Current time in the Pacific/Guadalcanal time zone

Pacific/Guadalcanal is an IANA time zone used in Solomon Islands. It stays on UTC+11 all year.

Pacific/Guadalcanal at a glance

Rules of the Pacific/Guadalcanal time zone

This zone has a single offset, UTC+11, with no seasonal changes recorded since 1970.

Where Pacific/Guadalcanal is used

Pacific/Guadalcanal is used in Solomon Islands. These are the largest cities in our list that follow it.

• Honiara

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

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

Using Pacific/Guadalcanal in software

Use the zone name Pacific/Guadalcanal 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/Guadalcanal:

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

Plan around the time in Pacific/Guadalcanal

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