| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −9h | Becomes −10h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −8h | Becomes −9h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | −6h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | −1h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | ±0h | Becomes +1h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −14h | Becomes −15h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −17h | Becomes −18h on 1 Nov |
Cairns, Australia runs on UTC+10. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+10 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Cairns and New York is 14 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with New York, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. The time difference between Cairns and London is 9 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with London, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. The time difference between Cairns and Tokyo is 1 hour. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 8 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 10:00–18:00 in Cairns lines up with 09:00–17:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Brisbane, Gold Coast, Port Moresby. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Cairns.
Cairns (Australia) is home to roughly 157K people. Today brings about 12.2 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:59, sunset at 18:13. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+10 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 17° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Australia
Capital
Canberra
Continent
Oceania
Time Zone
UTC+10 · Australia/Brisbane
Coordinates
16.92°S, 145.78°E
Currency
AUD ($)
Calling Code
+61
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Great Barrier Reef stretches roughly 2,300 kilometres and covers about 344,000 square kilometres — the largest structure built by living organisms on Earth, and visible from orbit. Cairns is its main access point.
The clock: Cairns keeps UTC+10 with no daylight saving, which is one reason Queensland voted against it: the tropics see barely any seasonal daylight variation to shift.
Cairns lies at 145.8°E. Its time zone, UTC+10, is built around the 150°E meridian. The 4.2° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 17 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:17 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+10 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 13h 8m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 11h 7m. The swing between them is 2h 1m. Inside the tropics the day length stays within a narrow band all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Cairns the sun comes up earliest on 24 November at 05:34, while the latest sunset waits until 20 January at 18:57. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Cairns that civil twilight runs about 22 minutes at the equinox.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Cairns, Australia is Australia/Brisbane with a current UTC offset of UTC+10.
Cairns has an estimated population of 157K and is located at coordinates 16.92°S, 145.78°E.
Cairns gets 13h 8m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 7m on its shortest, averaging 12h 6m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Cairns falls at about 12:17 on UTC+10 standard time, because the city sits 4.2° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Gateway to the Largest Living Structure: The Great Barrier Reef stretches roughly 2,300 kilometres and covers about 344,000 square kilometres — the largest structure built by living organisms on Earth, and visible from orbit. Cairns is its main access point.