Current time in Apia, Samoa
The current local time in Apia is shown below. Apia observes WST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Apia does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- Pacific/Apia
- Standard abbreviation
- WST
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇼🇸 Samoa
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Apia?
Samoa made one of the most dramatic timekeeping changes of modern times at the end of 2011, when it skipped Friday 30 December entirely and jumped from one side of the International Date Line to the other, moving from UTC-11 to UTC+13. The shift turned the country from one of the last places to see each day into one of the first, aligning it with its main trading partners in New Zealand and Australia rather than the United States. It now keeps UTC+13 year-round, having dropped daylight saving in 2021.
What are the working hours in Apia?
The economy rests on agriculture, fishing, tourism, and above all the remittances sent home by the large Samoan communities in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States, whose working hours the realigned clock now better matches. The working day runs broadly 08:00 to 16:30 on weekdays. Sunday is widely and strictly observed as a day of rest and church across this devoutly Christian country. The main closures follow the Christian calendar alongside the national independence celebrations in June.
Where is Apia?
Apia lies on the north coast of Upolu, the more populous of the two main islands of Samoa, an independent nation in the heart of the South Pacific. The town and its surroundings hold around 40,000 people, the country's only urban centre and the seat of its government and port. Samoa sits in the Polynesian triangle east of Fiji and north-east of New Zealand, with a traditional culture, the faʻa Samoa, that remains strong in everyday life.