What timezone is Marquesas in?

Marquesas uses the IANA timezone Pacific/Marquesas. The UTC offset is always UTC-9:30 — this timezone does not observe daylight saving time.

Does Marquesas observe daylight saving time?

No. Marquesas does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC-9:30 all year round.

What is the current UTC offset for Marquesas?

Marquesas is currently at UTC-9:30.

What is the time difference between Marquesas and New York?

Marquesas is currently 5 hours 30 minutes behind New York.

What is the time difference between Marquesas and London?

Marquesas is currently 10 hours 30 minutes behind London.

Marquesas, French Polynesia · UTC-9:30

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Wednesday, April 1, 2026

W14 ↑ 05:50 ↓ 17:51 No DST

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The Marquesas Islands sit in the South Pacific at UTC-9:30, one of the rarest timezone offsets in the world. They are 30 minutes behind most of French Polynesia’s other islands, which run on UTC-10. No daylight saving applies.

The half-hour offset has no grand historical explanation. It reflects the geographic position of the islands and a practical decision to set a local time that felt more aligned with solar noon than the full UTC-10 offset of the neighboring Tahiti-centered Society Islands.

artists who came and stayed

Herman Melville spent time in the Marquesas and described them in Typee (1846). Paul Gauguin spent the last years of his life on Hiva Oa, one of the Marquesas islands, dying there in 1903. Jacques Brel, the Belgian singer-songwriter, retired to the Marquesas in the 1970s and is buried on Hiva Oa beside Gauguin. The islands have an outsized presence in Western artistic imagination.

At 9 to 10 degrees south latitude, day length barely varies. The half-hour offset is more visible in scheduling than in daylight experience.

9am in the Marquesas is 6:30pm in London during European winter, that unusual half-hour making the calculation briefly pause.

Sources

IANA timezone Pacific/Marquesas

Current offset UTC-9:30

Daylight saving No DST observed

— Mon–Fri, 09:00–17:00 Marquesas local time

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Questions about time in Marquesas

What timezone is Marquesas in?: Marquesas uses the IANA timezone Pacific/Marquesas. The UTC offset is always UTC-9:30 — this timezone does not observe daylight saving time.
Does Marquesas observe daylight saving time?: No. Marquesas does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC-9:30 all year round.
What is the current UTC offset for Marquesas?: Marquesas is currently at UTC-9:30.
What is the time difference between Marquesas and New York?: Marquesas is currently 5 hours 30 minutes behind New York.
What is the time difference between Marquesas and London?: Marquesas is currently 10 hours 30 minutes behind London.
What is the time difference between Marquesas and Los Angeles?: Marquesas is currently 2 hours 30 minutes behind Los Angeles.
What is the time difference between Marquesas and Tokyo?: Marquesas is currently 18 hours 30 minutes behind Tokyo.
What is the IANA timezone name for Marquesas?: The IANA timezone database identifier for Marquesas is Pacific/Marquesas. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Pacific/Marquesas' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Pacific/Marquesas')`), or any IANA-compatible library.