Current time in Tauranga, New Zealand right now

It is 9:43 am in Tauranga, New Zealand 🇳🇿 right now, on Friday, November 6, 2026. The city keeps Pacific/Auckland, which is NZDT at UTC+13, so Tauranga is 13 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 8:43 pm. The sun rose in Tauranga at 6:04 am and sets at 7:55 pm, which is 13 hours 51 minutes of daylight.

What time is it in Tauranga right now?

The time in Tauranga, New Zealand is 9:43 am, 09:43 on a 24 hour clock, on Friday November 6, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Pacific/Auckland rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.

Tauranga sits at 37.69 degrees south and 176.17 degrees east, in the subtropical belt and 4,191 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 195.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 18.8 degrees west of that line. Those 18.8 degrees are worth 75 minutes 20 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:59 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.

Tauranga time zone and UTC offset

The IANA zone for Tauranga, New Zealand is Pacific/Auckland. Right now it is running at UTC+13 and the abbreviation in force is NZDT. Tauranga is on summer time at the moment, which is why the offset reads UTC+13 rather than the UTC+12 it keeps in winter.

Daylight hours in Tauranga today

The sun rose in Tauranga at 6:04 am and sets at 7:55 pm, which is 13 hours 51 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Tauranga, is at 12:59 pm, which is 59 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -15.92 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 68.2 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the north.

The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Tauranga, which works from the same coordinates.

Where Tauranga is on the map

The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.

Time difference between Tauranga and major cities

Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Tauranga.

Best time to call Tauranga

Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.

Other cities in New Zealand

We cover 10 cities in New Zealand. These are the ones nearest to Tauranga, with the time on their clocks right now.

Cities on Pacific/Auckland time

10 of our cities keep Pacific/Auckland, so every one of them reads 9:43 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Tauranga. Nearest first:

Moon phase over Tauranga tonight

The moon is a waning crescent tonight, 26.2 days into its cycle and about 12% lit. The next full moon falls on November 25, 2026 at 3:53 am Auckland time, and the next new moon on November 9, 2026 at 8:01 pm. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Tauranga clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.

When the clocks change in Tauranga

The next change is on Sunday, April 4, 2027, 149 days from now, when the clocks in Tauranga go back 1 hour at 2:59 am and the offset moves from UTC+13 to UTC+12.

Two things follow from that. Any standing call with Tauranga shifts by an hour on that date unless the other side moves the same weekend, and every offset printed on this page is the offset for today rather than a fixed property of the city.

How far Tauranga is from other cities

Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Tauranga is Hamilton, New Zealand at 78 km, and the furthest is Jaen, Spain at 20,005 km, which is 100% of the way to being exactly opposite.

The antipode of Tauranga

Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Tauranga, New Zealand and you come out at 37.69 degrees north, 3.83 degrees west. That point is near Jaen, Spain. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Jaen, Spain, 10 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 9:43 pm on Thursday.

The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 37.69 degrees south becomes 37.69 degrees north, and 176.17 degrees east becomes 3.83 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Tauranga is one of the exceptions, with dry land on the far side. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC+1, roughly twelve hours from Tauranga, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.

Sunrise and sunset in Tauranga

Today the sun rises in Tauranga at 6:04 am and sets at 7:55 pm, giving 13 hours 51 minutes of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Tauranga.

Sun and moon in Tauranga today

The sun is up in Tauranga for 13 hours 51 minutes today, from 6:04 am to 7:55 pm. The moon rises in Tauranga at 4:05 am and sets at 4:52 pm. The next phase is the new moon on November 9, 2026. It is 11% lit at the moment, a waning crescent, thinning by about 6.7 percentage points a day.

Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.

Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.

Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.

Prayer times in Tauranga

Seven days from November 6, 2026, computed for Tauranga, New Zealand at 37.69 degrees south, 176.17 degrees east, on the clock of Pacific/Auckland. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.

Dhuhr is solar noon at Tauranga, New Zealand, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.

Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.

Qibla direction from Tauranga

From Tauranga, New Zealand the qibla is 259.2 degrees on a true compass, which is west, or 10.8 degrees north of due west. The Kaaba is 15,471 km away, 9,613 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Tauranga, New Zealand to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.

The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Tauranga, New Zealand before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.

Tauranga time now: common questions

What time is it in Tauranga, New Zealand right now?

9:43 am on Friday November 6, 2026. Tauranga runs on NZDT, UTC+13.

What time zone is Tauranga in?

Pacific/Auckland, currently NZDT at UTC+13. 10 of the cities on this site keep that zone.

What is the UTC offset for Tauranga?

UTC+13 at this instant. It alternates between UTC+12 and UTC+13 across the year.

Does Tauranga observe daylight saving time?

Yes. The next change is April 4, 2027, when the clocks go back.

How many hours ahead or behind is Tauranga of New York?

Tauranga is 18 hours ahead of New York, where it is 3:43 pm right now.

What time does the sun set in Tauranga today?

7:55 pm, after a sunrise at 6:04 am and 13 hours 51 minutes of daylight.

What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Tauranga?

37.69 degrees north, 3.83 degrees west, near Jaen, Spain.

When is the best time to call Tauranga from London?

There is no shared working hour: London is 13 hours behind of Tauranga, which puts the two working days apart.

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