GMT-11 Time Zone Countries list - UTC-11 Time Now
UTC−11 sits eleven hours behind Coordinated Universal Time. Subtract eleven hours from UTC and you have the local reading: 18:00 UTC is 07:00 here, the same calendar day. No place on this offset uses daylight saving, so the gap never changes.
UTC-11
Thursday, 3 September 2026
UTC−11 · Pacific/Midway
Shown for Pacific/Midway — one of the zones with this offset
- Offset: UTC-11
- Time zones with this offset: 3 (Pacific/Midway, Pacific/Niue, Pacific/Pago_Pago)
- Daylight saving time: none of these zones observe it — the offset stays the same all year.
Cities in UTC-11
- Pago Pago American Samoa
- Tafuna American Samoa
- Nu'Uuli American Samoa
- Leone American Samoa
- Faleniu American Samoa
- Ili'Ili American Samoa
- Aua American Samoa
- Mapusagafou American Samoa
- Fagatogo American Samoa
- Mapusaga American Samoa
- Vaitogi American Samoa
- Malaeimi American Samoa
Countries in UTC-11
Neighbouring offsets
World time zone map · All UTC offsets · Time by country
Islands and territories on UTC−11
This is one of the emptiest offsets on the map — a handful of Pacific islands and atolls, with no large landmass and no major city. The inhabited places on UTC−11 are few enough to list: American Samoa — Pago Pago, Tafuna and the rest of the territory.
Niue — the village of Alofi and the island's other settlements. Midway Atoll — a US possession with only a caretaker presence. Jarvis Island and other uninhabited US Pacific islands nominally on the same offset.
In North American timekeeping tables the offset is often labelled Samoa Standard Time, abbreviated SST. That name is a small trap: the independent country of Samoa no longer uses it.
Why the clocks here never move
Daylight saving exists to shift working hours toward the light in places where day length swings widely between winter and summer. Close to the equator that swing is small, so the whole exercise buys almost nothing. American Samoa and Niue both stay on one offset year-round, which means a fixed eleven-hour difference from UTC and a difference from mainland US cities that changes only because those cities move their clocks.
A neighbour a full day ahead
The international date line runs nearby, and it does not run straight. Samoa keeps UTC+13; American Samoa, a short flight away, keeps UTC−11. The two are twenty-four hours apart on the calendar while sharing very nearly the same sunrise.
Two islands can share a horizon and still disagree about the date by a full day. The sun is not confused. Only the calendar is. The practical effect: a Tuesday morning in Pago Pago is a Wednesday morning in Apia. If you schedule across that line, write the date as well as the hour, and write the offset next to both.
Compared with places most visitors come from, UTC−11 works out like this. Against UTC itself, eleven hours behind. Against US Pacific cities on standard time, three hours behind; against them on daylight time, four hours behind. Against Hawaii, one hour behind all year, since Hawaii is fixed too. Those last two comparisons are worth checking twice a year, because your side of the conversation is the side that moves.
Questions and answers
- Does anywhere on UTC−11 change clocks in summer?
- No. Every inhabited place on the offset stays put year-round. Any change in the difference between you and them comes from your own clocks.
- Is UTC−11 the same as Samoa time?
- Not any more. The abbreviation SST still appears in software, but the country of Samoa uses UTC+13. American Samoa is the territory that remains on UTC−11.
- How far behind Hawaii is UTC−11?
- One hour. Hawaii keeps UTC−10 without daylight saving, so the one-hour gap holds in January and July alike.