Whakatane in numbers
- Coordinates
- -37.9585, 176.9850
- Population
- 18 602
- Region
- Bay of Plenty
- Country
- New Zealand, Oceania
- Capital
- Wellington — 416 km away
What time is it in Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Right now in Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand the local time is the one shown here, in the Pacific/Auckland zone (+12).
Whakatane, New Zealand
Friday, 4 September 2026
UTC+12 · Pacific/Auckland
Local time in Whakatane
UTC+12 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Whakatane.
The sun today
Sunrise 06:32 Solar noon 12:13 Sunset 17:54 Daylight 11 h 22 min Night 12 h 38 min Civil twilight 06:05 – 18:20
Weather in Whakatane right now
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Whakatane and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 3158
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
- Poroporo — 3.2 km
- Ohope Beach — 8.2 km
- Otangihaku — 8.4 km
- Awakeri — 8.8 km
- Thornton — 11.3 km
- Taneatua — 12.4 km
Time and daylight in Whakatane
The name of the time zone in Whakatane is Pacific/Auckland, and it runs UTC+12. Daylight saving time: No.
Sunrise in Whakatane is at 06:32 today, and sunset comes at 17:54. Daylight lasts 11 h 22 min.
The clock in Whakatane matches the clock in nearby Poroporo and Ohope Beach.
1 postal code describe the layout of Whakatane.
Questions and answers
- Is the local time in Whakatane based on Pacific/Auckland?
- Yes, local time in Whakatane is based on Pacific/Auckland, with an offset of +12.
- Is the time in Whakatane adjusted seasonally?
- No.
- What is the local sunrise time in Whakatane?
- Local sunrise is 06:32.