What time is it in Australia?

Australia is currently on daylight saving time, UTC+11:00. The next change is Sunday, April 4, 2027, when clocks go back one hour — 3:00 am becomes 2:00 am local time.

Australia spans 7 time zones, so “the time in Australia” depends where. Each has its own page. The IANA database lists 12 zone entries for Australia; the others are historical splits that now keep the same clock as one of these.

Sydney is 16 hours ahead of New York and 19 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 1:00 am the next day in Sydney.

To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.

The day is 13 hours 49 minutes long in Sydney, and gaining 2 minutes a day. The sun peaks at 12:39 pm, 39 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Sydney sits 55 minutes of solar time west of UTC+11:00’s. A full hour of that is daylight saving, which moves the clock away from the sun deliberately, and what is left over is the equation of time.

The solar year swings 4 hours 31 minutes in Sydney: 14 hours 24 minutes of daylight at the December solstice against 9 hours 54 minutes at the June one. Being south of the equator, its longest day falls in December — the opposite way round from the other hemisphere.

On UTC+11:00 right now, the same clock as Australia: