Waiau in numbers
- Coordinates
- -42.6500, 173.0500
- Population
- 255
- Region
- Canterbury
- Country
- New Zealand, Oceania
- Capital
- Wellington — 208 km away
- Same name
- 1 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Waiau, Canterbury, New Zealand
This page displays how late it is in Waiau, Canterbury, New Zealand, in the Pacific/Auckland time zone (+13).
Waiau, New Zealand
Saturday, 17 October 2026
UTC+13 · Pacific/Auckland
Local time in Waiau
UTC+13 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Waiau.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:36 AM Solar noon 1:14 PM Sunset 7:53 PM Daylight 13 h 17 min Night 10 h 43 min Civil twilight 6:07 AM – 8:22 PM
Weather in Waiau right now
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Waiau and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 7332
- 7343
- 7379
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 Waiau
- Waiau Hawaii, United States
Same time zone — Pacific/Auckland
- Auckland New Zealand
Nearby places
- Rotherham — 9.9 km
- Mendip Hills — 19.4 km
- Phoebe — 19.8 km
- Mt Lyford — 19.9 km
- Culverden — 20.9 km
- Spotswood — 20.9 km
Local time details for Waiau
Waiau stands in Pacific/Auckland, an offset of UTC+13 from Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving: Yes.
Sunrise comes to Waiau at 6:36 AM and sunset at 7:53 PM today. Together that makes 13 h 17 min of light.
Rotherham and Mendip Hills are near Waiau and do not differ from it in time.
Locations in Waiau are covered by 3 postal codes.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone covers Waiau?
- Waiau is covered by the Pacific/Auckland time zone, with an offset of +13.
- Should I expect a daylight saving change in Waiau?
- Yes.
- Do you know the time of sunset in Waiau?
- Yes, it is 7:53 PM.