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NZDT/NZST

New Zealand Daylight Time

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New Zealand is on daylight saving time: NZDT (UTC+13) until Sun, Apr 4, 2027.

Use NZST all year (UTC+12)

Use this NZST Time Converter page to check current local time, UTC and GMT offset, daylight saving details, related time zones, and popular time converter links.

New Zealand Standard Time

Offset: NZST is 12 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Pacific

Countries using this time zone: Antarctica, New Zealand

Principal Cities: The largest city in the NZST time zone is Auckland in New Zealand, with about 1.547 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Christchurch, Wellington, Hamilton, Tauranga.

NZST Time Zone Geo Map — NZST timezone map

Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone. During summer, some places set clocks forward one hour for daylight saving time and observe New Zealand Daylight Time (NZDT).

End: New Zealand Standard Time (NZST) ended on Sunday, September 27, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, September 27, 2026, 3:00 am03:00 local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually on the last Sunday of September.

Start: New Zealand Standard Time (NZST) starts on Sunday, April 4, 2027 at 3:00 am03:00 local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, April 4, 2027, 2:00 am02:00. Standard time starts annually on the first Sunday of April.

See upcoming clock changes worldwide.

NZST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data

+12 - basic short
+1200 - basic
+12:00 - extended

Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers

+1200 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (12) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of twelve hours to the east of the zero meridian.

Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others

Mike - Military abbreviation for NZST
M - short form of 'Mike'

IANA/Olson: Reflects NZST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems

Antarctica/McMurdo
Antarctica/South_Pole
NZ
Pacific/Auckland

Time zones with the GMT +12 offset:

ANAST - Anadyr Summer Time
ANAT - Anadyr Time
FJT - Fiji Time
GILT - Gilbert Island Time
M - Mike Time Zone
MAGST - Magadan Summer Time
MHT - Marshall Islands Time
NRT - Nauru Time
NZST - New Zealand Standard Time
PETST - Kamchatka Summer Time
TVT - Tuvalu Time
WFT - Wallis and Futuna Time