AvaruaCook Islands
Current time in Avarua, Cook Islands
Thursday, 24 September 2026
Cook Islands Standard TimeUTC-10:00
⛶ Full-screen clockAvarua time at a glance
- Country
- Cook Islands
- Location
- Capital city of Cook Islands
- Time zone
Pacific/Rarotonga- UTC offset now
UTC-10:00- Current zone label
- GMT-10
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Avarua time guide
Does Avarua change its clocks?
UTC-10:00.- Year-round offset
- UTC-10:00, with no seasonal clock change
- Time-zone identifier
- Pacific/Rarotonga
- Avarua and London
- 10 hours behind GMT; 11 hours behind BST
- Avarua and New York
- 5 hours behind EST; 6 hours behind EDT
Capital settlement and island
Rarotonga totals are wider than Avarua
The Cook Islands 2021 census reports 10,863 usual residents across Rarotonga and publishes its constituent census districts separately. Avarua is the capital area on that island, so the Rarotonga total should not be described as the population of Avarua alone.
Time-zone identity for Avarua
- IANA zone
Pacific/Rarotonga- UTC offset now
- UTC-10:00
- Current zone label
- GMT-10
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Avarua is currently 10 hours behind UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Avarua
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Wednesday, 29 September 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Avarua
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Pacific/Rarotonga, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the previous 5 years.
Next 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the next 5 years.
Dates are calculated from IANA time-zone rules. The calculation checks for offset changes throughout the displayed period and resolves each change to the nearest second.
Capital city context
About Avarua, capital of Cook Islands
Avarua is the capital of Cook Islands. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Cook Islands
- Administrative area
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands
- Population
- 13,373
- Coordinates
- 21.2075° S, 159.7755° W. The elevation is 7 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Avarua
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Avarua. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- AlofiNiue1,086 km west
Pacific/Niue1 hour behind - PapeeteÎles du Vent, French Polynesia1,146 km east
Pacific/TahitiSame local time - Pago PagoEastern District, American Samoa1,389 km northwest
Pacific/Pago_Pago1 hour behind - ApiaTuamasaga, Samoa1,512 km northwest
Pacific/Apia23 hours ahead - Nuku‘alofaTongatapu, Tonga1,599 km west
Pacific/Tongatapu23 hours ahead - Mata-UtuUvea, Wallis and Futuna1,950 km northwest
Pacific/Wallis22 hours ahead
Sources for Avarua time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 4 sources
- GeoNames cities15000GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · AccessedCity and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
- IANA Time Zone DatabaseInternet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · AccessedTime-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
- Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · AccessedEnglish display names for countries, currencies and languages.
- Cook Islands Population and Housing Census 2021Cook Islands Statistics Office · Census reference date 2021 · AccessedOfficial population tables for Rarotonga and its census districts.