| 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 |
Geelong, 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 Geelong 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 Geelong 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 Geelong 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 Geelong lines up with 09:00–17:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Geelong.
Geelong (Australia) is home to roughly 270K people. Today brings about 12.4 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:59, sunset at 18:25. 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 38° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Australia
Capital
Canberra
Continent
Oceania
Time Zone
UTC+10 · Australia/Melbourne
Coordinates
38.15°S, 144.36°E
Currency
AUD ($)
Calling Code
+61
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Geelong handled a large share of Australia's wool exports from the 1850s, and its bluestone wool stores still line the waterfront — now converted rather than demolished. The Ford plant that defined the 20th-century city closed in 2016.
The clock: Geelong keeps UTC+10 with daylight saving. The Great Ocean Road, built by returned soldiers from 1919, starts nearby.
Geelong lies at 144.4°E. Its time zone, UTC+10, is built around the 150°E meridian. The 5.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 23 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:23 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 83 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:23.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 14h 49m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 9h 30m. The swing between them is 5h 19m. 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 Geelong the sun comes up earliest on 9 December at 05:53, while the latest sunset waits until 5 January at 20:49. 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 Geelong that civil twilight runs about 26 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 32 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 Geelong, Australia is Australia/Melbourne with a current UTC offset of UTC+10.
Geelong has an estimated population of 270K and is located at coordinates 38.15°S, 144.36°E.
Geelong gets 14h 49m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 30m on its shortest, averaging 12h 6m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Geelong falls at about 12:23 on UTC+10 standard time, because the city sits 5.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Wool Port Turned Waterfront: Geelong handled a large share of Australia's wool exports from the 1850s, and its bluestone wool stores still line the waterfront — now converted rather than demolished.