NouméaNew Caledonia
Current time in Nouméa, New Caledonia
Friday, 25 September 2026
New Caledonia Standard TimeUTC+11:00
⛶ Full-screen clockNouméa time at a glance
- Country
- New Caledonia
- Location
- Capital city of New Caledonia
- Time zone
Pacific/Noumea- UTC offset now
UTC+11:00- Current zone label
- GMT+11
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Noumea time guide
Does Noumea change its clocks?
UTC+11:00.- Year-round offset
- New Caledonia Time (NCT), UTC+11:00
- Time-zone identifier
- Pacific/Noumea
- Noumea and London
- 11 hours ahead during GMT; 10 hours ahead during BST
- Noumea and New York
- 16 hours ahead during EST; 15 hours ahead during EDT
Commune and Greater Noumea
Greater Noumea includes four communes
New Caledonia's authenticated 2025 census counted 85,976 municipal residents in Noumea. Greater Noumea also includes Le Mont-Dore, Dumbéa and Païta, making its population substantially larger.
Time-zone identity for Nouméa
- IANA zone
Pacific/Noumea- UTC offset now
- UTC+11:00
- Current zone label
- GMT+11
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Nouméa is currently 11 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Nouméa
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 Nouméa
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Pacific/Noumea, 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 Nouméa, capital of New Caledonia
Nouméa is the capital of New Caledonia. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of New Caledonia
- Administrative area
- South Province, New Caledonia
- Population
- 93,060
- Coordinates
- 22.2741° S, 166.4488° E. The elevation is 26 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Nouméa
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Nouméa. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- Mont-DoreSouth Province, New Caledonia12 km east
Pacific/NoumeaSame local time - DumbéaSouth Province, New Caledonia13 km north
Pacific/NoumeaSame local time - Port-VilaShefa, Vanuatu541 km north
Pacific/EfateSame local time - KingstonNorfolk Island769 km south
Pacific/NorfolkSame local time - SuvaCentral, Fiji1,331 km east
Pacific/Fiji1 hour ahead - HoniaraSolomon Islands1,587 km northwest
Pacific/GuadalcanalSame local time
Sources for Nouméa 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.
- Authenticated results of the 2025 New Caledonia censusInstitute of Statistics and Economic Studies of New Caledonia (ISEE) · 2025 census · AccessedOfficial municipal and separately counted populations for Noumea.