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Wake Island keeps UTC+12 and Midway Atoll keeps SST, UTC-11, almost a full day apart. Neither atoll changes its clocks. The clock above shows Wake Island's time live, with seconds. Pick Midway above to move the main clock.

Updated 2 October 2026 · Time zone data 2026e · Sources

Time zones in the United States Minor Outlying Islands

Wake Island and Midway Atoll keep two different times. Wake runs 23 hours ahead of Midway. So Wake's calendar is usually a day ahead of Midway's. The buttons under the clock switch between the two.

Time zone	Standard time	Daylight saving time
Midway AtollMidway	SST, UTC-11	Not observed
Wake IslandWake	UTC+12	Not observed

How many hours ahead or behind Wake Island

On 7 October 2026, Honolulu is 22 hours behind Wake Island.

City	Difference from Wake Island
Honolulu	22 hours behind
Los Angeles	19 hours behind
Denver	18 hours behind
Chicago	17 hours behind
New York	16 hours behind
Guam	2 hours behind
Kwajalein	Same time
London	11 hours behind
Your time zone	Detected after this page loads

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How the islands keep time

Almost a day apart: 23 hours behindMidway's clock, measured from Wake Island's; Wake Island's clock runs 23 hours ahead of Midway's. So for all but one hour of each day, Wake's date is one day ahead of Midway's. Both atolls keep the same time in every season. The tz database files Wake under Tarawa and Midway under Pago Pago. Each pair has kept the same time for more than fifty years.; Sources IANA time zone database, backward links file, IANA time zone database, Australasia zones file
Wake Island, the Air Force's atoll: about 302inhabitants, by the Interior Department's count; The islands of Wake Atoll are an active US Air Force installation. A presidential executive order made the Interior Department responsible for the atoll's civil administration. Wake, Peale and Wilkes are its three coral islands. There is an airfield but no port. Wake lies west of Honolulu and northeast of Guam. The wildlife refuge around the islands is closed to the public.; Sources US Fish and Wildlife Service, Wake Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, US Department of the Interior, Office of Insular Affairs, Wake Atoll
Midway Atoll, the wildlife refuge: SST, UTC-11on Midway, the clock American Samoa keeps; Midway keeps SST, UTC-11, the same clock as American Samoa. The atoll lies at the far northern end of the Hawaiian archipelago. The US Fish and Wildlife Service runs it as a national wildlife refuge. It is also the Battle of Midway National Memorial. Service staff, volunteers and contractors live there. The refuge is closed to public visits.; Sources US Fish and Wildlife Service, Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, IANA time zone database, Australasia zones file
Not named in any federal zone: 9federal time zones, none of which names Wake or Midway; Federal law divides the United States into nine standard time zones. The Transportation Department draws each zone's limits by rule. Its rule bounds the Samoa zone by two meridians and names no island. Neither Midway nor Wake appears anywhere in the rule. The tz database records what the atolls keep in practice. Midway keeps American Samoa's time and Wake keeps UTC+12.; Sources GovInfo, 15 U.S.C. 261 zones for standard time, eCFR, 49 CFR Part 71 standard time zone boundaries

Questions about time in the United States Minor Outlying Islands

What time is it on Wake Island?

The clock at the top of this page shows Wake Island's time live, to the second. Wake keeps UTC+12 in every season. It runs 22 hours ahead of Honolulu. The Interior Department puts Wake 17 hours ahead of Eastern standard time. In the US summer that gap is an hour smaller.

What time zone is Wake Island in?

Wake Island keeps UTC+12, the same clock as the Marshall Islands and Kiribati's Gilbert Islands. The tz database files Wake as a link to Tarawa. No federal time zone rule names Wake. The nine zones end with the Chamorro zone of Guam and the Northern Marianas.

What time zone is Midway Atoll in?

Midway keeps SST, UTC-11, the time of American Samoa. Its clock is 1 hour behind Honolulu's in every season. No federal time zone rule names Midway. The Fish and Wildlife Service runs Midway as a refuge, closed to visitors.

Do Wake Island and Midway have daylight saving time?

No. Both keep one time in every season. The tz database records one summer when Midway moved its clocks forward, on a radio presenter's word. No other year is recorded. An American ambassador's secretary later recalled two hours of daylight saving on Wake. The database leaves that out for want of a second report.

How far ahead of New York, Los Angeles and London is Wake Island?

Wake is 17 hours ahead of New York in the US winter, and an hour less in summer. It is 20 hours ahead of Los Angeles in winter, an hour less in summer. London is 12 hours behind Wake in the British winter, an hour less in summer. Wake itself does not change its clocks.

Time zone names for developers

IANA zone	Standard time	Daylight saving time
Pacific/Pago_Pago	SST, UTC-11	No
Pacific/Tarawa	UTC+12	No

Sources

We checked each fact on this page against these sources on 2 October 2026. Times, offsets and clock changes come from the time zone database.