Current time in Honolulu

Time zone in Honolulu

Honolulu is in Hawaii, United States and uses the Pacific/Honolulu time zone. Honolulu does not observe daylight saving time, so it stays on Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (UTC-10:00) all year.

Sunrise and sunset in Honolulu

Sun and clock in Honolulu

Honolulu lies about 8° west of the meridian its time zone is built around, so the sun runs late against the clock. Averaged over the year, solar noon does not arrive until 12:31 in standard time, which makes mornings darker and evenings lighter than the clock alone would suggest.

Daylight through the year in Honolulu

At 21.3°N latitude, Honolulu sees its longest day around the June solstice, when the sun is above the horizon for about 13 h 26 m. The shortest day comes six months later at roughly 10 h 50 m, a swing of about 2 h 36 m between midsummer and midwinter.

Within the tropics the sun passes directly overhead twice a year, and the seasonal change in day length stays under 2 h 36 m.

On the June solstice the sun rises in Honolulu at about 05:50 and sets at about 19:16; on the December solstice it rises at about 07:04 and sets at about 17:54.

How these figures are worked out

When the clocks change in Honolulu

Honolulu does not change its clocks. The offset stays at UTC-10:00 every day of the year, so a time arranged here means the same thing in January as it does in July. That makes Honolulu a straightforward place to schedule against — there is no window in the calendar where a recurring meeting quietly shifts by an hour.

Of the cities compared further down this page, New York, London and Sydney do change their clocks, so their difference from Honolulu moves by an hour twice a year; Dubai, New Delhi, Singapore and Tokyo do not, so those differences never change.

Calling Honolulu from another time zone

A working day of roughly 09:00 to 17:00 in Honolulu corresponds to 19:00–03:00 UTC. To find the equivalent window where you are, add your own offset to those hours: somewhere on UTC+00:00 would be looking at 19:00–03:00.

Taking a working day as 09:00 to 17:00 in each place:

• New York overlaps for only 2 hours, from 09:00 to 11:00 Honolulu time — late in the day at one end and early at the other.
• London has no overlap at all: when it is 09:00 there, it is already 22:00 in Honolulu, so a call means an early start or a late finish for someone.
• Tokyo has no overlap at all: when it is 09:00 there, it is already 14:00 in Honolulu, so a call means an early start or a late finish for someone.

These windows use the offsets in force on 2026-10-09; where one side observes daylight saving and the other does not, they move by an hour twice a year.

Time difference from your location

Honolulu compared with other cities

• Honolulu → New York
• Honolulu → London
• Honolulu → Dubai
• Honolulu → New Delhi
• Honolulu → Singapore
• Honolulu → Tokyo
• Honolulu → Sydney

Nearby cities

Honolulu is the only place in this directory on Pacific/Honolulu; the nearby cities listed below all keep different zones. The nearest listed city on a different zone is San Francisco, about 3850 km away on America/Los_Angeles, currently 3 h ahead of Honolulu.

• San Francisco
• Los Angeles
• Anchorage
• Seattle
• Las Vegas
• Phoenix
• Denver
• Dallas

Time zone rules: IANA tz database release 2026c, applied when this page was generated on 2026-10-09. Sun times: NOAA solar equations for 21.31°N, 157.86°W, flat horizon at sea level.

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