Palmerston in numbers
- Coordinates
- -45.4784, 170.7200
- Population
- 1 050
- Region
- Otago
- Country
- New Zealand, Oceania
- Capital
- Wellington — 570 km away
- Same name
- 6 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Palmerston, Otago, New Zealand
The time in Palmerston, Otago, New Zealand at this very moment is shown below, in the Pacific/Auckland zone (+13).
Palmerston, New Zealand
Friday, 13 November 2026
UTC+13 · Pacific/Auckland
Local time in Palmerston
UTC+13 · daylight saving time is active
Palmerston keeps Pacific/Auckland clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:01 AM Solar noon 1:23 PM Sunset 8:44 PM Daylight 14 h 43 min Night 9 h 17 min Civil twilight 5:27 AM – 9:18 PM
Weather in Palmerston right now
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Palmerston and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 9430
- 9443
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 Otago
- Dunedin 132 800
- Mosgiel 14 800
- Wanaka 13 200
- Oamaru 13 000
- Queenstown 10 442
- North East Valley 9 830
Other places named Palmerston
- Palmerston Northern Territory, Australia
- Palmerston Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- Palmerston Palmerston, Cook Islands
- Palmerston Manicaland, Zimbabwe
- Palmerston Ontario, Canada
Same time zone — Pacific/Auckland
- Auckland New Zealand
Nearby places
- Wairunga — 6.3 km
- Glenpark — 6.5 km
- Shag Point — 7.7 km
- Goodwood — 8.0 km
- Katiki — 12.4 km
- Dunback — 12.6 km
Local time details for Palmerston
Palmerston gets its sunrise at 6:01 AM and its sunset at 8:44 PM today. Daylight lasts a full 14 h 43 min.
Time runs the same in Palmerston and in nearby Wairunga and Glenpark.
Palmerston carries 2 postal codes.
The time standard for Palmerston is Pacific/Auckland at UTC+13. Daylight saving time applies here: Yes.
Questions and answers
- What time zone covers Palmerston?
- The time zone covering Palmerston is Pacific/Auckland, with an offset of +13.
- Does the local time in Palmerston include a summer time period?
- Yes.
- When is the sun up in Palmerston?
- The sun comes up at 6:01 AM.