Time in Honolulu
United States · Pacific/Honolulu · latitude 21.31°
Reading your clock…
Honolulu never changes its clocks
Honolulu stays on UTC-10:00 all year round. This is worth being careful about rather than relaxed about: the gap between Honolulu and a city that does observe daylight saving still moves twice a year, because the other end moved. A recurring call can drift by an hour without anything changing here at all.
Time difference from Honolulu
Where a range is shown, the gap genuinely changes during the year. That is not rounding or hedging — it is two governments moving their clocks on different weekends.
| City | Difference now | Across the year |
|---|---|---|
| London | 11 hours ahead | +10h / +11h |
| New York | 6 hours ahead | +5h / +6h |
| Los Angeles | 3 hours ahead | +2h / +3h |
| Chicago | 5 hours ahead | +4h / +5h |
| Toronto | 6 hours ahead | +5h / +6h |
| Paris | 12 hours ahead | +11h / +12h |
| Berlin | 12 hours ahead | +11h / +12h |
| Dubai | 14 hours ahead | constant |
| Mumbai | 15 hours 30 minutes ahead | constant |
| Singapore | 18 hours ahead | constant |
| Hong Kong | 18 hours ahead | constant |
| Tokyo | 19 hours ahead | constant |
| Sydney | 20 hours ahead | +20h / +21h |
| Auckland | 22 hours ahead | +22h / +23h |
| São Paulo | 7 hours ahead | constant |
| UTC | 10 hours ahead | constant |
Daylight in Honolulu through the year
From about 10.8 hours in December to 13.4 hours in June. This is the part a plain clock leaves out: 17:00 is a bright evening in one month and long dark in another.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 06:40 | 17:42 | 11h 2m |
| February | 06:28 | 18:01 | 11h 33m |
| March | 06:05 | 18:12 | 12h 7m |
| April | 05:38 | 18:21 | 12h 43m |
| May | 05:20 | 18:33 | 13h 13m |
| June | 05:19 | 18:45 | 13h 26m |
| July | 05:29 | 18:44 | 13h 15m |
| August | 05:41 | 18:27 | 12h 46m |
| September | 05:48 | 17:59 | 12h 11m |
| October | 05:58 | 17:32 | 11h 34m |
| November | 06:15 | 17:18 | 11h 3m |
| December | 06:33 | 17:23 | 10h 50m |
Daylight length is accurate. The clock times of sunrise and sunset assume each city sits at the centre of its time zone, which can put them up to about an hour and a quarter out for places near a zone's edge — Madrid being the standard example. Day length is unaffected.
Questions
About time in Honolulu
What time zone is Honolulu in?
Honolulu uses the IANA time zone Pacific/Honolulu, a fixed UTC-10:00 with no daylight saving.
Does Honolulu observe daylight saving time?
No. Honolulu stays on UTC-10:00 all year. That does not mean the gap between Honolulu and other cities is fixed, though: when a city that does observe daylight saving changes its clocks, the difference between you and them moves even though nothing changed here.
Why does the time difference to Honolulu keep changing?
Because the two places do not change their clocks on the same weekend, and in opposite hemispheres they change in opposite directions. London is a clear example: it sits 10 hours ahead, then 11 hours ahead across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Honolulu get?
Around 13.4 hours at the longest, in June, and about 10.8 hours at the shortest, in December. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Honolulu's latitude of 21.31° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.