| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −9h | Becomes −10h on 3 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −8h | Becomes −9h on 3 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | −6h | Becomes −7h on 3 Oct |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | −1h | Becomes −2h on 4 Oct |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | ±0h | |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −14h | Becomes −15h on 3 Oct |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −17h | Becomes −18h on 3 Oct |
Canberra, Australia runs on UTC+10. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+10 in winter, UTC+11 in summer. Next change: 4 Oct. The time difference between Canberra 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 Canberra 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 Canberra 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 Canberra lines up with 09:00–17:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Canberra.
Canberra (Australia) is home to roughly 457K people. Today brings about 12.4 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:41, sunset at 18:05. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+10 in winter, UTC+11 in summer. Next change: 4 Oct. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 35° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Australia
Capital
Canberra 👑
Continent
Oceania
Time Zone
UTC+10 · Australia/Sydney
Coordinates
35.28°S, 149.13°E
Currency
AUD ($)
Calling Code
+61
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Canberra exists because Sydney and Melbourne could not agree which should be the capital, so in 1908 a site roughly between them was chosen. The design was won in an international competition by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin in 1912.
The clock: Canberra keeps UTC+10 and observes daylight saving, unlike Brisbane 900 km north on the same base offset.
Canberra lies at 149.1°E. Its time zone, UTC+10, is built around the 150°E meridian. The two very nearly coincide: solar noon — the moment the sun is highest — falls at about 12:03, which is as close to true solar time as a zone this wide can get. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 63 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:03.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 14h 32m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 9h 46m. The swing between them is 4h 46m. This is the latitude band where the difference between summer and winter evenings is most obvious.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Canberra the sun comes up earliest on 3 October at 05:38, while the latest sunset waits until 7 January at 20:22. 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 Canberra that civil twilight runs about 25 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 30 minutes at the solstice.
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 Canberra, Australia is Australia/Sydney with a current UTC offset of UTC+10.
Canberra has an estimated population of 457K and is located at coordinates 35.28°S, 149.13°E. It is the capital city of Australia.
Canberra gets 14h 32m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 46m on its shortest, averaging 12h 6m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Canberra falls at about 12:03 on UTC+10 standard time, because the city sits 0.9° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Capital Chosen to Settle an Argument: Canberra exists because Sydney and Melbourne could not agree which should be the capital, so in 1908 a site roughly between them was chosen.