Pacific/Saipan time zone

Pacific/Saipan is an IANA time zone used in Northern Mariana Islands. It stays on UTC+10 all year.

Pacific/Saipan at a glance

How Pacific/Saipan keeps time

No clock changes are scheduled in Pacific/Saipan. The last one for daylight saving time was in 1977; since then the offset has been UTC+10 all year.

Recent and upcoming changes in Pacific/Saipan

Countries and cities on Pacific/Saipan

Pacific/Saipan is used in Northern Mariana Islands. These are the largest cities in our list that follow it.

• Saipan

Pacific/Saipan 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+10 right now

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

• Asia/Vladivostok
• Australia/Brisbane
• Pacific/Guam
• Pacific/Port_Moresby
• Australia/Lindeman
• Asia/Ust-Nera

Using Pacific/Saipan in software

Use the zone name Pacific/Saipan 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/Saipan:

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

Plan around the time in Pacific/Saipan

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