Flying Fish CoveChristmas Island
Current time in Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island
Friday, 25 September 2026
Christmas Island TimeUTC+07:00
⛶ Full-screen clockFlying Fish Cove time at a glance
- Country
- Christmas Island
- Location
- Capital city of Christmas Island
- Time zone
Indian/Christmas- UTC offset now
UTC+07:00- Current zone label
- GMT+7
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Flying Fish Cove time guide
Does Flying Fish Cove change its clocks?
UTC+07:00.- Year-round offset
- Christmas Island Time, UTC+07:00
- Time-zone identifier
- Indian/Christmas
- Flying Fish Cove and London
- 7 hours ahead during GMT; 6 hours ahead during BST
- Flying Fish Cove and India
- 1 hour 30 minutes ahead of India Standard Time
Settlement and territory
Christmas Island totals cover the whole territory
Australia’s 2021 census page reports 1,692 people across Christmas Island. Flying Fish Cove is the island’s port and a commercial, industrial, visitor and residential hub, but the territory-wide census figure also includes residents elsewhere on the island.
Time-zone identity for Flying Fish Cove
- IANA zone
Indian/Christmas- UTC offset now
- UTC+07:00
- Current zone label
- GMT+7
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Flying Fish Cove is currently 7 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Flying Fish Cove
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Thursday, 30 September 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Flying Fish Cove
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Indian/Christmas, 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 Flying Fish Cove, capital of Christmas Island
Flying Fish Cove is the capital of Christmas Island. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Christmas Island
- Administrative area
- Christmas Island
- Population
- 500
- Coordinates
- 10.4217° S, 105.6791° E. The elevation is 135 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Flying Fish Cove
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Flying Fish Cove. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- JakartaIndonesia485 km north
Asia/JakartaSame local time - West IslandCocos Islands985 km west
Indian/Cocos30 minutes behind - SingaporeSingapore1,318 km north
Asia/Singapore1 hour ahead - Kuala LumpurMalaysia1,572 km north
Asia/Kuala_Lumpur1 hour ahead - Bandar Seri BegawanBrunei-Muara District, Brunei1,988 km northeast
Asia/Brunei1 hour ahead - DiliDili Municipality, Timor Leste2,191 km east
Asia/Dili2 hours ahead
Sources for Flying Fish Cove 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.
- Christmas Island census dataAustralian Department of Infrastructure · 2021 census · AccessedOfficial territory-wide population data for Christmas Island.