It is 6:46 pm in Australia/Perth
Australia/Perth is the IANA identifier for the time zone of Perth in Australia. It is running at UTC+8 right now, abbreviated AWST, and the local date is Friday, September 25, 2026. The zone never moves its clocks.
What time is it in Australia/Perth right now
6:46 pm on Friday, September 25, 2026, as this page was served, which in 24 hour form is 18:46. The clock above ticks on from there in your own browser. The offset is a whole 8 hours ahead of UTC, so a UTC timestamp converts here by changing the hour and leaving the minutes exactly as they are.
14 other zones read UTC+8 at this instant. They are interchangeable as a clock reading today and not as an identifier: storing UTC+8 instead of Australia/Perth throws away the rule that decides what they all do at the next transition.
The UTC offset of Australia/Perth
An offset of UTC+8 names the meridian 120.0 degrees east. Perth, Australia actually sits at 115.86 degrees east, which is 4.1 degrees west of it, so the sun there runs about 17 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+8 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/Perth
Australia/Perth does not observe daylight saving. It sits at UTC+8 in January and reads UTC+8 again in July, so a gap worked out against it today is still right in six months. It did move them once: the sampling below shows a summer offset as late as 2009, and the practice has since been dropped.
The database holds no clock change for Australia/Perth 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/Perth 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 9 distinct eras in that time and has used 2 different offsets: UTC+8, UTC+9. Its current behaviour has held since 2010. 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 1974 | UTC+8 | UTC+8 | one offset all year |
| 1975 | UTC+9 | UTC+8 | clocks moved, 1 hour apart |
| 1976 to 1983 | UTC+8 | UTC+8 | one offset all year |
| 1984 | UTC+9 | UTC+8 | clocks moved, 1 hour apart |
| 1985 to 1991 | UTC+8 | UTC+8 | one offset all year |
| 1992 | UTC+9 | UTC+8 | clocks moved, 1 hour apart |
| 1993 to 2006 | UTC+8 | UTC+8 | one offset all year |
| 2007 to 2009 | UTC+9 | UTC+8 | clocks moved, 1 hour apart |
| 2010 to 2026 | UTC+8 | UTC+8 | one offset all year |
The last summer in which Australia/Perth read a different offset from its own January was 2009. Software that still carries a hand-written summer rule for this zone has been wrong every year since.
Countries and regions that use Australia/Perth
One country uses Australia/Perth: Australia, which keeps 12 zones in total and has a population of about 26,640,000.
Cities in the Australia/Perth time zone
The 2 cities this site covers inside Australia/Perth, 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.
| City | Where | Time now | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mandurah | Australia | 6:46 pm | 6:03 am | 6:15 pm | 12h 12m |
| Perth | Australia | 6:46 pm | 6:03 am | 6:15 pm | 12h 12m |
The sun against the clock in Australia/Perth
Worked out for Perth, Australia, the city this site covers inside the zone, at 31.95 degrees south, 115.86 degrees east. The sun rises at 6:03 am and sets at 6:15 pm, giving 12 hours 12 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the moment the sun is highest, falls at 12:08 pm, which is 8 minutes after clock noon.
That gap is the whole argument about where zone lines belong, in one number. It is made of three things: Perth, Australia sitting 4.1 degrees west of the UTC+8 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 Perth.
Convert Australia/Perth to another time zone
Australia/Perth is one of the zones the converter publishes under its own name, as AWST, so these pages convert it directly rather than by matching an offset.
Questions about Australia/Perth
- What time is it in Australia/Perth right now?
- 6:46 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/Perth?
- UTC+8 at this instant, on every day of the year.
- Does Australia/Perth observe daylight saving time?
- No. It stays at UTC+8 all year, and has done since 2010.
- What is the abbreviation for Australia/Perth?
- AWST at this instant. It does not change, because the offset does not.
- Which countries use Australia/Perth?
- Australia.
- Why store Australia/Perth instead of UTC+8?
- 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 14 other zones share its current reading while carrying different rules. A record storing UTC+8 cannot tell them apart; a record storing
Australia/Perthkeeps working through every future rule change.