Avonhead in numbers
- Coordinates
- -43.5083, 172.5500
- Population
- 10 240
- Region
- Canterbury
- Country
- New Zealand, Oceania
- Capital
- Wellington — 307 km away
What time is it in Avonhead, Canterbury, New Zealand
On this page you will find the exact local time in Avonhead, Canterbury, New Zealand, in the Pacific/Auckland time zone (+13).
Avonhead, New Zealand
Thursday, 5 November 2026
UTC+13 · Pacific/Auckland
Local time in Avonhead
UTC+13 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Avonhead.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:09 AM Solar noon 1:15 PM Sunset 8:20 PM Daylight 14 h 12 min Night 9 h 48 min Civil twilight 5:37 AM – 8:52 PM
Weather in Avonhead right now
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Avonhead and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 8053 Burnside — 1.4 km away
- 8545 Burnside — 1.4 km away
- 8444 Ilam — 2.0 km away
- 8442 Upper Riccarton — 2.7 km away
- 8042 Hei Hei — 3.3 km away
- 8051 Harewood — 3.8 km away
- 8543 Harewood — 3.8 km away
- 8544 Harewood — 3.8 km away
- 8440 Riccarton — 3.9 km away
- 8540 Fendalton — 4.1 km away
- 8041 Fendalton — 4.1 km away
- 8443 Wigram — 4.6 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 Canterbury
Same time zone — Pacific/Auckland
- Auckland New Zealand
Nearby places
- Burnside — 1.4 km
- Ilam — 2.0 km
- Russley — 2.0 km
- Upper Riccarton — 2.7 km
- Sockburn — 2.8 km
- Yaldhurst — 2.8 km
Local time details for Avonhead
Around Avonhead, places such as Burnside and Russley use the same time.
The area of Avonhead is divided into 12 postal codes.
Avonhead reads its time from Pacific/Auckland, placed at UTC+13. Whether daylight saving time is observed: Yes.
Sunrise at Avonhead today happens at 6:09 AM, sunset at 8:20 PM. The two are 14 h 12 min apart.
Questions and answers
- What time zone corresponds to Avonhead?
- Pacific/Auckland corresponds to Avonhead and has an offset of +13.
- Does the clock in Avonhead move for summer time?
- Yes.
- What time is first light in Avonhead?
- The sun rises at 6:09 AM.