ApiaSamoa
Apia time at a glance
- Country
- Samoa
- Location
- Capital city of Samoa
- Time zone
Pacific/Apia- UTC offset now
UTC+13:00- Current zone label
- GMT+13
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Apia time guide
Does Apia change its clocks?
UTC+13:00.- Year-round offset
- West Samoa Time (WST), UTC+13:00
- Time-zone identifier
- Pacific/Apia
- Apia and London
- 13 hours ahead during GMT; 12 hours ahead during BST
- Apia and New York
- 18 hours ahead during EST; 17 hours ahead during EDT
Urban area and surrounding Upolu
Apia Urban Area has a census boundary
Samoa's 2021 census counted 35,974 residents in Apia Urban Area. Nearby North West Upolu is tabulated separately even though development extends outward from the capital, so the two areas should not be merged silently.
Time-zone identity for Apia
- IANA zone
Pacific/Apia- UTC offset now
- UTC+13:00
- Current zone label
- GMT+13
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Apia is currently 13 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Apia
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 Apia
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Pacific/Apia, 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 Apia, capital of Samoa
Apia is the capital of Samoa. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Samoa
- Administrative area
- Tuamasaga, Samoa
- Population
- 40,407
- Coordinates
- 13.8333° S, 171.7667° W. The elevation is 9 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Apia
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Apia. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- Pago PagoEastern District, American Samoa125 km southeast
Pacific/Pago_Pago24 hours behind - Mata-UtuUvea, Wallis and Futuna480 km west
Pacific/Wallis1 hour behind - AlofiNiue613 km south
Pacific/Niue24 hours behind - Nuku‘alofaTongatapu, Tonga890 km southwest
Pacific/TongatapuSame local time - FunafutiTuvalu1,149 km northwest
Pacific/Funafuti1 hour behind - SuvaCentral, Fiji1,152 km southwest
Pacific/Fiji1 hour behind
Sources for Apia 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.
- Samoa Population and Housing Census 2021 Final ReportSamoa Bureau of Statistics · 2021 census · AccessedOfficial Apia Urban Area and regional population totals.