Angaur, Palau
Angaur observes Palau Time at UTC+9 all year and does not use daylight saving time. The island state shares Palau’s national clock, although its sunrise is specific to its southern location, the date, and the observer’s horizon.
Angaur, Palau
Friday, 4 September 2026
UTC+9 · Pacific/Palau
Time and sun data for Angaur — the largest city of Angaur
The sun in Angaur
Sunrise 05:57 Solar noon 12:04 Sunset 18:11 Daylight 12 h 14 min Night 11 h 46 min Civil twilight 05:36 – 18:32
Palau · 3 cities
Largest cities
- Angaur 320
- Angaur State 188
All cities
Current time in Angaur, Palau
Angaur is nine hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Add nine hours to a UTC reading to find local time, taking care to advance the date when necessary. Subtracting nine hours converts an Angaur time back to UTC.
The official hour is identical to that in Palau’s other states. A journey to or from Angaur changes location, not time zone, so clocks and phones should remain set to Palau Time.
Keeping time on UTC+9
The abbreviation PWT refers to Palau Time. Its UTC+9 offset is fixed through the year. There is no daylight-saving season and therefore no recurring clock change to account for in local plans. Use UTC+9 for Angaur appointments.
Record the local date when a conversion crosses midnight. Check the overseas participant’s current offset for international calls. Avoid treating an old sunrise listing as a year-round schedule. A calendar can handle the arithmetic when its event includes a recognized Palau zone. A plain hour without a zone is more easily misunderstood, especially by participants on another side of the International Date Line.
Angaur’s settlement and island daylight
Angaur is a small island state, so “largest cities” is not a natural description of its settlement pattern. Ngeremasch is the principal settlement name associated with the state. Any finer population comparison would need a clearly dated and defined local dataset rather than assumptions based on city terminology.
Angaur’s sunrise should be calculated for the island and the requested date. Its time may differ from a result for Koror or Babeldaob even though all use the same civil clock. Longitude and latitude influence the astronomical calculation, while trees, terrain, clouds, and nearby structures affect visibility.
On a small island, sunrise is easy to face; being awake for it remains a separate engineering problem. Dawn precedes sunrise and may provide useful light for walking, fishing, photography, or transport. Sunset is similarly followed by twilight. Anyone planning around visibility should consider these intervals and local weather instead of relying only on the published sunrise minute.
Questions and answers
- What is Angaur’s UTC offset?
- Angaur uses UTC+9 under Palau Time.
- Does Angaur have its own island time zone?
- No. It follows the same official time as the rest of Palau.
- Is sunrise simultaneous across Palau?
- Not exactly. The states share a clock, but their coordinates and local horizons produce slightly different sunrise observations.