Current time · New South Wales · Australia

Current time in Sydney

Time zone
Australia/Sydney
UTC offset
UTC+11
Name
Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT)
Daylight saving 2026
yes

Clock changes in 2026

  • April 5, 3:00 AM → 2:00 AM: clocks go back 1 h (UTC+11 → UTC+10)
  • October 4, 2:00 AM → 3:00 AM: clocks go forward 1 h (UTC+10 → UTC+11)

Next change: April 4, 2027 – clocks go back 1 h (UTC+10).

Sun today

Sunrise
5:53 AM
Sunset
7:23 PM
Day length
13 h 29 min
Solar noon
12:38 PM

Civil dawn and dusk: 5:27 AM and 7:50 PM. Computed from the city’s coordinates (-33.87, 151.21).

Time difference: Sydney and other cities

CityNowDifference
London −11 11 h behind
New York −16 16 h behind
Los Angeles −19 19 h behind
Chicago −17 17 h behind
San Francisco −19 19 h behind
Toronto −16 16 h behind
Mexico City −17 17 h behind
São Paulo −14 14 h behind
Buenos Aires −14 14 h behind
Paris −10 10 h behind
Berlin −10 10 h behind
Amsterdam −10 10 h behind
Madrid −10 10 h behind
Rome −10 10 h behind
Warsaw −10 10 h behind
Kyiv −9 9 h behind
Moscow −8 8 h behind
Istanbul −8 8 h behind
Cairo −9 9 h behind
Lagos −10 10 h behind
Johannesburg −9 9 h behind
Nairobi −8 8 h behind
Dubai −7 7 h behind
Mumbai −5:30 5 h 30 min behind
New Delhi −5:30 5 h 30 min behind
Bangkok −4 4 h behind
Jakarta −4 4 h behind
Singapore −3 3 h behind
Hong Kong −3 3 h behind
Beijing −3 3 h behind
Shanghai −3 3 h behind
Seoul −2 2 h behind
Tokyo −2 2 h behind
Auckland +2 2 h ahead
Honolulu −21 21 h behind

Plus – it is later there than here, minus – earlier. Plan a meeting with this city

Nearby cities

Same time zone: Australia/Sydney

In short

Sydney is in the Australia/Sydney time zone of the IANA database. The current offset is UTC+11. Clocks here are 11 h ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). In 2026 the clocks change: standard time is UTC+10 and daylight saving time is UTC+11. Population: about 5,638,830 (GeoNames).