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9–17 in Wellington vs UTC
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About Wellington
Home to roughly 215,000 residents, Wellington is a regional town in New Zealand. Its terrain rests around 13 m of elevation.
Wellington keeps time on the Pacific/Auckland IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. The temperate, southern-hemisphere setting at -41.29° latitude defines its day-length swing across the year — long summer evenings and shorter winter days.
New Zealand's currency is NZD and its calling prefix is +64. Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent Wellington's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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The current local time in Wellington, New Zealand is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Wellington uses the IANA time zone Pacific/Auckland, currently UTC+12.
Whether Wellington observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Pacific/Auckland) is the source of truth.
Wellington is currently 16 hours ahead of New York.
Wellington is currently 11 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Wellington are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (-41.2865, 174.7762).
New Zealand uses the NZD currency and the +64 international dialing code.
Wellington sits at -41.2865° S, 174.7762° E, 13 m above sea level, in New Zealand.