Current time in Adelaide

Time zone in Adelaide

Adelaide is in South Australia, Australia and uses the Australia/Adelaide time zone. Adelaide observes daylight saving time. It uses Australian Central Standard Time (UTC+09:30) in the standard-time part of the year and Australian Central Daylight Time (UTC+10:30) during summer time.

Sunrise and sunset in Adelaide

Sun and clock in Adelaide

Adelaide lies about 4° west of the meridian its time zone is built around, so the sun runs late against the clock. Averaged over the year, solar noon does not arrive until 12:16 in standard time, which makes mornings darker and evenings lighter than the clock alone would suggest. Summer time moves that an hour later still, to about 13:16.

Daylight through the year in Adelaide

At 34.9°S latitude, Adelaide sees its longest day around the December solstice, when the sun is above the horizon for about 14 h 30 m. The shortest day comes six months later at roughly 9 h 48 m, a swing of about 4 h 42 m between midsummer and midwinter.

The seasons here are clear but moderate: 4 h 42 m separates the longest day from the shortest.

Seasons are reversed south of the equator. On the December solstice, midsummer here, the sun rises in Adelaide at about 05:58 and sets at about 20:28; on the June solstice, midwinter, it rises at about 07:23 and sets at about 17:11.

How these figures are worked out

When the clocks change in Adelaide

Because Adelaide is in the southern hemisphere, its summer time runs across the new year: clocks go forward in October and back in April, the mirror image of Europe and North America.

The next two changes in Adelaide:

Of the cities compared further down this page, New York, London and Sydney do change their clocks, so their difference from Adelaide moves by an hour twice a year; Dubai, New Delhi, Singapore and Tokyo do not, so those differences never change.

Calling Adelaide from another time zone

A working day of roughly 09:00 to 17:00 in Adelaide corresponds to 23:30–07:30 UTC. To find the equivalent window where you are, add your own offset to those hours: somewhere on UTC+00:00 would be looking at 23:30–07:30.

Taking a working day as 09:00 to 17:00 in each place:

• New York has no overlap at all: when it is 09:00 there, it is already 23:30 in Adelaide, so a call means an early start or a late finish for someone.
• London has no overlap at all: when it is 09:00 there, it is already 18:30 in Adelaide, so a call means an early start or a late finish for someone.
• Tokyo’s working day overlaps with Adelaide’s for 6½ hours, from 10:30 to 17:00 Adelaide time.

These windows use the offsets in force on 2026-10-09; where one side observes daylight saving and the other does not, they move by an hour twice a year.

Time difference from your location

Adelaide compared with other cities

• Adelaide → New York
• Adelaide → London
• Adelaide → Dubai
• Adelaide → New Delhi
• Adelaide → Singapore
• Adelaide → Tokyo
• Adelaide → Sydney

Nearby cities

Adelaide is the only place in this directory on Australia/Adelaide; the nearby cities listed below all keep different zones. The nearest listed city on a different zone is Melbourne, about 650 km away on Australia/Melbourne, currently 30 min ahead of Adelaide.

• Melbourne
• Sydney
• Brisbane
• Perth
• Auckland
• Wellington
• Denpasar (Bali)
• Suva

Time zone rules: IANA tz database release 2026c, applied when this page was generated on 2026-10-09. Sun times: NOAA solar equations for 34.93°S, 138.60°E, flat horizon at sea level.

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