Time zone · Oceania
TOKELA
Tokelau Time
Tokelau Time keeps every corner of the territory in sync at UTC+13:00, a consistent forward-leaning offset that skips daylight saving altogether. Tokelau shares the same clock time as Samoa and Tonga all year, and matches New Zealand while New Zealand is on daylight saving time.
Friday, October 16, 2026
Current offset
UTC+13:00
Standard · +13
Daylight saving
Not observed
Year-round standard time
IANA zones
1
None observe daylight saving
DST offset
—
No summer variant
About TOKELA
A fixed, year-round offset.
Tokelau Time keeps every corner of the territory in sync at UTC+13:00, a consistent forward-leaning offset that skips daylight saving altogether. Tokelau shares the same clock time as Samoa and Tonga all year, and matches New Zealand while New Zealand is on daylight saving time.
IANA zones · the technical identifiers
The zone that resolve to TOKELA.
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 TOKELA
Local time, city by city.
1 city
Where TOKELA is used
One country.
Same offset · UTC+13:00
Other zones at UTC+13:00 right now.
These named zones share TOKELA's offset today. When daylight saving rules differ, they drift apart for part of the year.
Convert
TOKELA to the world's clocks.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about TOKELA, daylight saving, and how to handle it in software. Can't find what you need? Email [email protected].
- Why doesn’t Tokelau use daylight saving?
- If UTC+13 ever felt like “ahead of the curve,” it’s because the territory jumped forward in 2011 and never looked back. Staying fixed avoids clock-shifting in a place where daylight hours barely change year-round.
- How did the 2011 shift to +13 happen?
- Tokelau hopped from UTC−11:00 to +13:00 overnight, skipping an entire day (December 30, 2011) to align calendars with major trading partners. Emails dated the 30th? They never existed here.
- Is Fakaofo the only clock in town?
- Yep—every atoll in Tokelau shares Fakaofo’s wall-clock time. No internal time-zone hopscotch; local chats, tides, and Zoom calls all march to the same +13 drumbeat.
- Does being +13 make Tokelau one of the first places to greet the new day?
- In theory, midnight fireworks here ring in global New Year celebrations before almost anyone else. But because there’s no DST, the island’s “business hours” stay steady, keeping Pacific partners comfortably aligned.
- Is ‘+13’ the region’s only abbreviation?
- Since there’s no daylight saving toggle, you’ll mostly see “+13” in apps and schedules. It’s the single, no-fuss label for Tokelau’s year-round tempo.
- Is there ever a need to ‘spring forward’ or ‘fall back’ here?
- Not needed. +13 runs 365 days straight, a blessing for island logistics: shipping manifests, generator refuels, and dinner plans never get a time-twist surprise.
- How does +13 mesh with nearby zones?
- Tokelau is one hour ahead of Auckland in the New Zealand winter and on the same time during New Zealand's daylight saving time. It is three hours ahead of Sydney in the Australian winter and two hours ahead in the Australian summer. Scheduling a call? You can almost always land within polite business hours.
- What’s a fun historical footnote about the clocks here?
- Tokelau literally crossed the International Date Line in 2011; calendars flipped straight from December 29 to December 31. The territory lost a whole day from its calendar.
Source: IANA tzdb2026e · Reviewed
Free · Developer API
This time zone, as JSON.
Its defining offset, DST status and member counts, from one endpoint.
Also in the API: time zones by coordinates, conversions that flag daylight saving gaps, and abbreviations decoded.
Moving off WorldTimeAPI? Our drop-in replacement needs no key.