Arawa, Papua New Guinea · UTC+11
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Arawa is in the Pacific/Bougainville timezone (BST/UTC+11). Bougainville moved its clocks one hour forward in 2014, separating from mainland Papua New Guinea at UTC+10.
Arawa is the main town of Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea that in December 2019 voted overwhelmingly for independence. That independence has not yet been finalized, but Bougainville’s desire for self-determination is well established. And one small act of that differentiation happened earlier: in 2014, Bougainville moved its clocks one hour forward to UTC+11, separating itself from mainland Papua New Guinea’s UTC+10.
The IANA identifier Pacific/Bougainville was added to the timezone database specifically for this change, one of the few cases where a sub-national region has its own dedicated IANA entry.
Arawa was built in the 1960s as a modern town to support the Panguna copper mine, one of the world’s largest open-pit copper mines at the time. The Panguna mine was central to the Bougainville Crisis of 1988 to 1998, a conflict over mining revenues and autonomy that cost thousands of lives. The mine remains closed. Arawa is now rebuilding as the administrative capital of a region charting its own path.
Aligning with the Solomon Islands
The timezone change, placing Bougainville with the Solomon Islands (UTC+11) rather than Papua New Guinea (UTC+10), reflects Bougainville’s closer geographic and cultural ties to the Solomon Islands chain.
9am in Arawa is 10pm the previous night in London during European winter.
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Questions about time in Arawa
- What timezone is Arawa in?
- Arawa uses the IANA timezone
Pacific/Bougainville. The UTC offset is always UTC+11 — this timezone does not observe daylight saving time. - Does Arawa observe daylight saving time?
- No. Arawa does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC+11 all year round.
- What is the current UTC offset for Arawa?
- Arawa is currently at UTC+11.
- What is the time difference between Arawa and New York?
- Arawa is currently 15 hours ahead of New York.
- What is the time difference between Arawa and London?
- Arawa is currently 10 hours ahead of London.
- What is the time difference between Arawa and Los Angeles?
- Arawa is currently 18 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the time difference between Arawa and Tokyo?
- Arawa is currently 2 hours ahead of Tokyo.
- What is the IANA timezone name for Arawa?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for Arawa is
Pacific/Bougainville. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Pacific/Bougainville' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Pacific/Bougainville')`), or any IANA-compatible library.