Darwin
UTC+9:30Australien · ACST
So., 9. Aug. 2026
Zeitzonen-Info
Darwin (Australien) liegt in der Zeitzone UTC+9:30. Diese Zeitzone bleibt das ganze Jahr über konstant bei UTC+9:30 — es gibt keine Sommerzeit. Zwischen Darwin und New York besteht ein Zeitunterschied von 13.5 Stunden. Die üblichen Arbeitszeiten überschneiden sich mit New York gar nicht — Meetings erfordern also einen sehr frühen oder späten Termin auf einer Seite. Zwischen Darwin und London besteht ein Zeitunterschied von 8.5 Stunden. Bei üblichen Arbeitszeiten (9–18 Uhr) überschneiden sich die Bürozeiten mit London an etwa 0.5 Stunden pro Tag. Ein guter Zeitpunkt für ein Gespräch: 17:30–18:00 Uhr in Darwin entspricht 09:00–09:30 Uhr in London. Zwischen Darwin und Tokio besteht ein Zeitunterschied von 0.5 Stunden. Bei üblichen Arbeitszeiten (9–18 Uhr) überschneiden sich die Bürozeiten mit Tokio an etwa 8.5 Stunden pro Tag. Ein guter Zeitpunkt für ein Gespräch: 09:30–18:00 Uhr in Darwin entspricht 09:00–17:30 Uhr in Tokio. Diese Zeitzone teilen sich auch Städte wie Adelaide. Diese Zeitunterschiede zu kennen erleichtert die Planung von Anrufen oder Reisen nach Darwin.
Praktische Infos
Darwin (Australien) hat etwa 150K Einwohner. Heute gibt es rund 11.2 Stunden Tageslicht: Sonnenaufgang um 06:54, Sonnenuntergang um 18:06 Uhr. Diese Zeitzone bleibt das ganze Jahr über konstant bei UTC+9:30 — es gibt keine Sommerzeit. Die Stadt liegt auf der Südhalbkugel, etwa 12° südlich des Äquators. Es herrscht Linksverkehr.
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ACST · Australia/Darwin
Koordinaten
12.46°S, 130.85°E
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Ländervorwahl
+61
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Englisch
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Six Per Cent of the Houses Were Left Standing
Cyclone Tracy crossed Darwin in the early hours of Christmas Day 1974. Wind speeds were officially recorded at 217 km/h before the Bureau of Meteorology's anemometer was destroyed.
The numbers afterwards are hard to take in.
More than 70% of Darwin's buildings were destroyed, including 80% of its houses. Only 6% of homes were left habitable. Of a population of about 47,000, some 25,000 people were left homeless and 35,362 were evacuated in the following week — the largest peacetime evacuation in Australian history. One Boeing 747 flight out of Darwin carried 674 people.
Sixty-six people were killed. Power, water, sewerage and communications were all severed. As many as 60% of those evacuated never came back.
The rebuilding was almost as fast as the destruction. The Darwin Reconstruction Commission was established on 28 February 1975 and oversaw more than 2,500 new homes in three years. By mid-1978 Darwin had regained its pre-cyclone population.
The most important consequence was national. Tracy prompted new building codes across the whole of Australia — requirements that structures be clad against flying debris and that roofs be tied to their foundations. When Cyclone Larry hit Innisfail in 2006 and Cyclone Yasi hit Mission Beach in 2011, both stronger than Tracy, there were no fatalities.
The clock: the Northern Territory rebuilt almost everything about how it constructs a city, and has not touched its clock since 1944.
Darwin runs on UTC+9:30 — the same half-hour zone as Adelaide — and has not observed daylight saving in over eighty years.
Which produces a small oddity every October. Adelaide springs forward to UTC+10:30; Darwin does not. For half the year the two cities share a clock exactly, and for the other half they are an hour apart, without either of them having moved relative to the sun.
At 12° south, there is very little seasonal daylight to save. Darwin's shortest day and longest day differ by little more than an hour. It is the same arithmetic that keeps Bogotá, Honolulu and Queensland where they are.
Quellen
- Avustralya Ulusal Arşivleri (evlerin %70'inin yıkılması, %80'i dâhil; yalnızca %6'sının oturulabilir kalması; 25.000 evsiz; 28 Şubat 1975'te komisyon; üç yılda 2.500'den fazla konut, 150 milyon doları aşan maliyet)
- Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub (217 km/s; 47.000 nüfustan 35.362 kişinin tahliyesi; 1978'de nüfusun geri kazanılması)
- Wikipedia, *Cyclone Tracy* (66 ölü; A$837 milyon hasar)
- Library & Archives NT (674 kişilik 747 seferi; tahliye edilenlerin %60'a varan kısmının dönmemesi)
- National Museum of Australia (ulusal yapı yönetmeliği değişikliği; Larry ve Yasi'de can kaybı olmaması)
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