Lae, Papua New Guinea · UTC+10
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Lae is Papua New Guinea’s second city and its industrial heartland, a port on the Huon Gulf with the country’s largest industrial zone, main university, and the terminus of the Highlands Highway connecting it to the interior of New Guinea. It runs on Pacific/Port_Moresby time: UTC+10, year-round, no daylight saving.
The Huon Gulf receives the Markham River, one of Papua New Guinea’s most significant waterways, which drains the broad Markham Valley toward the coast at Lae. The valley floor is a critical agricultural zone, and Lae’s port handles much of the valley’s copra, coffee, and palm oil exports.
WWII airfields and PNG’s industrial engine
Lae has historical significance from World War II. The city was occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1943, and the campaign to retake it, including parachute drops on Nadzab in the Markham Valley, was among the first large-scale airborne operations in the Pacific. The airfields built during that period became the foundation of modern air transport in PNG.
At 6 degrees south of the equator, Lae has near-constant daylength. Sunrise around 6am, sunset around 6pm, year-round. The wet and dry seasons, and the tidal schedule at the port, matter more to daily life than the clock.
9am in Lae is midnight in London the previous night, ten hours ahead.
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Questions about time in Lae
- What timezone is Lae in?
- Lae uses the IANA timezone
Pacific/Port_Moresby. The UTC offset is always UTC+10 — this timezone does not observe daylight saving time. - Does Lae observe daylight saving time?
- No. Lae does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC+10 all year round.
- What is the current UTC offset for Lae?
- Lae is currently at UTC+10.
- What is the time difference between Lae and New York?
- Lae is currently 14 hours ahead of New York.
- What is the time difference between Lae and London?
- Lae is currently 9 hours ahead of London.
- What is the time difference between Lae and Los Angeles?
- Lae is currently 17 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the time difference between Lae and Tokyo?
- Lae is currently 1 hour ahead of Tokyo.
- What is the IANA timezone name for Lae?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for Lae is
Pacific/Port_Moresby. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Pacific/Port_Moresby' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Pacific/Port_Moresby')`), or any IANA-compatible library.