Current time in Newcastle, Australia right now
It is 5:12 am in Newcastle, Australia 🇦🇺 right now, on Sunday, September 27, 2026. The city keeps Australia/Sydney, which is AEST at UTC+10, so Newcastle is 10 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 7:12 pm. The sun rose in Newcastle at 5:36 am and sets at 5:52 pm, which is 12 hours 16 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Newcastle right now?
The time in Newcastle, Australia is 5:12 am, 05:12 on a 24 hour clock, on Sunday September 27, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Australia/Sydney rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Newcastle sits at 32.93 degrees south and 151.78 degrees east, in the subtropical belt and 3,662 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 150.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 1.8 degrees east of that line. Those 1.8 degrees are worth 7 minutes 7 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 11:44 am rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Newcastle time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Newcastle, Australia is Australia/Sydney. Right now it is running at UTC+10 and the abbreviation in force is AEST. Newcastle is on standard time at the moment, at UTC+10. It moves to UTC+11 for part of the year.
Daylight hours in Newcastle today
The sun rose in Newcastle at 5:36 am and sets at 5:52 pm, which is 12 hours 16 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Newcastle, is at 11:44 am, which is 16 minutes before clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.58 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 58.7 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the north.
| Reading | Time in Newcastle |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 5:36 am |
| Sunset | 5:52 pm |
| Solar noon | 11:44 am |
| Day length | 12 hours 16 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 5:20 pm to 6:07 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 6:17 pm |
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 Newcastle, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Newcastle 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.
An interactive map of Newcastle. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Newcastle on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Newcastle 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 Newcastle.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Newcastle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 12:12 pm | -17 | 17 hours behind of Newcastle |
| Chicago, Illinois | 2:12 pm | -15 | 15 hours behind of Newcastle |
| New York, New York | 3:12 pm | -14 | 14 hours behind of Newcastle |
| Toronto, Canada | 3:12 pm | -14 | 14 hours behind of Newcastle |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 4:12 pm | -13 | 13 hours behind of Newcastle |
| London, United Kingdom | 8:12 pm | -9 | 9 hours behind of Newcastle |
| Paris, France | 9:12 pm | -8 | 8 hours behind of Newcastle |
| Berlin, Germany | 9:12 pm | -8 | 8 hours behind of Newcastle |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 9:12 pm | -8 | 8 hours behind of Newcastle |
| Moscow, Russia | 10:12 pm | -7 | 7 hours behind of Newcastle |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 11:12 pm | -6 | 6 hours behind of Newcastle |
| Delhi, India | 12:42 am | -4:30 | 4 hours 30 minutes behind of Newcastle |
| Singapore, Singapore | 3:12 am | -2 | 2 hours behind of Newcastle |
| Hong Kong, China | 3:12 am | -2 | 2 hours behind of Newcastle |
| Tokyo, Japan | 4:12 am | -1 | 1 hour behind of Newcastle |
| Sydney, Australia | 5:12 am | 0 | same time as Newcastle |
Best time to call Newcastle
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.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Newcastle | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | -14 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| Los Angeles | -17 | 9:00 am to 11:00 am | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
| London | -9 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| Delhi | -4:30 | 1:30 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 1:30 pm |
| Sydney | 0 | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm |
Other cities in Australia
We cover 22 cities in Australia. These are the ones nearest to Newcastle, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Coast | New South Wales | 5:12 am | UTC+10 |
| Sydney | New South Wales | 5:12 am | UTC+10 |
| Wollongong | New South Wales | 5:12 am | UTC+10 |
| Canberra | Australian Capital Territory | 5:12 am | UTC+10 |
| Gold Coast | Queensland | 5:12 am | UTC+10 |
| Toowoomba | Queensland | 5:12 am | UTC+10 |
| Logan City | Queensland | 5:12 am | UTC+10 |
| Brisbane | Queensland | 5:12 am | UTC+10 |
| Sunshine Coast | Queensland | 5:12 am | UTC+10 |
| Bendigo | Victoria | 5:12 am | UTC+10 |
| Melbourne | Victoria | 5:12 am | UTC+10 |
| City of Port Phillip | Victoria | 5:12 am | UTC+10 |
| Ballarat | Victoria | 5:12 am | UTC+10 |
