Taranaki in numbers
- Coordinates
- -39.1667, 174.6670
- Region
- Taranaki Region
- Country
- New Zealand, Oceania
- Capital
- Wellington — 236 km away
What time is it in Taranaki, Taranaki Region, New Zealand
This page keeps the current time in Taranaki, Taranaki Region, New Zealand, according to the Pacific/Auckland zone (+13).
Taranaki, New Zealand
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
UTC+13 · Pacific/Auckland
Local time in Taranaki
UTC+13 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Taranaki.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:04 AM Solar noon 1:06 PM Sunset 8:09 PM Daylight 14 h 04 min Night 9 h 56 min Civil twilight 5:35 AM – 8:38 PM
Weather in Taranaki right now
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Taranaki and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 4395 Matau — 8.9 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 Taranaki Region
- New Plymouth 90 100
- Hawera 10 700
- Bell Block 8 260
- Waitara 7 730
- Stratford 6 430
- Vogeltown 6 140
Same time zone — Pacific/Auckland
- Auckland New Zealand
Nearby places
- Pohokura — 0.5 km
- Whangamomona — 6.4 km
- Matau — 8.9 km
- Te Wera — 10.8 km
- Kohuratahi — 12.6 km
- Purangi — 13.1 km
Local time details for Taranaki
Taranaki sits under Pacific/Auckland, which puts local clocks at UTC+13. Daylight saving in use: Yes.
Sunrise today is 6:04 AM in Taranaki, with sunset at 8:09 PM. That works out to 14 h 04 min of light.
Neighbouring Pohokura and Whangamomona keep the same hours as Taranaki.
1 postal code describe the layout of Taranaki.
Questions and answers
- What zone is Taranaki in for local time?
- For local time, Taranaki is in Pacific/Auckland, with an offset of +13.
- Is a daylight saving adjustment made in Taranaki?
- Yes.
- Tell me the sunrise hour in Taranaki.
- The sunrise hour is 6:04 AM.