Dobson in numbers
- Coordinates
- -42.4500, 171.3000
- Population
- 828
- Region
- West Coast
- Country
- New Zealand, Oceania
- Capital
- Wellington — 316 km away
- Same name
- 4 more places in the world share this name
The current local time in Dobson, West Coast, New Zealand — time zone Pacific/Auckland (+13) — is shown right here.
Dobson, New Zealand
Tuesday, 3 November 2026
UTC+13 · Pacific/Auckland
Local time in Dobson
UTC+13 · daylight saving time is active
Dobson keeps Pacific/Auckland clock_time.
Sunrise 6:18 AM Solar noon 1:19 PM Sunset 8:20 PM Daylight 14 h 02 min Night 9 h 58 min Civil twilight 5:48 AM – 8:51 PM
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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.
No adjustment is needed moving between Dobson, Wallsend and Taylorville.
The register holds 6 postal codes for Dobson.
Clocks in Dobson take Pacific/Auckland as their zone, reading UTC+13. Daylight saving time applies: Yes.
Today the sun rises over Dobson at 6:18 AM and sets at 8:20 PM. That is 14 h 02 min of daylight in all.