Current time in Melbourne, Australia right now

It is 1:12 pm in Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺 right now, on Sunday, September 27, 2026. The city keeps Australia/Melbourne, which is UTC+10 at UTC+10, so Melbourne is 10 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 3:12 am. The sun rose in Melbourne at 6:03 am and sets at 6:21 pm, which is 12 hours 18 minutes of daylight.

What time is it in Melbourne right now?

The time in Melbourne, Australia is 1:12 pm, 13:12 on a 24 hour clock, on Sunday September 27, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Australia/Melbourne rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.

Melbourne sits at 37.81 degrees south and 144.96 degrees east, in the subtropical belt and 4,205 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 150.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 5.0 degrees west of that line. Those 5.0 degrees are worth 20 minutes 9 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:11 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.

Melbourne time zone and UTC offset

The IANA zone for Melbourne, Australia is Australia/Melbourne. Right now it is running at UTC+10 and the abbreviation in force is UTC+10. Melbourne is on standard time at the moment, at UTC+10. It moves to UTC+11 for part of the year.

Daylight hours in Melbourne today

The sun rose in Melbourne at 6:03 am and sets at 6:21 pm, which is 12 hours 18 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Melbourne, is at 12:11 pm, which is 11 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.59 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 53.8 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the north.

The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Melbourne, which works from the same coordinates.

Where Melbourne is on the map

The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.

Time difference between Melbourne and major cities

Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Melbourne.

Best time to call Melbourne

Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.

Other cities in Australia

We cover 22 cities in Australia. These are the ones nearest to Melbourne, with the time on their clocks right now.

Cities on Australia/Melbourne time

5 of our cities keep Australia/Melbourne, so every one of them reads 1:12 pm at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Melbourne. Nearest first:

Moon phase over Melbourne tonight

The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 16.0 days into its cycle and about 98% lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 at 3:11 pm Melbourne time, and the next new moon on October 11, 2026 at 2:49 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Melbourne clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.

When the clocks change in Melbourne

The next change is on Sunday, October 4, 2026, 7 days from now, when the clocks in Melbourne go forward 1 hour at 1:59 am and the offset moves from UTC+10 to UTC+11.

Two things follow from that. Any standing call with Melbourne shifts by an hour on that date unless the other side moves the same weekend, and every offset printed on this page is the offset for today rather than a fixed property of the city.

How far Melbourne is from other cities

Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Melbourne is City of Port Phillip, Australia at 3 km, and the furthest is Funchal, Portugal at 18,277 km, which is 91% of the way to being exactly opposite.

The antipode of Melbourne

Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Melbourne, Australia and you come out at 37.81 degrees north, 35.04 degrees west. That point is in the North Atlantic Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Funchal, Portugal, 1,738 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 4:12 am on Sunday.

The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 37.81 degrees south becomes 37.81 degrees north, and 144.96 degrees east becomes 35.04 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Melbourne is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-2, roughly twelve hours from Melbourne, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.

Sunrise and sunset in Melbourne

Today the sun rises in Melbourne at 6:03 am and sets at 6:21 pm, giving 12 hours 18 minutes of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Melbourne.

Sun and moon in Melbourne today

The sun is up in Melbourne for 12 hours 18 minutes today, from 6:03 am to 6:21 pm. The moon sets in Melbourne at 5:57 am and comes up again at 7:04 pm. The next phase is the last quarter on October 3, 2026. The moon is full, or as near to it as makes no difference, and the whole of the face turned towards us is lit.

Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.

Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.

Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.

Prayer times in Melbourne

Seven days from September 27, 2026, computed for Melbourne, Australia at 37.81 degrees south, 144.96 degrees east, on the clock of Australia/Melbourne. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.

Dhuhr is solar noon at Melbourne, Australia, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.

Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.

Qibla direction from Melbourne

From Melbourne, Australia the qibla is 278.8 degrees on a true compass, which is west, or 8.8 degrees south of due west. The Kaaba is 12,741 km away, 7,917 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Melbourne, Australia to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram. On a flat map Mecca looks north of here, but the shortest path runs northwest, and the qibla is the bearing of that path rather than the direction on the map.

The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Melbourne, Australia before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.

Melbourne time now: common questions

What time is it in Melbourne, Australia right now?

1:12 pm on Sunday September 27, 2026. Melbourne runs on UTC+10, UTC+10.

What time zone is Melbourne in?

Australia/Melbourne, currently UTC+10 at UTC+10. 5 of the cities on this site keep that zone.

What is the UTC offset for Melbourne?

UTC+10 at this instant. It alternates between UTC+10 and UTC+11 across the year.

Does Melbourne observe daylight saving time?

Yes. The next change is October 4, 2026, when the clocks go forward.

How many hours ahead or behind is Melbourne of New York?

Melbourne is 14 hours ahead of New York, where it is 11:12 pm right now.

What time does the sun set in Melbourne today?

6:21 pm, after a sunrise at 6:03 am and 12 hours 18 minutes of daylight.

What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Melbourne?

37.81 degrees north, 35.04 degrees west, in the North Atlantic Ocean.

When is the best time to call Melbourne from London?

There is no shared working hour: London is 9 hours behind of Melbourne, which puts the two working days apart.

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