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12:00 am00:00 GILT (UTC+12), Oct 13, 2026 = 11:00 pm23:00 BST (UTC+11), Oct 12, 2026

Tarawa is 1 hour ahead of BST.

How the time difference changes

Tarawa is 1 hour ahead of BST Pacific year-round.

Working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in Tarawa correspond to 8:00 am to 4:00 pm in BST Pacific.Working hours of 09:00 to 17:00 in Tarawa correspond to 08:00 to 16:00 in BST Pacific.

Compare Tarawa time with BST time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.

Time Difference

GILT (Gilbert Island Time) is 1 hour ahead of Bougainville Standard Time.
12:00 am00:00 in Tarawa, Kiribati is 11:00 pm23:00 in BST

Tarawa to BST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 10am-5pm10:00-17:00 in Tarawa which corresponds to 9am-4pm09:00-16:00 in BST

12:00 am00:00 GILT (Gilbert Island Time) (Tarawa, Kiribati). Offset UTC +12:00 hours
11:00 pm23:00 Bougainville Standard Time (BST). Offset UTC +11:00 hours

12:00 am00:00 Tarawa, Kiribati / 11:00 pm23:00 BST

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Tarawa Time Zone and Facts

Time Zone

Abbreviation / Offset
GILT – Gilbert Island Time, UTC+12 (no daylight saving time)

Tarawa Facts

Country
Kiribati
Alternative Names
Juzhnaja Tarava, South Tarawa, Sued-Tarawa, Süd-Tarawa, TRW, Tarawa, Tarawa Sud, Tarawa do Sul, Tarawa-Sud, Zuid-Tarawa, namtalawa, sauseutalawa, talawa, Южная Тарава, דרום טאראווה, 남타라와, 사우스타라와, 타라와
Population
40,311
Currency
Dollar (AUD)
Geographic Coordinates
1° 19' N Latitude / 172° 58' E Longitude
International Dialing Code
+686

Bougainville Standard Time

Offset: BST is 11 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Daylight Saving: Clocks in Bougainville Standard Time (BST) do not change for daylight saving time, so BST stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.

BST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +11 - basic short
  • +1100 - basic
  • +11:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +1100 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (11) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of eleven hours to the east of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Lima - Military abbreviation for BST
  • L - short form of 'Lima'
BST Abbreviation: Several time zones share BST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
  • British Summer Time - UTC +1
  • Bangladesh Standard Time - UTC +6
  • Bougainville Standard Time - UTC +11
Time zones with the GMT +11 offset:
  • AEDT - Australian Eastern Daylight Time
  • BST - Bougainville Standard Time
  • KOST - Kosrae Time
  • L - Lima Time Zone
  • LHDT - Lord Howe Daylight Time
  • MAGT - Magadan Time
  • NCT - New Caledonia Time
  • NFT - Norfolk Time
  • PETT - Kamchatka Time
  • PONT - Pohnpei Standard Time
  • SBT - Solomon IslandsTime
  • VLAST - Vladivostok Summer Time
  • VUT - Vanuatu Time