It is 8:17 pm in Australia/Darwin
Australia/Darwin is the IANA identifier for the time zone of Darwin in Australia. It is running at UTC+9:30 right now, with no letter abbreviation in common use, and the local date is Friday, September 25, 2026. The zone never moves its clocks.
What time is it in Australia/Darwin right now
8:17 pm on Friday, September 25, 2026, as this page was served, which in 24 hour form is 20:17. The clock above ticks on from there in your own browser. The offset is 9 hours and 30 minutes ahead of UTC. Half hour offsets catch out code that stores a zone as an integer number of hours, and they are the reason a UTC timestamp converted here lands on :30 or :00 depending on where it started.
2 other zones read UTC+9:30 at this instant: Australia/Adelaide, Australia/Broken_Hill. They agree on the clock now and need not agree in six months, because each one carries its own daylight saving rule.
The UTC offset of Australia/Darwin
An offset of UTC+9:30 names the meridian 142.5 degrees east. Darwin, Australia actually sits at 130.85 degrees east, which is 11.7 degrees west of it, so the sun there runs about 47 minutes behind the clock before daylight saving is even considered. Zone boundaries are drawn by borders and by convenience, not by longitude, and this is the size of the gap that produces.
Because this zone never moves its clocks, UTC+9:30 is the answer on every day of the year. That makes it an easy zone to schedule against, with the caveat that the other end of the call may still be moving its own clocks, so the gap between the two changes even though nothing changed here.
Daylight saving in Australia/Darwin
Australia/Darwin does not observe daylight saving. It sits at UTC+9:30 in January and reads UTC+9:30 again in July, so a gap worked out against it today is still right in six months. It has not moved its clocks in any year since 1970 that this page can see.
The database holds no clock change for Australia/Darwin in 2025, 2026 or 2027, so there is no transition table to print. The offset shown at the top of this page is the offset on every date in those three years.
How the offset of Australia/Darwin has changed since 1970
Read on 1 January and 1 July of each year, which is the cheapest pair of samples that shows both the winter offset and whether the clocks moved that summer. Nothing has changed: Australia/Darwin has been on the same pair of readings for all 57 years sampled. A rule change that began and ended between July and the following January is invisible to this sampling, so the table is a shape rather than a complete edit history.
| Years | 1 January | 1 July | Behaviour |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 to 2026 | UTC+9:30 | UTC+9:30 | one offset all year |
No summer shift appears in any year sampled, so a piece of software that treats Australia/Darwin as a fixed offset happens to be right, and is right by luck rather than by design: the same assumption applied to a neighbouring zone breaks twice a year.
Countries and regions that use Australia/Darwin
One country uses Australia/Darwin: Australia, which keeps 12 zones in total and has a population of about 26,640,000.
Cities in the Australia/Darwin time zone
The one city this site covers inside Australia/Darwin, each with a live clock and today's sunrise and sunset worked out from its own coordinate. The clock reading is a property of the identifier, so it is the same anywhere else in the zone; the sunrise is not, because that is set by latitude and longitude.
| City | Where | Time now | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darwin | Australia | 8:17 pm | 6:34 am | 6:43 pm | 12h 08m |
The sun against the clock in Australia/Darwin
Worked out for Darwin, Australia, the city this site covers inside the zone, at 12.46 degrees south, 130.85 degrees east. The sun rises at 6:34 am and sets at 6:43 pm, giving 12 hours 8 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the moment the sun is highest, falls at 12:38 pm, which is 38 minutes after clock noon.
That gap is the whole argument about where zone lines belong, in one number. It is made of three things: Darwin, Australia sitting 11.7 degrees west of the UTC+9:30 meridian, the equation of time, which today runs 8.2 minutes ahead of mean time, and no daylight saving at all, because this zone does not use it. Full sunrise and sunset times for Darwin.
Convert Australia/Darwin to another time zone
The converter is keyed on the abbreviations people type rather than on identifiers. Australia/Darwin is at UTC+9:30 right now, the same reading as ACST, so these pages answer the same question for it today. They will diverge if the two zones ever adopt different daylight saving rules, which is exactly why the identifier is the thing worth storing.
Questions about Australia/Darwin
- What time is it in Australia/Darwin right now?
- 8:17 pm on Friday, September 25, 2026, as this page was served. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.
- What is the UTC offset of Australia/Darwin?
- UTC+9:30 at this instant, on every day of the year.
- Does Australia/Darwin observe daylight saving time?
- No. It stays at UTC+9:30 all year.
- What is the abbreviation for Australia/Darwin?
- There is no English letter abbreviation in common use for this zone, so it is written as its offset, UTC+9:30. That is what every other clock shows for it too.
- Which countries use Australia/Darwin?
- Australia.
- Why store Australia/Darwin instead of UTC+9:30?
- Because the offset is an output and the identifier is the input. This zone has one offset today and no guarantee of keeping it, and 2 other zones share its current reading while carrying different rules. A record storing UTC+9:30 cannot tell them apart; a record storing
Australia/Darwinkeeps working through every future rule change.