| Geelong | Victoria | 5:12 am | UTC+10 |
| Hobart | Tasmania | 5:12 am | UTC+10 |
| Adelaide | South Australia | 4:42 am | UTC+9:30 |
Cities on Australia/Sydney time
5 of our cities keep Australia/Sydney, so every one of them reads 5:12 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Newcastle. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Newcastle |
|---|---|---|
| Central Coast, Australia | 5:12 am | 67 km |
| Sydney, Australia | 5:12 am | 117 km |
| Wollongong, Australia | 5:12 am | 185 km |
| Canberra, Australia | 5:12 am | 358 km |
Moon phase over Newcastle tonight
The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 15.7 days into its cycle and about 99% lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 at 3:11 pm Sydney 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 Newcastle clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Newcastle
The next change is on Sunday, October 4, 2026, 7 days from now, when the clocks in Newcastle 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 Newcastle 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 Newcastle is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Newcastle is Central Coast, Australia at 67 km, and the furthest is Funchal, Portugal at 18,960 km, which is 95% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Coast, Australia | 67 | 42 | south west | 5:12 am |
| Sydney, Australia | 117 | 73 | south west | 5:12 am |
| Wollongong, Australia | 185 | 115 | south west | 5:12 am |
| Canberra, Australia | 358 | 222 | south west | 5:12 am |
| Gold Coast, Australia | 570 | 354 | north | 5:12 am |
| Toowoomba, Australia | 597 | 371 | north | 5:12 am |
| Logan City, Australia | 602 | 374 | north | 5:12 am |
| Brisbane, Australia | 619 | 384 | north | 5:12 am |
| Sunshine Coast, Australia | 709 | 440 | north | 5:12 am |
| Bendigo, Australia | 806 | 501 | south west | 5:12 am |
The antipode of Newcastle
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Newcastle, Australia and you come out at 32.93 degrees north, 28.22 degrees west. That point is in the North Atlantic Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Funchal, Portugal, 1,056 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 8:12 pm on Saturday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 32.93 degrees south becomes 32.93 degrees north, and 151.78 degrees east becomes 28.22 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Newcastle is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-2, roughly twelve hours from Newcastle, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Newcastle
Today the sun rises in Newcastle at 5:36 am and sets at 5:52 pm, giving 12 hours 16 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 Newcastle.
Weather in Newcastle right now
19°C (66°F), cloudy
| Conditions | Cloudy |
|---|---|
| Wind | 50 km/h (31 mph) from the S, a strong breeze |
| Humidity | 78% |
| Cloud cover | 100% |
| Pressure | 1027 hPa |
| Rain in the next hour | none forecast |
Reading taken 4 hours ago, local time 1 AM in Newcastle.
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Hourly forecast for Newcastle
The next 23 hours, in Newcastle local time. Temperatures are given in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
- 5 AM 18°C 64°F Cloudy 36 km/h
- 6 AM 18°C 64°F Cloudy 35 km/h
- 7 AM 18°C 64°F Light rain 36 km/h 0.2 mm
- 8 AM 17°C 63°F Light rain 32 km/h 0.2 mm
- 9 AM 18°C 64°F Light rain 30 km/h 0.1 mm
- 10 AM 18°C 64°F Cloudy 35 km/h
- 11 AM 18°C 65°F Cloudy 31 km/h
- 12 PM 19°C 66°F Cloudy 28 km/h
- 1 PM 19°C 67°F Partly cloudy 22 km/h
- 2 PM 19°C 66°F Rain 38 km/h 0.3 mm
- 3 PM 17°C 63°F Rain 46 km/h 0.9 mm
- 4 PM 16°C 62°F Rain 41 km/h 0.4 mm
- 5 PM 16°C 61°F Light rain 37 km/h 0.2 mm
- 6 PM 16°C 61°F Rain 35 km/h 0.4 mm
- 7 PM 16°C 61°F Rain 33 km/h 0.6 mm
- 8 PM 16°C 60°F Rain 33 km/h 0.3 mm
- 9 PM 16°C 60°F Rain 32 km/h 0.5 mm
- 10 PM 15°C 60°F Rain 28 km/h 0.5 mm
- 11 PM 15°C 60°F Rain 30 km/h 0.6 mm
- 12 AM 15°C 59°F Rain 29 km/h 0.6 mm
- 1 AM 15°C 59°F Rain 30 km/h 0.7 mm
- 2 AM 15°C 59°F Rain 35 km/h 0.3 mm
- 3 AM 15°C 59°F Rain 32 km/h 0.3 mm
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
7-day forecast for Newcastle
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 27 Sep | 19°C / 67°F | 15°C / 60°F | Cloudy | 5.3 mm |
| Mon 28 Sep | 17°C / 63°F | 15°C / 59°F | Light rain | 2.5 mm |
| Tue 29 Sep | 20°C / 68°F | 12°C / 54°F | Fair | 0 mm |
| Wed 30 Sep | 23°C / 73°F | 12°C / 54°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Thu 1 Oct | 26°C / 79°F | 14°C / 58°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Fri 2 Oct | 27°C / 80°F | 17°C / 62°F | Rain showers | 6.5 mm |
| Sat 3 Oct | 20°C / 68°F | 16°C / 61°F | Rain showers | 8.9 mm |
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Sun and moon in Newcastle today
The sun is up in Newcastle for 12 hours 16 minutes today, from 5:36 am to 5:52 pm. The moon sets in Newcastle at 5:31 am and comes up again at 6:31 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.
