🇦🇶 Antarctica
Time, holidays, currency and practical info for Antarctica.
Current local time
Antarctica spans 8 time zones — the current time depends on which one. Pick a city below or browse the time-zone list to see local time.
Time zones in Antarctica (8)
- Antarctica/PalmerUTC−3 (GMT-3) · Chile Time
- Antarctica/TrollUTC+0 (GMT) · DST · Greenwich Mean Time
- Antarctica/SyowaUTC+3 (GMT+3) · Syowa Time
- Antarctica/MawsonUTC+5 (GMT+5) · Mawson Time
- Antarctica/DavisUTC+7 (GMT+7) · Davis Time
- Antarctica/CaseyUTC+8 (GMT+8) · Australian Western Time
- Antarctica/DumontDUrvilleUTC+10 (GMT+10) · Dumont d’Urville Time
- Antarctica/McMurdoUTC+12 (GMT+12) · DST · New Zealand Time
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At a glance
- Capital
- —
- Region
- Antarctic
- Subregion
- Population
- 1,300
- Area
- 14,000,000 km²
- Currency
- —
- Calling code
- —
- Driving side
- right
- Languages
- —
- Internet TLD
- .aq
About
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent, being about 40% larger than Europe, and has an area of 14,200,000 km2 (5,500,000 sq mi). Most of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, with an average thickness of 1.9 km (1.2 mi).
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