version 2026e. Place names and coordinates: GeoNames. Sunrise and sunset are calculated from the coordinates and can differ by a minute or two from local almanacs.