Current time in Sydney
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, keeps Australian Eastern Standard Time: UTC+10:00 in winter and UTC+11:00 in summer.
Current time in Sydney
02:22:02
Australia/Sydney · UTC+11:00
Time zone in Sydney
Sunrise and sunset in Sydney
Sun and clock in Sydney
Averaged over the year, solar noon in Sydney falls at 11:55: the city sits almost on the meridian its clock is set to.
Daylight through the year in Sydney
The latest sunrise of the year, 07:09 on April 3, comes on the last morning before the clocks go back, so it is darker than any midwinter morning.
Cape Town (33.9°S) and Santiago (33.4°S) lie on almost the same parallel as Sydney, so their days stay within 2 minutes of Sydney’s all year; the clock in Cape Town is 8 h or 9 h behind Sydney, depending on the date, and in Santiago 14 h behind Sydney for most of the year and 13 h behind Sydney for part of it.
| Date | Sunrise | Sunset | Day length |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 15 | 05:43 | 19:36 | 13 h 53 m |
| December 15 | 05:39 | 20:02 | 14 h 23 m |
| January 15 | 06:00 | 20:09 | 14 h 9 m |
| February 15 | 06:30 | 19:48 | 13 h 18 m |
| March 15 | 06:54 | 19:14 | 12 h 19 m |
| April 15 | 06:18 | 17:33 | 11 h 15 m |
| May 15 | 06:40 | 17:03 | 10 h 23 m |
| June 15 | 06:58 | 16:53 | 9 h 55 m |
| July 15 | 06:58 | 17:04 | 10 h 6 m |
| August 15 | 06:34 | 17:25 | 10 h 51 m |
| September 15 | 05:55 | 17:46 | 11 h 52 m |
| October 15 | 06:14 | 19:08 | 12 h 54 m |
When the clocks change in Sydney
Because Sydney 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.
These dates have applied since 2008. In 2007 the clocks went forward on October 28 and back on March 25. The first time the record has Sydney’s clocks put forward and later back again is 1917. The record opens with Sydney’s own local mean time, UTC+10:04:52, kept until 1895.
| Date | Change | New offset |
|---|---|---|
| April 4, 2027 | Back one hour: 03:00 becomes 02:00 | UTC+10:00 |
| October 3, 2027 | Forward one hour: 02:00 becomes 03:00 | UTC+11:00 |
Calling Sydney from another time zone
| Place | Sydney’s 09:00–17:00 there | Shared working hours | Over the next 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTC | 22:00–06:00 (previous day) | — | — |
| New York | 17:00–01:00 (previous day) | none | none all year |
| London | 22:00–06:00 (previous day) | none | none all year |
| Tokyo | 07:00–15:00 | 6 h, 11:00–17:00 Sydney time | 6 h to 7 h |
At 09:00 on Monday, November 9, 2026 in Sydney, 57 listed cities, including Lagos and São Paulo, are still on Sunday. At 17:00 on Friday in Sydney, no other city in this directory has reached Saturday yet.
Sydney compared with other cities
| City | Local time | Date | UTC offset | Difference from Sydney | Over the next 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | — | — | UTC-05:00 | 16 h behind | 16 h behind / 15 h behind / 14 h behind |
| London | — | — | UTC+00:00 | 11 h behind | 11 h behind / 10 h behind / 9 h behind |
| Dubai | — | — | UTC+04:00 | 7 h behind | 7 h behind / 6 h behind |
| New Delhi | — | — | UTC+05:30 | 5 h 30 min behind | 5 h 30 min behind / 4 h 30 min behind |
| Singapore | — | — | UTC+08:00 | 3 h behind | 3 h behind / 2 h behind |
| Tokyo | — | — | UTC+09:00 | 2 h behind | 2 h behind / 1 h behind |
| Los Angeles | — | — | UTC-08:00 | 19 h behind | 19 h behind / 18 h behind / 17 h behind |
Nearby cities
| City | Distance | Clock | Solar noon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melbourne | 710 km south-west | same clock | 25 minutes later |
| Brisbane | 730 km north | 1 h behind / the same | 7 minutes earlier |
| Adelaide | 1,160 km west | 30 min behind | 50 minutes later |
| Auckland | 2,160 km east | 2 h ahead / 3 h ahead | 1 h 34 min earlier |
| Wellington | 2,230 km south-east | 2 h ahead / 3 h ahead | 1 h 34 min earlier |
| Suva | 3,220 km north-east | 1 h ahead / 2 h ahead | 1 h 49 min earlier |
| Perth | 3,290 km west | 3 h behind / 2 h behind | 2 h 21 min later |
| Denpasar (Bali) | 4,620 km north-west | 3 h behind / 2 h behind | 2 h 24 min later |
Beyond Sydney’s own identifier, the nearest city in this directory on exactly the same clock is Melbourne, 710 km to the south-west, on Australia/Melbourne.
Time zone rules: IANA tz database release 2026c, applied when this page was generated on 2026-11-02.
Frequently asked questions
What time zone is Sydney in?
Sydney keeps Australia/Sydney, Australian Eastern Standard Time, at UTC+10:00, moving to Australian Eastern Daylight Time (UTC+11:00) during summer time. The identifier is named after Sydney itself.
Is all of Australia on the same time as Sydney?
No. The tz database entries for Australia keep 5 different standard times, from UTC+08:00 (Perth) to UTC+10:30 (Lord Howe Time). Sydney keeps one in between, with 3 lower and 1 higher.
Which other countries keep exactly the same time as Sydney?
None: no entry in the tz database outside Sydney’s own country shows its time on every date of the next twelve months. Within Australia, 3 other tz database entries match it too.
What is the time difference between Sydney and Brisbane?
The clock in Brisbane, Australia, about 730 km away and the closest city in this directory on a different clock, is 1 h behind Sydney or the same as Sydney’s, depending on the date.