It is 8:46 pm in Australia/Melbourne

Australia/Melbourne is the IANA identifier for the time zone of Melbourne in Australia. It is running at UTC+10 right now, with no letter abbreviation in common use, and the local date is Friday, September 25, 2026. The zone is on its standard offset at the moment.

What time is it in Australia/Melbourne right now

8:46 pm on Friday, September 25, 2026, as this page was served, which in 24 hour form is 20:46. The clock above ticks on from there in your own browser. The offset is a whole 10 hours ahead of UTC, so a UTC timestamp converts here by changing the hour and leaving the minutes exactly as they are.

12 other zones read UTC+10 at this instant. They are interchangeable as a clock reading today and not as an identifier: storing UTC+10 instead of Australia/Melbourne throws away the rule that decides what they all do at the next transition.

The UTC offset of Australia/Melbourne

An offset of UTC+10 names the meridian 150.0 degrees east. Melbourne, Australia actually sits at 144.96 degrees east, which is 5.0 degrees west of it, so the sun there runs about 20 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 moves its clocks, UTC+10 is only today's answer. It runs at UTC+10 for the winter part of the year and UTC+11 for the summer part, a difference of 1 hour, and any gap memorised against it is wrong for part of the year.

Daylight saving in Australia/Melbourne

Australia/Melbourne does observe daylight saving. The next change is on October 4, 2026: at 1:00 am local the clocks go forward, and UTC+10 becomes UTC+11. That hour is skipped and never appears on the clock at all, which is why a wall clock time in this zone is not always a single instant.

Every clock change the database has for this zone in 2025, 2026 and 2027, with the exact local reading either side of the jump.

How the offset of Australia/Melbourne 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. The zone has passed through 2 distinct eras in that time and has used 2 different offsets: UTC+10, UTC+11. Its current behaviour has held since 1972. 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.

The earliest summer shift this sampling sees here is 1972, and the zone has kept moving its clocks since. The dates the change falls on have moved several times even where the rule has not.

Countries and regions that use Australia/Melbourne

One country uses Australia/Melbourne: Australia, which keeps 12 zones in total and has a population of about 26,640,000.

Cities in the Australia/Melbourne time zone

The 5 cities this site covers inside Australia/Melbourne, each with a live clock and today's sunrise and sunset worked out from its own coordinate. They share an identifier, so they share a clock reading to the minute, and they do not share a sunrise: that is set by latitude and longitude.

The sun against the clock in Australia/Melbourne

Worked out for Melbourne, Australia, the city this site covers inside the zone, at 37.81 degrees south, 144.96 degrees east. The sun rises at 6:06 am and sets at 6:19 pm, giving 12 hours 13 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the moment the sun is highest, falls at 12:12 pm, which is 12 minutes after clock noon.

That gap is the whole argument about where zone lines belong, in one number. It is made of three things: Melbourne, Australia sitting 5.0 degrees west of the UTC+10 meridian, the equation of time, which today runs 8.2 minutes ahead of mean time, and the hour of daylight saving this zone adds in summer. Full sunrise and sunset times for Melbourne.

Convert Australia/Melbourne to another time zone

The converter is keyed on the abbreviations people type rather than on identifiers. Australia/Melbourne is at UTC+10 right now, the same reading as AEST, 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/Melbourne

What time is it in Australia/Melbourne right now?

8:46 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/Melbourne?

UTC+10 at this instant, and it alternates between UTC+10 in winter and UTC+11 in summer.

Does Australia/Melbourne observe daylight saving time?

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

What is the abbreviation for Australia/Melbourne?

There is no English letter abbreviation in common use for this zone, so it is written as its offset, UTC+10. That is what every other clock shows for it too.

Which countries use Australia/Melbourne?

Australia.

Why store Australia/Melbourne instead of UTC+10?

Because the offset is an output and the identifier is the input. This zone alone has two offsets in a year, and 12 other zones share its current reading while carrying different rules. A record storing UTC+10 cannot tell them apart; a record storing Australia/Melbourne keeps working through every future rule change.

Other time zones in Australia

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