Current Time in St Helena

Daylight saving time in St Helena

St Helena does not observe daylight saving time. Its offset stays at UTC+00:00 every day of the year, which makes it one of the simpler zones to work with: a fixed offset is enough to convert any timestamp, and there are no missing or repeated local hours.

Converting timestamps for this zone in code

Always pass the IANA identifier Atlantic/St_Helena rather than a numeric offset. The identifier carries the zone's entire history of offset and daylight saving changes, so a timestamp from any year converts correctly; a hard-coded offset is only right until the next rule change.

# Python
from datetime import datetime
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
datetime.fromtimestamp(1710050400, ZoneInfo("Atlantic/St_Helena"))

// JavaScript
new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-GB', { timeZone: 'Atlantic/St_Helena',
  dateStyle: 'full', timeStyle: 'long' }).format(new Date(1710050400 * 1000));

<?php // PHP
(new DateTimeImmutable("@1710050400"))->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone("Atlantic/St_Helena"));

More languages on the code examples pages.

How this zone's rules have changed since 1970

Since the start of Unix time in 1970, St Helena has kept a standard offset of UTC+00:00 and has never observed daylight saving. A zone this stable is forgiving to work with: a timestamp from any year in that span converts with the same rule that applies today.

When it is 12:00 in St Helena

Midday here against the clocks most schedules are written around, for Thursday, 22 October 2026 at 12:00:00 GMT:

Zones currently on UTC+00:00

19 other IANA zones are on UTC+00:00 at this moment. They agree on the clock today but not necessarily tomorrow — zones that observe daylight saving on different dates diverge and rejoin through the year, which is why an offset alone can never stand in for a zone.

• AbidjanAfrica/Abidjan
• AccraAfrica/Accra
• BamakoAfrica/Bamako
• BanjulAfrica/Banjul
• BissauAfrica/Bissau
• CasablancaAfrica/Casablanca
• ConakryAfrica/Conakry
• DakarAfrica/Dakar
• El AaiunAfrica/El_Aaiun
• FreetownAfrica/Freetown
• LomeAfrica/Lome
• MonroviaAfrica/Monrovia