What timezone is Easter in?

Easter uses the IANA timezone Pacific/Easter. The UTC offset is UTC-6 in winter (standard time) and UTC-5 during daylight saving time (summer).

Does Easter observe daylight saving time?

Yes. Easter observes daylight saving time, shifting from UTC-6 (standard time) to UTC-5 in summer.

What is the current UTC offset for Easter?

Easter is currently at UTC-5. It is currently observing daylight saving time.

What is the time difference between Easter and New York?

Easter is currently 1 hour behind New York.

What is the time difference between Easter and London?

Easter is currently 6 hours behind London.

Easter, Chile · UTC-5

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Easter is in the Pacific/Easter timezone (EAST/UTC-5, shifting to EAST/UTC-6 during daylight saving time). Easter Island, known to its Rapa Nui people as Te Pito o Te Henua (“the navel of the world”), sits in the South Pacific at 27 degrees south, 3,700 kilometers west of the Chilean coast. It is one of the most isolated permanently inhabited places on Earth. The IANA identifier Pacific/Easter gives the island its own timezone, reflecting its unique geographic position.

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Easter Island observes Chilean DST, shifting between UTC-6 (Easter Island Standard Time) and UTC-5 (Easter Island Summer Time) following mainland Chile’s schedule, adjusted for the Southern Hemisphere. In practice, the island sits 2 hours behind mainland Chile in winter and 1 hour behind in summer, when Chile also shifts its clocks.

Hanga Roa, the island’s only town, has a population of roughly 7,500, many of whom are Rapa Nui descended from the people who carved the famous moai statues. The island’s rhythm has been shaped more by its isolation and the rhythm of the Pacific than by any administrative timezone. Flights from Santiago arrive twice a week. Supply ships come monthly. Between those arrivals, the island runs on its own time in a deeper sense than any IANA entry captures.

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Sources

IANA Time Zone Database
Dirección Meteorológica de Chile
Flenley, John and Paul Bahn. The Enigmas of Easter Island. Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Questions about time in Easter

What timezone is Easter in?: Easter is in Central Time (CT), using the IANA timezone Pacific/Easter. The standard UTC offset is UTC-6 (CST) in winter and UTC-5 (CDT) during daylight saving time.
Does Easter observe daylight saving time?: Yes. Easter observes daylight saving time. In 2026, clocks spring forward one hour on Sunday, September 6 and fall back one hour on Sunday, April 5. During DST, the UTC offset shifts from UTC-6 to UTC-5.
What is the current UTC offset for Easter?: Easter is currently at UTC-5. It is currently observing daylight saving time.
What is the time difference between Easter and New York?: Easter is currently 1 hour behind New York.
What is the time difference between Easter and London?: Easter is currently 6 hours behind London.
What is the time difference between Easter and Los Angeles?: Easter is currently 2 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
What is the time difference between Easter and Tokyo?: Easter is currently 14 hours behind Tokyo. Tokyo does not observe daylight saving time, so this gap changes by 1 hour when Easter transitions to/from DST.
What is the IANA timezone name for Easter?: The IANA timezone database identifier for Easter is Pacific/Easter. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Pacific/Easter' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Pacific/Easter')`), or any IANA-compatible library.