Rotorua in numbers
- Coordinates
- -38.1387, 176.2450
- Population
- 65 901
- Region
- Bay of Plenty
- Country
- New Zealand, Oceania
- Capital
- Wellington — 372 km away
What time is it in Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Find out what time it is now in Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand — the local clock runs on Pacific/Auckland (+12).
Rotorua, New Zealand
Friday, 4 September 2026
UTC+12 · Pacific/Auckland
Local time in Rotorua
UTC+12 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Rotorua.
The sun today
Sunrise 06:35 Solar noon 12:16 Sunset 17:56 Daylight 11 h 22 min Night 12 h 38 min Civil twilight 06:08 – 18:23
Weather in Rotorua right now
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Rotorua and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 3044 Glenholme — 1.1 km away
- 3047 Mangakakahi — 1.1 km away
- 3010 Ohinemutu — 1.2 km away
- 3046 Koutu — 2.2 km away
- 3040 Ngapuna — 2.8 km away
- 3045 Ngapuna — 2.8 km away
- 3043 Whakarewarewa — 3.0 km away
- 3015 Sunnybrook — 3.2 km away
- 3048 Tihiotonga — 3.8 km away
- 3042 Owhata — 4.7 km away
- 3041 Ngongotaha — 7.3 km away
- 3072 Tarukenga — 10.4 km away
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in Bay of Plenty
Same time zone — Pacific/Auckland
- Auckland New Zealand
Nearby places
- Victoria — 0.7 km
- Mangakakahi — 1.1 km
- Glenholme — 1.1 km
- Ohinemutu — 1.2 km
- Utuhina — 1.3 km
- Hillcrest — 1.5 km
Local time details for Rotorua
Rotorua uses the Pacific/Auckland time zone with a UTC+12 offset. Whether daylight saving time is used: No.
Sunrise happens at 06:35 in Rotorua today and sunset at 17:56. That marks 11 h 22 min of daylight.
Neighbouring places Victoria and Mangakakahi run on Rotorua time.
The area of Rotorua is divided into 12 postal codes.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is used by Rotorua?
- Rotorua uses the Pacific/Auckland time zone, which has an offset of +12.
- Does Rotorua observe daylight saving time?
- No.
- What hour brings sunset in Rotorua?
- The hour is 17:56.