The Easternmost Cities in the World

Major cities (population 100,000+) ranked by longitude, furthest east first. Longitude is measured from the Prime Meridian, so cities near +180° are the first on Earth to see a new calendar day.

#	Name	Longitude
1	Tauranga Bay of Plenty, New Zealand	176.17° E
2	Hamilton Waikato Region, New Zealand	175.28° E
3	Lower Hutt Wellington Region, New Zealand	174.92° E
4	Manukau City Auckland, New Zealand	174.88° E
5	Wellington Wellington Region, New Zealand	174.78° E
6	Auckland Auckland, New Zealand	174.76° E
7	North Shore Auckland, New Zealand	174.75° E
8	Christchurch Canterbury, New Zealand	172.63° E
9	Dunedin Otago, New Zealand	170.50° E
10	Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Kamchatka, Russia	158.63° E
11	Gold Coast Queensland, Australia	153.43° E
12	Logan City Queensland, Australia	153.11° E
13	Sunshine Coast Queensland, Australia	153.08° E
14	Brisbane Queensland, Australia	153.03° E
15	Toowoomba Queensland, Australia	151.95° E
16	Newcastle New South Wales, Australia	151.78° E
17	Central Coast New South Wales, Australia	151.37° E
18	Sydney New South Wales, Australia	151.21° E
19	Wollongong New South Wales, Australia	150.89° E
20	Canberra Australian Capital Territory, Australia	149.13° E
21	Hobart Tasmania, Australia	147.33° E
22	Port Moresby National Capital, Papua New Guinea	147.15° E
23	Townsville Queensland, Australia	146.81° E
24	Cairns Queensland, Australia	145.77° E
25	Melbourne Victoria, Australia	144.96° E
26	City of Port Phillip Victoria, Australia	144.94° E
27	Kushiro Hokkaido, Japan	144.37° E
28	Geelong Victoria, Australia	144.36° E
29	Bendigo Victoria, Australia	144.28° E
30	Kitami Hokkaido, Japan	143.89° E
31	Ballarat Victoria, Australia	143.85° E
32	Obihiro Hokkaido, Japan	143.20° E
33	Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Sakhalin Oblast, Russia	142.74° E
34	Asahikawa Hokkaido, Japan	142.36° E
35	Tomakomai Hokkaido, Japan	141.60° E
36	Ebetsu Hokkaido, Japan	141.55° E
37	Hachinohe Aomori, Japan	141.50° E
38	Sapporo Hokkaido, Japan	141.35° E
39	Ishinomaki Miyagi, Japan	141.30° E
40	Ōshū Iwate, Japan	141.17° E
41	Morioka Iwate, Japan	141.15° E
42	Ichinoseki Iwate, Japan	141.13° E
43	Otaru Hokkaido, Japan	141.00° E
44	Ōsaki Miyagi, Japan	140.97° E
45	Iwaki Fukushima, Japan	140.88° E
46	Sendai Miyagi, Japan	140.87° E
47	Hakodate Hokkaido, Japan	140.74° E
48	Aomori Aomori, Japan	140.73° E
49	Jayapura Papua, Indonesia	140.72° E
50	Hitachi Ibaraki, Japan	140.65° E

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Frequently asked questions

Which city is furthest east?

Cities in Fiji, New Zealand and eastern Russia sit closest to the 180th meridian and are among the first in the world to start a new day.

Why do easternmost cities see the new day first?

The International Date Line runs near 180° longitude, so places just west of it — the easternmost longitudes — cross into each new date first.

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