| Sun | Time in Newcastle |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 4:14 am |
| Nautical dawn | 4:43 am |
| Civil dawn | 5:12 am |
| Sunrise | 5:36 am |
| Solar noon | 11:44 am |
| Sunset | 5:52 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:17 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 6:46 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:15 pm |
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.
| Light band | Time in Newcastle | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 5:12 am to 5:21 am | 0h 10m |
| Morning golden hour | 5:21 am to 6:09 am | 0h 48m |
| Evening golden hour | 5:20 pm to 6:07 pm | 0h 48m |
| Evening blue hour | 6:07 pm to 6:17 pm | 0h 10m |
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.
| Moon | Reading in Newcastle |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:31 pm |
| Moonset | 5:31 am |
| Phase | waning gibbous, waning |
| Illumination | 100% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 15.9 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 378,000 km |
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.
Meeting planner: Newcastle and four other places
Every hour of Sunday, September 27, 2026 in Newcastle, Australia, read across 4 other places. Columns are Newcastle local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
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| Newcastle local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NewcastleAEST UTC+10 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPDT UTC-7 | 7-1 | 8-1 | 9-1 | 10-1 | 11-1 | 12-1 | 13-1 | 14-1 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 10-1 | 11-1 | 12-1 | 13-1 | 14-1 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| LondonBST UTC+1 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 19:30-1 | 20:30-1 | 21:30-1 | 22:30-1 | 23:30-1 | 0:30 | 1:30 | 2:30 | 3:30 | 4:30 | 5:30 | 6:30 | 7:30 | 8:30 | 9:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 |
No hour on Sunday, September 27, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Newcastle and Los Angeles are 17 hours apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 2 of 5: from 12:00 am in Newcastle it is working hours in New York and London, but outside them in Newcastle, Los Angeles and Delhi. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Newcastle
Seven days from September 27, 2026, computed for Newcastle, Australia at 32.93 degrees south, 151.78 degrees east, on the clock of Australia/Sydney. 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.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday September 27 | 4:14 am | 5:36 am | 11:44 am | 3:13 pm | 5:52 pm | 7:10 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 4:12 am | 5:35 am | 11:44 am | 3:13 pm | 5:53 pm | 7:11 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 4:11 am | 5:34 am | 11:43 am | 3:14 pm | 5:54 pm | 7:12 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 4:09 am | 5:32 am | 11:43 am | 3:14 pm | 5:54 pm | 7:13 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 4:08 am | 5:31 am | 11:43 am | 3:14 pm | 5:55 pm | 7:13 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 4:06 am | 5:30 am | 11:42 am | 3:14 pm | 5:56 pm | 7:14 pm |
| Saturday October 3 | 4:05 am | 5:28 am | 11:42 am | 3:14 pm | 5:56 pm | 7:15 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Newcastle, 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 Newcastle
From Newcastle, Australia the qibla is 277.7 degrees on a true compass, which is west, or 7.7 degrees south of due west. The Kaaba is 13,275 km away, 8,249 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Newcastle, 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 Newcastle, 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.
Put a Newcastle clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Newcastle, Australia, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Australia/Sydney from the time zone database, so it stays right when Newcastle changes its clocks, and it shows AEST to every visitor wherever they are reading from. It is a plain iframe: no account, no script to install, nothing to pay.
The box needs 183 pixels of height for these settings, which is what the code above sets, and the numbers show at full size from 305 pixels of width up. Narrower than that they scale down rather than wrapping, and turning a line off makes the box shorter. The code updates with either.
Newcastle time now: common questions
- What time is it in Newcastle, Australia right now?
- 5:12 am on Sunday September 27, 2026. Newcastle runs on AEST, UTC+10.
- What time zone is Newcastle in?
- Australia/Sydney, currently AEST at UTC+10. 5 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Newcastle?
- UTC+10 at this instant. It alternates between UTC+10 and UTC+11 across the year.
- Does Newcastle observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. The next change is October 4, 2026, when the clocks go forward.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Newcastle of New York?
- Newcastle is 14 hours ahead of New York, where it is 3:12 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Newcastle today?
- 5:52 pm, after a sunrise at 5:36 am and 12 hours 16 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Newcastle?
- 32.93 degrees north, 28.22 degrees west, in the North Atlantic Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Newcastle from London?
- There is no shared working hour: London is 9 hours behind of Newcastle, which puts the two working days apart.
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