Ternate, Indonesia Β· UTC+9
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Ternate is a city built on the slopes of an active volcano, Gamalama, on an island roughly 11 kilometers wide. It was the center of the global clove trade for centuries, the reason European powers spent fortunes and lives navigating to the opposite side of the world. The Portuguese arrived in 1512. The Dutch and Spanish fought over the island for generations. The nutmeg and cloves that grew here set the price of European spice markets and indirectly shaped the borders of the modern world.
Today, Ternate is the largest city in North Maluku province and runs on Eastern Indonesia Time, UTC+9, the same clock used in Papua and the far eastern islands of Indonesia. Indonesia uses three timezone bands across its vast east-west span, and Ternate sits in the easternmost.
equatorial island, prayer and tides
At roughly 0.8 degrees north latitude, Ternate is nearly on the equator. Sunrise and sunset vary by only a few minutes across the year. The clock here is almost irrelevant to natural light cycles. What matters more is the call to prayer (the population is predominantly Muslim), the ferry schedule to nearby Tidore island, and the fishing tides.
9am in Ternate is midnight in London. Jayapura in Papua shares the Eastern Indonesia Time zone.
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Questions about time in Ternate
- What timezone is Ternate in?
- Ternate uses the IANA timezone
Asia/Jayapura. The UTC offset is always UTC+9 - this timezone does not observe daylight saving time. - Does Ternate observe daylight saving time?
- No. Ternate does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC+9 all year round.
- What is the current UTC offset for Ternate?
- Ternate is currently at UTC+9.
- What is the time difference between Ternate and New York?
- Ternate is currently 13 hours ahead of New York.
- What is the time difference between Ternate and London?
- Ternate is currently 8 hours ahead of London.
- What is the time difference between Ternate and Los Angeles?
- Ternate is currently 16 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the IANA timezone name for Ternate?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for Ternate is
Asia/Jayapura. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Asia/Jayapura' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Asia/Jayapura')`), or any IANA-compatible library.