NZST to UTC Converter
Time Difference
New Zealand Daylight Time is 13 hours ahead of Universal Time Coordinated
9:00 am09:00 in NZDT is 8:00 pm20:00 in UTC
NZST to UTC call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 7pm-9pm in NZST which corresponds to 7am-9am in UTC
9:00 am09:00 New Zealand Daylight Time (NZDT). Offset UTC +13:00 hours
8:00 pm20:00 Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
9:00 am09:00 NZDT / 8:00 pm20:00 UTC
NZDT | UTC |
---|---|
12am (midnight) | 11am |
1am | 12pm (noon) |
2am | 1pm |
3am | 2pm |
4am | 3pm |
5am | 4pm |
6am | 5pm |
7am | 6pm |
8am | 7pm |
9am | 8pm |
10am | 9pm |
11am | 10pm |
12pm (noon) | 11pm |
1pm | 12am (midnight) |
2pm | 1am |
3pm | 2am |
4pm | 3am |
5pm | 4am |
6pm | 5am |
7pm | 6am |
8pm | 7am |
9pm | 8am |
10pm | 9am |
11pm | 10am |
0:00 | 11:00 |
1:00 | 12:00 |
2:00 | 13:00 |
3:00 | 14:00 |
4:00 | 15:00 |
5:00 | 16:00 |
6:00 | 17:00 |
7:00 | 18:00 |
8:00 | 19:00 |
9:00 | 20:00 |
10:00 | 21:00 |
11:00 | 22:00 |
12:00 | 23:00 |
13:00 | 0:00 |
14:00 | 1:00 |
15:00 | 2:00 |
16:00 | 3:00 |
17:00 | 4:00 |
18:00 | 5:00 |
19:00 | 6:00 |
20:00 | 7:00 |
21:00 | 8:00 |
22:00 | 9:00 |
23:00 | 10:00 |
New Zealand Standard Time
Offset: NZST is 12 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Pacific
Countries: It is used in following countries: Antarctica, New Zealand
Principal Cities: The largest city in the NZST timezone is Auckland from New Zealand with population about 1.535 million people. Other major cities in the area are Wellington, Christchurch, Hamilton, Tauranga

Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone, however during summer some places switch clocks for one hour forward when daylight saving comes into effect and observe New Zealand Daylight Time (NZDT).
End: New Zealand Standard Time (NZST) has ended on Sunday, September 24, 2023 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, September 24, 2023, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually the on last Sunday of September.
Start: New Zealand Standard Time (NZST) starts on Sunday, April 7, 2024 at 3:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, April 7, 2024, 2:00 am. Standard time starts annually the on first Sunday of April.
NZST representations, usage and related time zones
- +12 - basic short
- +1200 - basic
- +12:00 - extended
- +1200 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (12) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates twelve hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
- Mike - Military abbreviation for NZST
- M - short form of 'Mike'
- Antarctica/McMurdo
- Antarctica/South_Pole
- NZ
- Pacific/Auckland
- ANAST - Anadyr Summer Time
- ANAT - Anadyr Time
- FJT - Fiji Time
- GILT - Gilbert Island Time
- M - Mike Time Zone
- MAGST - Magadan Summer Time
- MAGT - Magadan 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
Universal Time Coordinated
Offset: UTC is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Universal
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the world time standard that regulates clocks and time. It is successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). For casual use, UTC is the same as GMT, but is used by the scientific community.
UTC is the time standard commonly used across the world since 1972. It is used in many technical fields, like aviation industry and meteorologists, also used to synchronize time across internet networks.
UTC representations, usage and related time zones
- Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offset, also known as 'Zulu' time
- +00 - basic short
- +0000 - basic
- +00:00 - extended
- +0000 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (00) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates zero hour and zero minutes time differences of the zero meridian.
- Zulu - Military abbreviation for UTC
- Z - short form of 'Zulu'
- Etc/UCT
- Etc/UTC
- Etc/Universal
- Etc/Zulu
- UCT
- UTC
- Universal
- Zulu
- EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
- GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
- WET - Western European Time
- AZOST - Azores Summer Time
- UTC - Universal Time Coordinated
- WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
- Z - Zulu Time Zone