Time in Suva
Fiji · Pacific/Fiji · latitude -18.14°
Reading your clock…
Suva never changes its clocks
Suva stays on UTC+12:00 all year round. This is worth being careful about rather than relaxed about: the gap between Suva 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 Suva
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 behind | −12h / −11h |
| New York | 16 hours behind | −17h / −16h |
| Los Angeles | 19 hours behind | −20h / −19h |
| Chicago | 17 hours behind | −18h / −17h |
| Toronto | 16 hours behind | −17h / −16h |
| Paris | 10 hours behind | −11h / −10h |
| Berlin | 10 hours behind | −11h / −10h |
| Dubai | 8 hours behind | constant |
| Mumbai | 6 hours 30 minutes behind | constant |
| Singapore | 4 hours behind | constant |
| Hong Kong | 4 hours behind | constant |
| Tokyo | 3 hours behind | constant |
| Sydney | 2 hours behind | −2h / −1h |
| Auckland | the same time | 0 / +1h |
| São Paulo | 15 hours behind | constant |
| UTC | 12 hours behind | constant |
Daylight in Suva through the year
From about 11.0 hours in June to 13.2 hours in December. 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 | 05:40 | 18:42 | 13h 2m |
| February | 05:56 | 18:32 | 12h 36m |
| March | 06:05 | 18:12 | 12h 7m |
| April | 06:11 | 17:47 | 11h 36m |
| May | 06:20 | 17:33 | 11h 13m |
| June | 06:31 | 17:33 | 11h 2m |
| July | 06:31 | 17:42 | 11h 11m |
| August | 06:17 | 17:51 | 11h 34m |
| September | 05:52 | 17:56 | 12h 4m |
| October | 05:28 | 18:02 | 12h 34m |
| November | 05:16 | 18:18 | 13h 2m |
| December | 05:22 | 18:35 | 13h 13m |
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 Suva
What time zone is Suva in?
Suva uses the IANA time zone Pacific/Fiji, a fixed UTC+12:00 with no daylight saving.
Does Suva observe daylight saving time?
No. Suva stays on UTC+12:00 all year. That does not mean the gap between Suva 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 Suva 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 12 hours behind, then 11 hours behind across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Suva get?
Around 13.2 hours at the longest, in December, and about 11.0 hours at the shortest, in June. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Suva's latitude of -18.14° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.