What time is it in Papua New Guinea right now? 🇵🇬

It is 7:48 pm in Port Moresby right now, Thursday, November 5, 2026. Papua New Guinea runs on UTC+10, and on one further zone besides. Every reading on this page is computed from the IANA time zone database at the moment you loaded it, and the clocks above and below tick on from there.

Time in Papua New Guinea now

Papua New Guinea spans 2 different clock readings across 2 IANA zones, 1 hour apart from end to end. When it is 7:48 pm in Port Moresby it is already 8:48 pm in Bougainville, so "the time in Papua New Guinea" is a question that needs a region attached to it.

The offset from UTC in Port Moresby is UTC+10, which is 10 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Nine in the morning in Port Moresby is 11:00 pm UTC.

Papua New Guinea time zones in full

Each row is a zone identifier from the IANA database, its reading at this instant, its offset from UTC and whether it is currently on standard or summer time. They do not all agree: the spread across Papua New Guinea is 1 hour.

Does Papua New Guinea have daylight saving time?

No part of Papua New Guinea moves its clocks. The offset stays at UTC+10 through the whole year, which means a difference worked out today against Papua New Guinea is still right in six months. Most of the world now works this way; the daylight saving habit is concentrated in Europe, North America and a short list of others.

A fixed offset makes Papua New Guinea an easy place to schedule against, with one caveat: the country at the other end of the call may still be moving its clocks, so the gap can change even though nothing changed here. The windows further down this page are worked out at the current instant for exactly that reason.

Where Papua New Guinea is on the map

The marker is on Port Moresby, the point every sun reading and every call window on this page is worked out from.

Time difference between Port Moresby and major cities

Worked out at this instant rather than from a stored table, so daylight saving on either side is already in it.

Best time to call Papua New Guinea

A nine to five working day in Port Moresby against a nine to five day elsewhere. The overlap column is the stretch when both desks are open, given on each side's own clock.

Daylight hours in Port Moresby today

In Port Moresby the sun rose at 5:41 am today and sets at 6:09 pm, giving 12 hours 28 minutes of daylight. The capital is gaining 27 seconds of daylight a day at the moment, and the sun stands highest at 11:55 am.

Solar noon in Port Moresby is 11:55 am, which is 5 minutes before clock noon. That gap is the capital sitting at 147.18 degrees east while its clock is set to Pacific/Port_Moresby, plus the equation of time, which today runs 16.5 minutes ahead of mean time.

Moon phase over Port Moresby tonight

The moon is waning crescent tonight, 25.7 days into the current lunation, with roughly 15 percent of the disc lit. The next full moon falls on November 25, 2026 as Papua New Guinea reads the date, at 12:53 am local. The moon phase page has the full cycle.

Current time in Papua New Guinea cities

The 1 city this site covers inside Papua New Guinea, alphabetically, each with its own ticking clock and its own sunrise page.

Every IANA time zone in Papua New Guinea

These are the identifiers a computer uses. A program that stores Pacific/Port_Moresby rather than UTC+10 keeps working through every future rule change, which is the whole reason the database is keyed this way.

Convert Papua New Guinea time to another zone

The converter pages below take UTC+10 against the zones people most often measure it from. Each one carries a full conversion table rather than a single answer.

Information about Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea sits in Oceania, carries the ISO country code PG and a population of about 10,330,000. Its capital Port Moresby is at 9.44 degrees south, 147.18 degrees east, which is the coordinate every sunrise and solar noon on this page is computed from.

Upcoming dates in Papua New Guinea

Read on Papua New Guinea's own clock, so the day counts below start from November 5 and not from a UTC date. The list is the internationally observed calendar plus the dates common across Oceania, along with this country's own clock changes and the next solstices and equinoxes. National days set by a country's own statute are not included, because this site carries no statute table and a guessed one would be worse than an honest gap.

Sun and moon in Port Moresby today

The sun is up in Port Moresby for 12 hours 28 minutes today, from 5:41 am to 6:09 pm. The moon rises in Port Moresby at 2:31 am and sets at 2:50 pm. The next phase is the new moon on November 9, 2026. It is 18% lit at the moment, a waning crescent, thinning by about 8.1 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 Port Moresby

Seven days from November 5, 2026, computed for Port Moresby at 9.44 degrees south, 147.18 degrees east, on the clock of Pacific/Port_Moresby. 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 Port Moresby, 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 Port Moresby

From Port Moresby the qibla is 289.5 degrees on a true compass, which is west-northwest, or 19.5 degrees south of due west. The Kaaba is 12,176 km away, 7,566 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Port Moresby 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 Port Moresby 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.

Questions about the time in Papua New Guinea

What time is it in Papua New Guinea right now?

It is 7:48 pm in Port Moresby as this page was served, Thursday, November 5, 2026. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.

What time zone is Papua New Guinea in?

Papua New Guinea uses 2 zones, from UTC+10 to UTC+11. The capital Port Moresby is on Pacific/Port_Moresby at UTC+10.

What is the UTC offset in Papua New Guinea?

UTC+10 in Port Moresby at this instant, and between UTC+10 and UTC+11 across the whole country.

Does Papua New Guinea observe daylight saving time?

No. Papua New Guinea stays on UTC+10 all year and does not move its clocks.

What time does the sun set in Port Moresby today?

6:09 pm, after a sunrise at 5:41 am and 12 hours 28 minutes of daylight.

When is the best time to call Papua New Guinea from the United States?

The working days do not overlap: Port Moresby is 15 hours ahead of New York, so one side has to take the call outside office hours.

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