Current time in the Pacific/Tarawa time zone

Pacific/Tarawa is an IANA time zone used in Kiribati. It stays on UTC+12 all year.

Pacific/Tarawa at a glance

Rules of the Pacific/Tarawa time zone

Pacific/Tarawa stays on UTC+12 all year. The tz database records no daylight saving time in this zone since 1970.

Where Pacific/Tarawa is used

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

• Tarawa

Pacific/Tarawa 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+12 right now

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

• Asia/Kamchatka
• Pacific/Fiji
• Pacific/Funafuti
• Pacific/Majuro
• Pacific/Nauru
• Pacific/Norfolk
• Pacific/Wallis
• Pacific/Kwajalein
• Asia/Anadyr

Using Pacific/Tarawa in software

Use the zone name Pacific/Tarawa 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/Tarawa:

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

Plan around the time in Pacific/Tarawa

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