FunafutiTuvalu
Funafuti time at a glance
- Country
- Tuvalu
- Location
- Capital city of Tuvalu
- Time zone
Pacific/Funafuti- UTC offset now
UTC+12:00- Current zone label
- GMT+12
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Funafuti time guide
Does Funafuti change its clocks?
UTC+12:00.- Year-round offset
- Tuvalu Time (TVT), UTC+12:00
- Time-zone identifier
- Pacific/Funafuti
- Funafuti and London
- 12 hours ahead during GMT; 11 hours ahead during BST
- Funafuti and New York
- 17 hours ahead during EST; 16 hours ahead during EDT
Atoll and capital villages
Funafuti is an atoll, not one settlement
Tuvalu's 2022 census counted 6,613 people on Funafuti by place of enumeration and 6,602 usual residents. Government functions are concentrated around Vaiaku, but the official Funafuti total covers the entire atoll.
Time-zone identity for Funafuti
- IANA zone
Pacific/Funafuti- UTC offset now
- UTC+12:00
- Current zone label
- GMT+12
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Funafuti is currently 12 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Funafuti
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 Funafuti
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Pacific/Funafuti, 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 Funafuti, capital of Tuvalu
Funafuti is the capital of Tuvalu. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Tuvalu
- Administrative area
- Tuvalu
- Population
- 6,320
- Coordinates
- 8.5243° S, 179.1942° E. The elevation is 7 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Funafuti
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Funafuti. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- Mata-UtuUvea, Wallis and Futuna732 km southeast
Pacific/WallisSame local time - SuvaCentral, Fiji1,072 km south
Pacific/FijiSame local time - ApiaTuamasaga, Samoa1,149 km southeast
Pacific/Apia1 hour ahead - Pago PagoEastern District, American Samoa1,273 km southeast
Pacific/Pago_Pago23 hours behind - TarawaGilbert Islands, Kiribati1,294 km northwest
Pacific/TarawaSame local time - Nuku‘alofaTongatapu, Tonga1,526 km southeast
Pacific/Tongatapu1 hour ahead
Sources for Funafuti 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.
- Tuvalu Population and Housing Census 2022-23Tuvalu Central Statistics Division · 2022 census · AccessedOfficial enumerated and resident population by Funafuti and outer islands.