Time zone · Oceania
TUVALU
Tuvalu Time
Tuvalu Time (TVT) keeps the tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu on a steady UTC+12 clock year-round, with no daylight saving jumps.
Friday, October 16, 2026
Current offset
UTC+12:00
Standard · +12
Daylight saving
Not observed
Year-round standard time
IANA zones
1
None observe daylight saving
DST offset
—
No summer variant
About TUVALU
A fixed, year-round offset.
Tuvalu Time (TVT) keeps the tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu on a steady UTC+12 clock year-round, with no daylight saving jumps.
IANA zones · the technical identifiers
The zone that resolve to TUVALU.
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 TUVALU
Local time, city by city.
1 city
Where TUVALU is used
One country.
Same offset · UTC+12:00
Other zones at UTC+12:00 right now.
These named zones share TUVALU's offset today. When daylight saving rules differ, they drift apart for part of the year.
Convert
TUVALU to the world's clocks.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about TUVALU, daylight saving, and how to handle it in software. Can't find what you need? Email [email protected].
- Why doesn’t Tuvalu observe daylight saving time?
- Tuvalu sits close to the equator, where the length of day and night hardly changes over the year, so there’s little benefit to shifting clocks.
- Is TVT shared with any other countries?
- On timezone.io, Tuvalu Time covers only Tuvalu, but other places use the same UTC+12:00 offset all year, including Kiribati's Gilbert Islands, Nauru, the Marshall Islands and Wallis and Futuna.
- What’s an interesting quirk of Tuvalu’s timekeeping history?
- Tuvalu, then the Ellice Islands, has used UTC+12:00 since 1901, when it replaced local mean time, and it has never observed daylight saving time.
- If it’s midday in Funafuti, what’s happening in UTC?
- When the Funafuti clock reads 12:00, Coordinated Universal Time is 00:00 (midnight) on the same day.
Source: IANA tzdb2026e · Reviewed
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