What country is 14 hours ahead of UK? (2024)

What country is 14 hours ahead of UK?

The islands of Samoa, Tokelau and Tonga are 13 hours ahead of London, while the Line Island is a full 14 hours ahead.

Kiribati – pronounced Kiribas – is the only nation on Earth to permanently trespass into GMT+14: the earliest time zone in the world. You can think of Kiribati as the eternal land of tomorrow: if it's Sunday where you are, it's probably Monday in Kiribati.

A summary of daylight savings in New Zealand for people in the UK and Europe: In January, February and March the time difference between NZ and the UK is 13 hours (NZ is 13 hours ahead) In April the time difference is 12 hours.

Japan is in a time zone referred to as “Japan Standard Time”(JST), which is 9 hours ahead of Greenwich Time. It is 17 hours ahead of Los Angeles, 14 hours ahead of New York, and 9 hours ahead of London. (During the summer, the difference is one hour less).

The country that is 14 hours ahead of the USA is New Zealand. Note on the time zone map that the USA has four time zones in its connected 48 states, with Alaska and Hawaii on different time zones from these.

The islands of Samoa, Tokelau and Tonga are 13 hours ahead of London, while the Line Island are a full 14 hours ahead. What's more bizarre is that these islands lie ACROSS the date line, so islands further west than them are over a whole day behind them in time.

You can see that the most extreme time zones are +14 hours at Line Islands (Kiribati), and -12 hours in and around Baker Islands (US). Therefore, the maximum possible difference between times on Earth is 26 hours. That means that at 11:00 PM of a Monday in Baker Island, it is 1:00 AM of a Wednesday in Line Islands.

To start out, Portugal is almost straight south of the UK. In fact, Lisbon is a bit WEST of London, not by much, about 7 degrees of longitude. It makes perfect sense that Portugal and England are in the same time zone.

Why is New Zealand a day ahead?

As New Zealand is one of the first countries in the world to receive the light of each new day and the US is one of the last, there is a significant time difference between the two countries.

Considering the 12 hours UTC and +14 hours UTC, the biggest time difference would be 26 hours, even beyond the theoretical 24 hours. So which places have a timezone difference of 26 hours? The answer would be the Howland Islands and the Republic of Kiribati's Line Islands.

The islands of Samoa, Tokelau and Tonga are 13 hours ahead of London, while the Line Island is a full 14 hours ahead.

Japan is in a time zone referred to as “Japan Standard Time”(JST), which is 9 hours ahead of Greenwich Time. It is 17 hours ahead of Los Angeles, 14 hours ahead of New York, and 9 hours ahead of London. (During the summer, the difference is one hour less).

Traditional Japanese clocks did not actually count backwards from 9. The confusion may stem from the fact that the traditional Japanese method of dividing the day into time periods, known as the temporal hour system, did not match the Western system of dividing the day into 24 equal hours.

While London and Paris are only about 2 degrees in separation, and if you strictly went by 15 degree wedges of the Earth, most of France would be on UTC+0, France uses CET (Central European Time), UTC+1.

New Zealand's Chatham Islands uses Chatham Standard Time Zone, an unusual time zone that is UTC +12:45. Along with Nepal and the unofficial Australian Central Western Time, it is the only three time zones that use a 45-minute offset from UTC. The island observes daylight savings so in the summer it is UTC +13:45.

The time zone that is farthest behind is Baker Island Time (BIT; UTC-12), the time on Baker and Howland Islands. However, those islands are officially uninhabited. The inhabited time zones that are farthest behind are American Samoa Standard Time (SST) and Niue Time (NUT). Both are UTC-11.

Ireland and Portugal, which also observe daylight saving, along with the Canary Islands in Spain; the Portuguese island of Madeira is also in the same time zone, but the Azores are an hour behind.

Why is France an hour ahead of UK?

European Standardisation

Nowadays, France is on Central European Time (Central European Summer Time in summer) while Britain is always an hour behind on Greenwich Mean Time (or Western European Time).

No, the time is the same.

Time zone. New Zealand is one of the first places in the world to see the new day, 12 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).

The maximum time difference between U.S. states is six hours. That is the difference between Eastern Daylight Saving Time (EDT; UTC-4) and Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (HAST; UTC-10).