Time in Honolulu
It is 16:26 on Wednesday, 16 September 2026 in Honolulu. Honolulu is in United States. Civil time uses the IANA zone Pacific/Honolulu at -10:00 from UTC (not in effect). Use the live clock below for the current local time, then jump to a difference or conversion when you need meeting math.
Honolulu uses Pacific/Honolulu on Hawaii–Aleutian Standard Time at UTC−10:00 all year. Hawaii does not observe daylight saving, so the gap to the US mainland grows by an hour when those clocks spring forward.
Local office hours commonly cluster around 08:00–17:00. Tokyo’s afternoon is Honolulu’s morning; New York mornings arrive in the Honolulu night, which is why trans-Pacific calls are booked with care.
Hawaii is UTC−10:00 all year. When the mainland springs forward, the gap to California becomes three hours instead of two. “Two hours behind Pacific” is only true in US winter.
Honolulu time zone
- UTC offset
- UTC-10:00
- Abbreviation
- HST
- IANA
- Pacific/Honolulu
- DST
- not in effect
Daylight saving in Honolulu
Honolulu is currently on its standard offset. Honolulu does not change its clocks. The offset stays -10:00 all year, so the gap to other cities only moves when the other side changes.
Daylight in Honolulu today
The sun rises at 06:18 and sets at 18:33, giving 12 h 15 m of daylight. Solar noon falls at 12:26, 26 minutes after the clock reads twelve, because Honolulu sits west of the 150° W meridian its current offset is built on.
- Sunrise
- 06:18
- Sunset
- 18:33
- Daylight
- 12 h 15 m
- Solar noon
- 12:26Solar noon is when the sun sits highest in the sky. It drifts from clock noon across a time zone, which is why one clock can span very different days.
Best time to call Honolulu
Overlap between a 09:00–17:00 working day in Honolulu and the same hours in other major cities.
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About Honolulu
- Population
- 350,964The administrative city figure recorded by Wikidata. The surrounding urban area is larger.
- Region
- Hawaii
- Coordinates
- 21.3047° N, 157.8572° WLatitude is what drives the sunrise and sunset times above.
- Currency
- US Dollar (USD)
- Calling code
- +1Dial this after your international access prefix, and check the overlap table above before you call.
- Languages
- English
- Airports
- HNLDaniel K. Inouye InternationalArrival and departure boards at these airports quote Honolulu local time, not the time where you booked.
Frequently asked questions about time in Honolulu
- What time is it in Honolulu right now?
- It is 16:26 in Honolulu as this page was generated, and the clock above keeps ticking in your browser. Honolulu uses the IANA zone Pacific/Honolulu, currently -10:00.
- Which time zone is Honolulu in?
- Honolulu is in the HST time zone (Pacific/Honolulu), currently -10:00. Always store the identifier rather than the offset — the offset changes with daylight saving, the identifier does not.
- Does Honolulu observe daylight saving time?
- No. Honolulu stays on -10:00 all year. Any change in the gap to another city comes from that city changing its own clocks.
- Is Honolulu ahead of or behind UTC?
- Honolulu is currently at -10:00. When it is 12:00 UTC, the local time in Honolulu is 02:00.