Palmerston North, New Zealand
Current time in New Zealand
Time zone: NZST (UTC/GMT +12:00) — Pacific/Auckland
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, 12 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +12:00) Pacific/Auckland |
Current Time in other Cities of New Zealand
Palmerston North time zone and UTC offset
Local time here is NZST, which sits 12 hours ahead of UTC, written UTC+12:00. The canonical zone name is Pacific/Auckland, and that is what to pick from a time zone dropdown.
Palmerston North observes daylight saving. The next change lands on Sunday, 27 September 2026, when 1 hour is added or removed and the abbreviation becomes NZDT.
Time difference between Palmerston North and other cities
Read this as: relative to each city below, Palmerston North is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Palmerston North is 16 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Palmerston North is 19 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Palmerston North is 11 hours ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Palmerston North is 10 hours ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Palmerston North is 8 hours ahead |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Palmerston North is 6 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Palmerston North is 4 hours ahead |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Palmerston North is 3 hours ahead |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Palmerston North is 2 hours ahead |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Palmerston North is 15 hours ahead |
Working hours that match Palmerston North
Usable call slots from Palmerston North, taking business hours as 09:00 to 17:00 in both places.
| Sydney | 11:00–17:00 in Palmerston North | 6 hours overlap |
| Tokyo | 12:00–17:00 in Palmerston North | 5 hours overlap |
| Shanghai | 13:00–17:00 in Palmerston North | 4 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 15:30–17:00 in Palmerston North | 1.5 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with New York, Los Angeles, London or Paris, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
Sharing Palmerston North's time zone
Same zone, same time — each of these sits on Pacific/Auckland alongside Palmerston North, including through any clock change.
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