Current time in Melbourne

Time zone in Melbourne

Melbourne is in Victoria, Australia and uses the Australia/Melbourne time zone. Melbourne observes daylight saving time. It uses Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10:00) in the standard-time part of the year and Australian Eastern Daylight Time (UTC+11:00) during summer time.

Sunrise and sunset in Melbourne

Sun and clock in Melbourne

Melbourne lies about 5° 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 12:20 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 13:20.

Daylight through the year in Melbourne

At 37.8°S latitude, Melbourne sees its longest day around the December solstice, when the sun is above the horizon for about 14 h 47 m. The shortest day comes six months later at roughly 9 h 32 m, a swing of about 5 h 15 m between midsummer and midwinter.

Mid-latitude cities like Melbourne get the full seasonal cycle, with the longest and shortest days 5 h 15 m apart.

Seasons are reversed south of the equator. On the December solstice, midsummer here, the sun rises in Melbourne at about 05:54 and sets at about 20:41; on the June solstice, midwinter, it rises at about 07:35 and sets at about 17:08.

How these figures are worked out

When the clocks change in Melbourne

Because Melbourne 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 Melbourne:

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

Calling Melbourne from another time zone

A working day of roughly 09:00 to 17:00 in Melbourne corresponds to 23:00–07:00 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 23:00–07:00.

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 00:00 in Melbourne, 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 19:00 in Melbourne, so a call means an early start or a late finish for someone.
• Tokyo’s working day overlaps with Melbourne’s for 6 hours, from 11:00 to 17:00 Melbourne 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

Melbourne compared with other cities

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

Nearby cities

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

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

Time zone rules: IANA tz database release 2026c, applied when this page was generated on 2026-10-09. Sun times: NOAA solar equations for 37.81°S, 144.96°E, flat horizon at sea level.

Related tools

• 🌍World Clock Track several cities at once
• 🔄Time Zone Converter Convert times from Melbourne
• ⏱Time Difference Calculator Compare Melbourne with anywhere
• 🌅Sunrise & Sunset A full month for Melbourne