Current time in Sydney
Time zone Australia/Sydney (Australia). See the live time and date in Sydney and how far ahead of or behind you it is; the planner finds the best hour for everyone.
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- Work hours: 9 AM to 6 PM
- Reasonable: 7 AM to 9 AM and 6 PM to 10 PM
- Night: 10 PM to 7 AM
How the time is calculated
The time is calculated from your device’s clock and your browser’s time zone rules. If your device’s clock is wrong, every city will be off by the same amount. If a country changed its rules recently, an out-of-date browser may show the wrong time.
Many places do not change their clocks during the year. Arizona, Hawaii, and India, for example, keep the same time all year.
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How to use it
- Check the starting cities: each card shows its time, its date, and how many hours it is ahead of or behind you.
- Search for another city or country in the search box and add it. Reorder the list with the arrows or by dragging.
- In the meeting planner, choose a base city, a day, and a time, and see the equivalent time in every city over a 24-hour bar.
- Look for where everyone overlaps, copy the result as text for your invitation, or share a link with the same list.
Frequently asked questions
Where does the time on the clock come from?
It is calculated from your device’s clock and the time zone rules built into your browser, without asking any server. That is why it keeps working offline once the page has loaded. If your device’s clock is wrong, every city will be off by the same amount.
Does it adjust for daylight saving time automatically?
Yes. Each city follows the rules of its own time zone, so it changes by itself on the right day. Each card shows whether the city is on daylight saving time and the date of the next change. If a country changed its rules recently, an out-of-date browser may show the wrong time.
Why doesn’t Arizona change its clocks?
Arizona (apart from the Navajo Nation) stays on UTC−7 all year and does not use daylight saving time, and neither do Hawaii and most US territories. That is why Phoenix is on the same time as Denver in winter but on the same time as Los Angeles in summer.
How do I find a good time for a meeting across several countries?
In the planner, each city has a bar for its day: dark blue is work hours (9 AM to 6 PM), light blue is reasonable (7 AM to 9 AM and 6 PM to 10 PM), and striped is night. The “Everyone overlaps” row marks the stretches where nobody is outside reasonable hours. Click the bar or use the slider to try different times.
Where is my list of cities saved?
Only in your browser, in the site’s own storage. There are no accounts and no servers. If you clear the site data or switch browsers, you go back to the starting list. To take your list somewhere else, copy the share link.
Can I add a city that is not on the list?
The list has more than 300 capitals and large cities. If yours is missing, type the name of its time zone in the search box, for example America/Indiana/Indianapolis, and it is added with the correct time.
Current time in Sydney
Sydney is in the Australia/Sydney time zone, in Australia. It is on UTC+10 during standard time and UTC+11 during daylight saving time. In everyday use the time zone is called Australian Eastern Time (AEST/AEDT). Sydney is Australia’s largest city and shares its time with Melbourne, Canberra, and Hobart. Brisbane, in Queensland, does not change its clocks, so in the Australian summer Sydney is one hour ahead of Brisbane.
Daylight saving time in Sydney
Sydney moves its clocks forward one hour on the first Sunday in October and back one hour on the first Sunday in April, switching between Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST, UTC+10) and Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT, UTC+11). Because Australia is in the southern hemisphere, its summer runs from October to April.
Time difference with other cities
Your own difference with this city is on the card above, updated live. Here is how it compares with other places people often check:
- With Melbourne: Melbourne is on the same time as Sydney all year.
- With Auckland: Auckland is usually 2 hours ahead of Sydney; for a few weeks around the clock changes the gap is 3 hours.
- With Singapore: Singapore is between 2 and 3 hours behind Sydney, depending on the time of year.
- With London: London is between 9 and 11 hours behind Sydney, depending on the time of year.
- With New York: New York is between 14 and 16 hours behind Sydney, depending on the time of year.
- With Los Angeles: Los Angeles is between 17 and 19 hours behind Sydney, depending on the time of year.
Business hours converted
On a typical day, when it is 9:00 AM in Sydney it is 9:00 AM in Melbourne, 11:00 AM in Auckland, and between 6:00 AM and 7:00 AM in Singapore; when it is 6:00 PM it is 6:00 PM in Melbourne, 8:00 PM in Auckland, and between 3:00 PM and 4:00 PM in Singapore. Sydney is among the first major cities to start each day: a Monday morning there is still Sunday night in London and Sunday evening in New York. Because the daylight saving seasons are opposite, the gap with Europe and the US changes by one or two hours in different months.
Plan a meeting
Offices in Sydney usually work from about 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Add the other cities to the meeting planner and slide through the day to see who is at work, who is up early or late, and who is asleep. When daylight saving time starts or ends, the clock recalculates everything by itself.
More time pages: time in Melbourne, time in Auckland, time in Singapore, time in London, time in New York, time in Los Angeles.
Times are calculated with your browser’s time zone rules and can change if a country changes its rules; the card above always shows today’s exact value.
Updated on September 30, 2026