Porirua in numbers
- Coordinates
- -41.1333, 174.8500
- Population
- 61 500
- Region
- Wellington Region
- Country
- New Zealand, Oceania
- Capital
- Wellington — 18 km away
- Same name
- 1 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand
This page holds the current clock reading for Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand, in the Pacific/Auckland time zone (+12).
Porirua, New Zealand
Friday, 4 September 2026
UTC+12 · Pacific/Auckland
Local time in Porirua
UTC+12 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Porirua.
The sun today
Sunrise 06:43 Solar noon 12:21 Sunset 18:00 Daylight 11 h 17 min Night 12 h 43 min Civil twilight 06:15 – 18:27
Weather in Porirua right now
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Porirua and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 5240 Ranui Heights — 1.0 km away
- 5243 Cannons Creek — 1.6 km away
- 5247 Paremata — 2.3 km away
- 5249 Linden — 2.4 km away
- 5022 Elsdon — 2.6 km away
- 5242 Onepoto — 2.9 km away
- 5024 Waitangirua — 3.0 km away
- 5245 Whitby — 4.4 km away
- 5028 Grenada North — 6.3 km away
- 5026 Karehana Bay — 6.9 km away
- 5050 Maungaraki — 8.5 km away
- 5040 Alicetown — 9.0 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 Wellington Region
- Wellington 381 900
- Lower Hutt 114 200
- Upper Hutt 47 400
- Paraparaumu 29 900
- Masterton 28 900
- Wainuiomata 20 450
Other places named Porirua
- Porirua Wellington Region, New Zealand
Same time zone — Pacific/Auckland
- Auckland New Zealand
Nearby places
- Linden — 2.4 km
- Greenacres — 2.9 km
- Porirua — 3.0 km
- Takapu Valley — 3.9 km
- Linden — 4.0 km
- Tawa — 4.6 km
Porirua: clock, sun and surroundings
Local clocks in Porirua follow the Pacific/Auckland zone, UTC+12. Do they shift for daylight saving? No.
Sunlight reaches Porirua at 06:43 and fades after 18:00 today. The span is 11 h 17 min.
Anyone in Cannons Creek or Ascot Park reads the same clock as Porirua.
Porirua appears under 12 postal codes.
Questions and answers
- What time zone does Porirua observe?
- Porirua observes Pacific/Auckland, whose offset is +12.
- Are the clocks in Porirua adjusted for daylight saving?
- Daylight saving in Porirua: No.
- How late in the morning does the sun rise in Porirua?
- It rises at 06:43.