Kaikoura in numbers
- Coordinates
- -42.4167, 173.6830
- Population
- 685
- Region
- Canterbury
- Country
- New Zealand, Oceania
- Capital
- Wellington — 155 km away
What time is it in Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand
On this page the local time of Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand is updated live, in the Pacific/Auckland zone (+13).
Kaikoura, New Zealand
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC+13 · Pacific/Auckland
Local time in Kaikoura
UTC+13 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Kaikoura.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:35 AM Solar noon 1:12 PM Sunset 7:49 PM Daylight 13 h 13 min Night 10 h 47 min Civil twilight 6:06 AM – 8:18 PM
Weather in Kaikoura right now
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Kaikoura and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 7340 Kaikoura Suburban — 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
- South Bay — 0.9 km
- Kaikoura Suburban — 4.6 km
- Kaikoura Flat — 6.2 km
- Hapuku — 12.0 km
- Mangamaunu — 14.3 km
- Goose Bay — 14.5 km
Kaikoura: clock, sun and surroundings
Postal areas within Kaikoura come to 1.
Kaikoura keeps time under Pacific/Auckland. That places it at UTC+13, with daylight saving time Yes.
Today at Kaikoura, the sun rises at 6:35 AM and sets at 7:49 PM. That gives 13 h 13 min of daylight.
Nearby South Bay and Kaikoura Suburban follow the same clock as Kaikoura.
Questions and answers
- Do you know which time zone Kaikoura uses?
- Kaikoura uses the Pacific/Auckland time zone, with an offset of +13.
- Does daylight saving time reach Kaikoura?
- Daylight saving time in Kaikoura: Yes.
- What is the sunset time for Kaikoura?
- 7:49 PM.