Scarborough in numbers
- Coordinates
- -43.5746, 172.7710
- Population
- 747
- Region
- Canterbury
- Country
- New Zealand, Oceania
- Capital
- Wellington — 303 km away
- Same name
- 15 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Scarborough, Canterbury, New Zealand
Look up the current time in Scarborough, Canterbury, New Zealand, which follows the Pacific/Auckland zone (+13).
Scarborough, New Zealand
Wednesday, 4 November 2026
UTC+13 · Pacific/Auckland
Local time in Scarborough
UTC+13 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Scarborough.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:09 AM Solar noon 1:14 PM Sunset 8:18 PM Daylight 14 h 10 min Night 9 h 50 min Civil twilight 5:37 AM – 8:50 PM
Weather in Scarborough right now
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Scarborough and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 8081 Sumner — 1.1 km away
- 8840 Sumner — 1.1 km away
- 8247 Mount Pleasant — 4.7 km away
- 8082 Lyttelton — 5.3 km away
- 8841 Lyttelton — 5.3 km away
- 8641 New Brighton — 7.1 km away
- 8942 Diamond Harbour — 7.1 km away
- 8941 Diamond Harbour — 7.1 km away
- 8246 Hillsborough — 7.9 km away
- 8023 Hillsborough — 7.9 km away
- 8241 Woolston — 8.2 km away
- 8643 Aranui — 8.6 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
Other places named Scarborough
- Scarborough England, United Kingdom
- Scarborough Western Australia, Australia
- Scarborough Tobago, Trinidad And Tobago
- Scarborough Queensland, Australia
- Scarborough Maine, United States
Same time zone — Pacific/Auckland
- Auckland New Zealand
Nearby places
- Summer — 0.9 km
- Te Onepoto/Taylors Mistake — 1.0 km
- Sumner — 1.1 km
- Richmond Hill — 1.3 km
- Clifton — 2.1 km
- Moncks Bay — 2.5 km
Scarborough: clock, sun and surroundings
Scarborough carries the Pacific/Auckland zone, offset UTC+13. Whether daylight saving time is applied: Yes.
Sunrise in Scarborough is at 6:09 AM today, and sunset comes at 8:18 PM. Daylight lasts 14 h 10 min.
Scarborough, Summer and Te Onepoto/Taylors Mistake all run on one and the same time.
12 codes are used to address mail in Scarborough.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone determines the local time in Scarborough?
- Local time in Scarborough is determined by Pacific/Auckland, with an offset of +13.
- Does Scarborough keep the same offset year round, or does it use daylight saving?
- Daylight saving time in Scarborough: Yes.
- When is the sun down in Scarborough?
- The sun goes down at 8:18 PM.