Pacific/Efate time zone

Pacific/Efate is an IANA time zone used in Vanuatu. It stays on UTC+11 all year.

Pacific/Efate at a glance

How Pacific/Efate keeps time

Pacific/Efate has stayed on UTC+11 since its last daylight saving period in 1993. Software that still applies an old rule will show the wrong time, so keep tz data up to date.

Recent and upcoming changes in Pacific/Efate

Countries and cities on Pacific/Efate

Pacific/Efate is used in Vanuatu. These are the largest cities in our list that follow it.

• Port Vila

Pacific/Efate 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/Efate today. Their clock-change rules may differ.

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

Using Pacific/Efate in software

Use the zone name Pacific/Efate rather than an abbreviation or a fixed offset. Abbreviations can mean several zones, and offsets ignore future clock changes.

Show the current time in Pacific/Efate:

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

Plan around the time in Pacific/Efate

• Convert a time to or from Pacific/Efate: pick a date and time and see it in every city on your list.
• Add Port Vila to your world clock to keep it next to your own time.
• Find a meeting time that falls inside office hours in Pacific/Efate 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.