Pacific/Kiritimati time zone

Pacific/Kiritimati is an IANA time zone used in Kiribati. It stays on UTC+14 all year.

Pacific/Kiritimati at a glance

Rules of the Pacific/Kiritimati time zone

Pacific/Kiritimati stays on UTC+14 all year. The tz database records no daylight saving time in this zone since 1970.

Recent and upcoming changes in Pacific/Kiritimati

The base offset of this zone changed in 1994, from UTC−10 to UTC+14. Old timestamps should be converted with the rule that applied at the time.

Where Pacific/Kiritimati is used

Pacific/Kiritimati is used in Kiribati. None of the cities in our list follow it.

Pacific/Kiritimati 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.

Using Pacific/Kiritimati in software

Use the zone name Pacific/Kiritimati 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/Kiritimati:

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

Plan around the time in Pacific/Kiritimati

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