Port-VilaVanuatu
Current time in Port-Vila, Vanuatu
Friday, 25 September 2026
Vanuatu Standard TimeUTC+11:00
⛶ Full-screen clockPort-Vila time at a glance
- Country
- Vanuatu
- Location
- Capital city of Vanuatu
- Time zone
Pacific/Efate- UTC offset now
UTC+11:00- Current zone label
- GMT+11
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Port Vila time guide
Does Port Vila change its clocks?
UTC+11:00.- Year-round offset
- Vanuatu Time (VUT), UTC+11:00
- Time-zone identifier
- Pacific/Efate
- Port Vila and London
- 11 hours ahead during GMT; 10 hours ahead during BST
- Port Vila and New York
- 16 hours ahead during EST; 15 hours ahead during EDT
Urban centre and Efate region
Port Vila is a census urban area
Vanuatu's 2020 census counted 49,034 residents in Port Vila. The census reports the capital as an urban region separately from rural Efate and the wider Shefa Province, so those totals are not interchangeable.
Time-zone identity for Port-Vila
- IANA zone
Pacific/Efate- 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.
Port-Vila is currently 11 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Port-Vila
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 Port-Vila
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Pacific/Efate, 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 Port-Vila, capital of Vanuatu
Port-Vila is the capital of Vanuatu. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Vanuatu
- Administrative area
- Shefa, Vanuatu
- Population
- 35,901
- Coordinates
- 17.7365° S, 168.3137° E. The elevation is 10 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Port-Vila
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Port-Vila. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- NouméaSouth Province, New Caledonia541 km south
Pacific/NoumeaSame local time - SuvaCentral, Fiji1,071 km east
Pacific/Fiji1 hour ahead - KingstonNorfolk Island1,259 km south
Pacific/NorfolkSame local time - HoniaraSolomon Islands1,291 km northwest
Pacific/GuadalcanalSame local time - FunafutiTuvalu1,560 km northeast
Pacific/Funafuti1 hour ahead - Mata-UtuUvea, Wallis and Futuna1,733 km east
Pacific/Wallis1 hour ahead
Sources for Port-Vila 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.
- 2020 National Population and Housing Census - Basic TablesVanuatu Bureau of Statistics · 2020 census · AccessedOfficial population tables separating Port Vila from other regions.