Australian Eastern Time

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Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Hobart keep AEST, UTC+10 in winter and AEDT, UTC+11 in summer. The clocks go forward one hour in October and back in April. The clock above shows Sydney time now, live, with seconds.

Updated 8 October 2026 · Time zone data 2026e · Sources

Time in Sydney, Australia at a glance

Time zone: Australian Eastern Time (AEST)
Standard time: AEST, UTC+10
Daylight saving time: AEDT, UTC+11
Used in: Australia

Time zone names for developers

IANA time zone identifier: Australia/Sydney

Places on Australian Eastern Time

Three states and one territory share Sydney's clock in every season. They change their clocks on the same nights. Queensland matches them in winter only. Two places inside New South Wales, Broken Hill and Lord Howe Island, set their clocks differently.

Place	Where	Clock changes
New South Wales	All but Broken Hill and Lord Howe Island
Victoria	The whole of it
Tasmania	The whole of it
Australian Capital Territory	The whole of it

When the clocks change in Sydney, Australia

Clocks in Sydney change twice a year.

On Sunday 4 October 2026 at 2:00 AM, clocks went forward one hour, to AEDT.
On Sunday 4 April 2027 at 3:00 AM, clocks go back one hour, to AEST.
On Sunday 3 October 2027 at 2:00 AM, clocks go forward one hour, to AEDT.

Daylight saving dates around the world

How many hours ahead or behind Sydney

On 25 October 2026, London is 11 hours behind Sydney.

City	Difference from Sydney
London	11 hours behind
New York	15 hours behind
Los Angeles	18 hours behind
Singapore	3 hours behind
Tokyo	2 hours behind
Kolkata	5 hours 30 minutes behind
Auckland	2 hours ahead
Perth	3 hours behind
Your time zone	Detected after this page loads

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Where the eastern clock differs

Queensland stays on standard time: AESTin Brisbane and the Gold Coast in every month; Queensland keeps AEST, UTC+10 through the year and does not change its clocks. Brisbane and the Gold Coast match Sydney in winter only. While Sydney keeps summer time, they sit one hour behind it. Queensland's last daylight saving trial ran for three summers. The tz database records that it was dropped after a referendum. The state government later decided against another trial or referendum.; Sources Queensland Government, Ministerial statement on daylight saving, NSW Communities and Justice, Definitions of time and how time is regulated, Tourism Australia, Australian time zones, IANA time zone database, Australasia zones file
Lord Howe Island moves by half an hour: LHSTon Lord Howe Island in winter, half an hour ahead of Sydney; Lord Howe Island lies off the New South Wales coast. Its standard time is Lord Howe Standard Time, LHST, UTC+10:30. In winter that puts the island half an hour ahead of Sydney. In spring its clocks go forward only thirty minutes, to LHDT, UTC+11. So through the summer the island and Sydney show the same time.; Sources NSW Communities and Justice, Definitions of time and how time is regulated, NSW Communities and Justice, Daylight saving, IANA time zone database, Australasia zones file
Broken Hill keeps Central time: ACSTin Broken Hill, half an hour behind Sydney in every season; Broken Hill lies on the New South Wales side of the South Australian border. It keeps Australian Central Standard Time, ACST, UTC+9:30, the same as Adelaide. The tz database notes that most of its business and social dealings are with Central time zones. Its clocks change on the same nights as Sydney's, to ACDT, UTC+10:30 in summer. So the town stays half an hour behind Sydney in every season.; Sources NSW Communities and Justice, Definitions of time and how time is regulated, IANA time zone database, Australasia zones file
Clocks go forward in October: Octoberthe month Sydney's clocks go forward, in the southern spring; Sydney's clocks go forward one hour on the first Sunday in October, in the southern spring. They go back on the first Sunday in April, in autumn. London, New York and Los Angeles do the reverse. Their clocks go forward in March and back in October or November.; Sources NSW Communities and Justice, Daylight saving, Tourism Australia, Australian time zones, ACT Legislation Register, Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972

Questions about Australian Eastern Time

What time is it in Sydney now?

Sydney's local time runs on the clock that opens this page, seconds included. Sydney keeps AEST, UTC+10 in winter and AEDT, UTC+11 in summer. The clock moves between the two on the change nights, with nothing for you to set. Canberra, Melbourne and Hobart read the same as Sydney in every season.

What do AEST and AEDT stand for?

AEST is short for Australian Eastern Standard Time, the time Sydney keeps in winter. AEDT is short for Australian Eastern Daylight Time, one hour later. Sydney uses the daylight code from the first Sunday in October to the first Sunday in April. Queensland uses only AEST, because it does not change its clocks.

What is the time difference between Sydney and India?

Sydney is 4 hours 30 minutes ahead of India in the Sydney winter. The gap grows by one hour in the Sydney summer, because India does not change its clocks. Tokyo and Singapore also keep one time through the year. So their gaps to Sydney widen in the Sydney summer too.

Sources

We checked each fact on this page against these sources on 8 October 2026. Times, offsets and clock changes come from the time zone database.