What time is it in Australia right now? 🇦🇺

It is 11:29 pm in Canberra right now, Friday, September 25, 2026. Australia runs on AEST at UTC+10, and on 11 further zones besides. Every reading on this page is computed from the IANA time zone database at the moment you loaded it, and the clocks above and below tick on from there.

Time in Australia now

Australia spans 5 different clock readings across 12 IANA zones, 2 hours 30 minutes apart from end to end. When it is 9:29 pm in Perth it is already 11:59 pm in Lord Howe, so "the time in Australia" is a question that needs a region attached to it.

The offset from UTC in Canberra is UTC+10, which is 10 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Nine in the morning in Canberra is 11:00 pm UTC.

Australia time zones in full

Each row is a zone identifier from the IANA database, its reading at this instant, its offset from UTC and whether it is currently on standard or summer time. They do not all agree: the spread across Australia is 2 hours 30 minutes.

Does Australia have daylight saving time?

Australia does observe daylight saving, in 7 of its 12 zones. The next change is on October 4, 2026, when the clocks go forward and UTC+10:30 becomes UTC+11. Until then the offset here is UTC+10.

Because the clocks move, the gap between Australia and anywhere that does not move its own is not a constant. It shifts by an hour twice a year, and a difference memorised in one season is wrong in the other. That is the single most common source of a missed call into Australia.

Where Australia is on the map

The marker is on Canberra, the point every sun reading and every call window on this page is worked out from.

Time difference between Canberra and major cities

Worked out at this instant rather than from a stored table, so daylight saving on either side is already in it.

Best time to call Australia

A nine to five working day in Canberra against a nine to five day elsewhere. The overlap column is the stretch when both desks are open, given on each side's own clock.

Daylight hours in Canberra today

In Canberra the sun rose at 5:49 am today and sets at 6:02 pm, giving 12 hours 13 minutes of daylight. The capital is gaining 2 minutes 12 seconds of daylight a day at the moment, and the sun stands highest at 11:55 am.

Solar noon in Canberra is 11:55 am, which is 5 minutes before clock noon. That gap is the capital sitting at 149.13 degrees east while its clock is set to Australia/Sydney, plus the equation of time, which today runs 8.2 minutes ahead of mean time, plus an hour of daylight saving for part of the year.

Moon phase over Canberra tonight

The moon is full moon tonight, 14.4 days into the current lunation, with roughly 100 percent of the disc lit. The next full moon falls on September 27, 2026 as Australia reads the date, at 2:48 am local. The moon phase page has the full cycle.

Current time in Australia cities

The 22 cities this site covers inside Australia, alphabetically, each with its own ticking clock and its own sunrise page.

Every IANA time zone in Australia

These are the identifiers a computer uses. A program that stores Australia/Sydney rather than UTC+10 keeps working through every future rule change, which is the whole reason the database is keyed this way.

Convert Australia time to another zone

The converter pages below take AEST against the zones people most often measure it from. Each one carries a full conversion table rather than a single answer.

Information about Australia

Australia sits in Oceania, carries the ISO country code AU and a population of about 26,640,000. Its capital Canberra is at 35.28 degrees south, 149.13 degrees east, which is the coordinate every sunrise and solar noon on this page is computed from.

Upcoming dates in Australia

Read on Australia's own clock, so the day counts below start from September 25 and not from a UTC date. The list is the internationally observed calendar plus the dates common across Oceania, along with this country's own clock changes and the next solstices and equinoxes. National days set by a country's own statute are not included, because this site carries no statute table and a guessed one would be worse than an honest gap.

Sun and moon in Canberra today

The sun is up in Canberra for 12 hours 13 minutes today, from 5:49 am to 6:02 pm. The moon sets in Canberra at 4:49 am and comes up again at 4:35 pm. The next phase is the full moon on September 27, 2026. It is 97% lit at the moment, a waxing gibbous, filling out by about 3.6 percentage points a day.

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 Canberra

Seven days from September 25, 2026, computed for Canberra at 35.28 degrees south, 149.13 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.

Dhuhr is solar noon at Canberra, 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 Canberra

From Canberra the qibla is 277.8 degrees on a true compass, which is west, or 7.8 degrees south of due west. The Kaaba is 13,068 km away, 8,120 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Canberra 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 Canberra 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.

Questions about the time in Australia

What time is it in Australia right now?

It is 11:29 pm in Canberra as this page was served, Friday, September 25, 2026. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.

What time zone is Australia in?

Australia uses 12 zones, from UTC+8 to UTC+10:30. The capital Canberra is on Australia/Sydney at UTC+10.

What is the UTC offset in Australia?

UTC+10 in Canberra at this instant, and between UTC+8 and UTC+10:30 across the whole country.

Does Australia observe daylight saving time?

Yes, in some zones. The next change is October 4, 2026.

What time does the sun set in Canberra today?

6:02 pm, after a sunrise at 5:49 am and 12 hours 13 minutes of daylight.

When is the best time to call Australia from the United States?

The working days do not overlap: Canberra is 14 hours ahead of New York, so one side has to take the call outside office hours.

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