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Midnight on 1 January 2027 does not happen once. It happens again, and again, across 26 hours, from Kiritimati to Baker Island. This clock is set to Nairobi — and when Nairobi’s midnight passes it follows the year west. It does not stop.

Nairobi · EAT  :  :  

Counting toMidnight in Nairobi1 January 2027 · East Africa Time

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No clock has turned over yet37 still to come

Why it never stops

  1. 01

    The year arrives in waves

    Local midnight sweeps westward from UTC+14 to UTC−12. Kiritimati keeps the first midnight on earth and Baker Island, uninhabited, the last. Between the two is 26 hours in which the year is both over and not yet begun.

  2. 02

    The clock is set to Nairobi

    East Africa Time, where the firm keeps its own hours. Nairobi, Mombasa, Kwale, Lunga Lunga turn over together; the Dubai desk an hour earlier.

  3. 03

    There is no final zero

    When Nairobi's midnight passes, the clock follows the year west to the next place still waiting. When the last clock on earth turns over, it sets itself to the New Year after this one and begins again.

Every midnight on this clock

The cities this clock follows, and the moment each one turns over read off a Nairobi clock. A selection rather than a census — the world keeps more distinct offsets than there are places worth naming.

  1. UTC+14KiritimatiWaiting
  2. UTC+13:45Chatham IslandsWaiting
  3. UTC+13Apia · Auckland · Nuku‘alofaWaiting
  4. UTC+12SuvaWaiting
  5. UTC+11Sydney · Melbourne · HoniaraWaiting
  6. UTC+10:30AdelaideWaiting
  7. UTC+10Brisbane · Port MoresbyWaiting
  8. UTC+9:30DarwinWaiting
  9. UTC+9Tokyo · SeoulWaiting
  10. UTC+8:45EuclaWaiting
  11. UTC+8Beijing · Singapore · ManilaWaiting
  12. UTC+7Bangkok · JakartaWaiting
  13. UTC+6:30YangonWaiting
  14. UTC+6DhakaWaiting
  15. UTC+5:45KathmanduWaiting
  16. UTC+5:30Mumbai · ColomboWaiting
  17. UTC+5Karachi · TashkentWaiting
  18. UTC+4:30KabulWaiting
  19. UTC+4Dubai · MuscatWaiting
  20. UTC+3:30TehranWaiting
  21. UTC+3Nairobi · Mombasa · Kwale · Lunga Lunga · Dar es Salaam · Kampala · Addis AbabaWaiting
  22. UTC+2Cairo · Johannesburg · Harare · Athens · KyivWaiting
  23. UTC+1Paris · Berlin · Lagos · Kinshasa · AlgiersWaiting
  24. UTC+0London · Lisbon · Accra · Abidjan · DakarWaiting
  25. UTC−1Azores · PraiaWaiting
  26. UTC−2Fernando de NoronhaWaiting
  27. UTC−3São Paulo · Buenos Aires · SantiagoWaiting
  28. UTC−4Halifax · CaracasWaiting
  29. UTC−5New York · Toronto · BogotáWaiting
  30. UTC−6Chicago · Mexico CityWaiting
  31. UTC−7Denver · VancouverWaiting
  32. UTC−8Los AngelesWaiting
  33. UTC−9AnchorageWaiting
  34. UTC−9:30Marquesas IslandsWaiting
  35. UTC−10HonoluluWaiting
  36. UTC−11Pago PagoWaiting
  37. UTC−12Baker IslandWaiting