Time zone · Oceania
PONAPE
Ponape Time
Ponape Time is used year-round in Pohnpei, Micronesia, holding steady at UTC+11 with no daylight saving changes—so the clocks stay predictable whether you’re waking to morning low tides or planning calls across the globe.
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Current offset
UTC+11:00
Standard · +11
Daylight saving
Not observed
Year-round standard time
IANA zones
1
None observe daylight saving
DST offset
—
No summer variant
About PONAPE
A fixed, year-round offset.
Ponape Time is used year-round in Pohnpei, Micronesia, holding steady at UTC+11 with no daylight saving changes—so the clocks stay predictable whether you’re waking to morning low tides or planning calls across the globe.
IANA zones · the technical identifiers
The zone that resolve to PONAPE.
For software, always store the IANA identifier — never the abbreviation alone. The database keeps these zones distinct because their rules can, and historically did, diverge.
Cities across PONAPE
Local time, city by city.
1 city
Where PONAPE is used
One country.
Same offset · UTC+11:00
Other zones at UTC+11:00 right now.
These named zones share PONAPE's offset today. When daylight saving rules differ, they drift apart for part of the year.
Convert
PONAPE to the world's clocks.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about PONAPE, daylight saving, and how to handle it in software. Can't find what you need? Email [email protected].
- Why doesn’t Ponape Time ever change for daylight saving?
- Pohnpei sits just north of the equator, where day length barely varies through the year, so there’s very little reason to shift clocks forward or back.
- What’s the easiest way to remember your offset?
- Just think “eleven ahead of the Prime Meridian,” because Ponape Time has kept UTC+11 since August 1945 and shows no signs of ever adding DST.
- How does this affect video meetings with London or New York?
- London is 11 hours behind Pohnpei in winter and 10 hours behind during British Summer Time; New York is 16 hours behind in winter and 15 during U.S. daylight saving time. So 9 AM in Pohnpei is 10–11 PM the previous day in London and 5–6 PM the previous day in New York.
- Is there any daylight saving at all in Micronesia?
- None. No part of the Federated States of Micronesia observes daylight saving: Pohnpei and Kosrae stay on UTC+11:00 and Chuuk and Yap on UTC+10:00 all year.
- Why is it called Ponape Time?
- “Ponape” is the older Western name of Pohnpei Island. English usage has since shifted to “Pohnpei,” but the older name survives in this time zone's name.
- When did Pohnpei settle on UTC+11?
- Pohnpei moved to UTC+11 on August 1, 1945, near the end of World War II, and has stayed there ever since.
- Do ships or airlines ever switch to a different zone nearby?
- Yes. The Marshall Islands, to the east, use UTC+12:00, so travellers heading east from Pohnpei move their clocks one hour forward; Chuuk and Yap, to the west, use UTC+10:00.
- What’s the downside of having no DST?
- For local life there’s none, but for global teams it means the gap to daylight-saving zones swings by an extra hour twice a year when those regions spring forward or fall back.
Source: IANA tzdb2026d · Reviewed
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