Pacific/Tahiti time zone

Pacific/Tahiti is an IANA time zone used in French Polynesia. It stays on UTC−10 all year.

Pacific/Tahiti at a glance

Rules of the Pacific/Tahiti time zone

Pacific/Tahiti stays on UTC−10 all year. The tz database records no daylight saving time in this zone since 1970.

Where Pacific/Tahiti is used

Pacific/Tahiti is used in French Polynesia. These are the largest cities in our list that follow it.

• Faaa
• Papeete

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

• Pacific/Honolulu
• Pacific/Rarotonga
• America/Adak

Using Pacific/Tahiti in software

Store and send the zone as its IANA name, Pacific/Tahiti, not as a fixed offset. A fixed offset such as UTC−10 gives the wrong result after the next clock change.

Show the current time in Pacific/Tahiti:

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

Tools for time in Pacific/Tahiti

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