Current time in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
The current local time in Port Moresby is shown below. Port Moresby observes PGT.
What's the daylight saving status?
Port Moresby 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/Port_Moresby
- Standard abbreviation
- PGT
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Port Moresby?
Papua New Guinea keeps a single main offset of UTC+10 across most of its territory, the same clock as eastern Australia in the southern winter and as the Pacific island of Guam, with no daylight saving. The country sits well to the east, so the sun rises early by the clock, with dawn around six throughout the year given the equatorial latitude. A separate offset applies in the Bougainville islands to the east, an hour ahead on UTC+11.
What are the working hours in Port Moresby?
The economy rests heavily on natural resources, gold, copper, and a major liquefied-natural-gas industry, alongside government and the subsistence agriculture that supports most of the population outside the towns. The working day in the capital runs broadly 08:00 to 16:30 on weekdays. The close economic ties to Australia, which shares the time zone in winter, shape much business coordination. The main closures follow the Christian calendar around Christmas and Easter, alongside the national independence celebrations in September.
Where is Port Moresby?
Port Moresby sits on the south-eastern coast of Papua New Guinea, on the Gulf of Papua, the capital of a country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and a scatter of smaller islands. The metropolitan area holds around 400,000 people. The nation is among the most rugged and least urbanised on earth, its interior of steep mountains and dense forest home to communities speaking more distinct languages, over 800, than any other country in the world.