Current time in Papua New Guinea

Local time in Papua New Guinea

The time in Papua New Guinea is 10 hours ahead of UTC and 15 hours ahead of Columbus. The timezone in Papua New Guinea is Papua New Guinea Time (PGT). Papua New Guinea is not using Daylight Saving Time (DST).

Details for the time in Papua New Guinea

Current time	6:46 p.m.
Time zone	Papua New Guinea Time (PGT)
IANA time zone	Pacific/Port_Moresby
Your time difference	15 hours ahead of Columbus
UTC time difference	UTC+10 10 hours ahead of UTC

Papua New Guinea Daylight Saving Time (DST)

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea Time PGT. PGT is UTC +1000. Papua New Guinea's latitude and longitude is 06° 00' S and 147° 00' E. Therefore being ten hours ahead of UTC is close to perfect for UTC. The country isn’t far south of the equator. Because of this there is no need to observe daylight savings time in Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea isn’t very small, it takes the sun almost an hour to “travel” from the east to the west of the country.

Important cities in Papua New Guinea

The current time in some important cities in Papua New Guinea is shown below.

Time in Papua New Guinea