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What time is it in Wakanui, Canterbury, New Zealand

Below is the local time in Wakanui, Canterbury, New Zealand, kept in the Pacific/Auckland zone (+13).

Wakanui, New Zealand

Saturday, 17 October 2026

UTC+13 · Pacific/Auckland

Local time in Wakanui

UTC+13 · daylight saving time is active

Wakanui keeps Pacific/Auckland clock_time.

The sun today

Sunrise 6:39 AM Solar noon 1:19 PM Sunset 7:59 PM Daylight 13 h 20 min Night 10 h 40 min Civil twilight 6:09 AM – 8:29 PM

Weather in Wakanui right now

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Wakanui and its neighbours

Elgin Riverside Wheatstone Ashton Hampstead Seafield Hakatere Wakanui
Wakanui at -43.9667, 171.8170 with the nearest towns within 9.4 km · open in OpenStreetMap

Postal codes

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.

Wakanui in numbers

Coordinates
-43.9667, 171.8170
Country
New Zealand, Oceania
Capital
Wellington — 384 km away

Largest cities in Canterbury

Same time zone — Pacific/Auckland

Nearby places

Time and daylight in Wakanui

Both Elgin and Riverside are near Wakanui and keep its time.

6 postal codes are listed for Wakanui.

The time zone here in Wakanui is Pacific/Auckland, offset UTC+13. Does daylight saving apply? Yes.

Wakanui greets the sun at 6:39 AM and loses it at 7:59 PM today. Daylight runs to 13 h 20 min.

Questions and answers

Which local time zone does Wakanui follow?
Wakanui follows Pacific/Auckland, with an offset of +13.
Does the time in Wakanui shift by an hour at any point in the year?
Yes.
How early does the sun rise in Wakanui?
The first sunlight comes at 6:39 AM.
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