Current time in Kailua-Kona, United States
The current local time in Kailua-Kona is shown below. Kailua-Kona observes HST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Kailua-Kona 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/Honolulu
- Standard abbreviation
- HST
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Kailua-Kona?
Kailua-Kona uses Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time at UTC-10 year-round with no daylight saving, the same offset as the rest of the state since the 1947 abolition of DST in Hawaii. The state's tropical latitude (Kona sits at around 19.6 degrees north) produces minimal seasonal day-length variation, removing any rationale for DST. The position 30 minutes earlier than the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia represents one of the only modern uses of a half-hour offset that close to the dateline.
What are the working hours in Kailua-Kona?
Kailua-Kona's working economy is dominated by tourism, the Kona coffee industry (the slopes above the town produce around 2.7 million pounds of coffee annually), and a substantial sport-fishing sector based out of the harbour. Office hours run 08:00 to 17:00 in conventional sectors, with retail and hospitality opening to cruise-ship and visitor schedules. The Ironman World Championship in October has been held in Kailua-Kona since 1981 and is the community's largest annual event, drawing professional triathletes from around the world.
Where is Kailua-Kona?
Kailua-Kona sits on the western coast of the Big Island of Hawaii, in the rain-shadow of the Mauna Loa volcano. The community holds around 22,000 residents, the largest town on the Big Island's drier western shore. The geography is dramatic: Mauna Loa rises to 4,170 metres immediately east, and the snow-capped Mauna Kea at 4,205 metres dominates the central island skyline. The coastal coffee belt at around 500 metres elevation produces the Kona coffee grown on the slopes above the town, the only major coffee region in the United States.