Melbourne
UTC+10Australia · AEST
Thu, 13 Aug 2026
Timezone Guide
Melbourne, 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. There is a 14-hour difference between Melbourne and New York. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with New York, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. There is a 9-hour difference between Melbourne and London. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with London, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. There is a 1-hour difference between Melbourne and Tokyo. 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 Melbourne lines up with 09:00–17:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Sydney. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Melbourne.
Practical Info
Melbourne (Australia) is home to roughly 5.1M people. Today brings about 9.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:24, sunset at 17:18. 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
AEST · Australia/Melbourne
Coordinates
37.82°S, 144.97°E
Currency
AUD ($)
Calling Code
+61
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
For Six Months a Year, Australia Has Five Different Times
Australia is the sixth-largest country on Earth and officially has three time zones:
- AWST — UTC+8 — Western Australia
- ACST — UTC+9:30 — South Australia and the Northern Territory
- AEST — UTC+10 — Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria and Tasmania
Look at the middle one. The central zone is half an hour offset from its neighbours, not a full hour — an unusual arrangement anywhere in the world, and it means a flight from Perth to Adelaide crosses a ninety-minute boundary.
Then daylight saving arrives, and because it is a state matter rather than a federal one, the map fractures.
From the first Sunday in October to the first Sunday in April:
- Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and the ACT go to UTC+11
- South Australia goes to UTC+10:30
- Queensland stays on UTC+10
- The Northern Territory stays on UTC+9:30
- Western Australia stays on UTC+8
Three time zones become five, including two separate half-hour offsets, inside a single country, for half the year.
The practical effect on Melbourne is that Victoria spends six months of the year an hour ahead of Brisbane despite sitting almost directly south of it, and three hours ahead of Perth instead of the usual two.
It took until 2007 for the states that do observe daylight saving to even agree on the same start and end dates. Before that, the dates varied too.
The clock: and then there is Broken Hill.
Broken Hill is a mining town in far western New South Wales. It is in New South Wales. It votes in New South Wales elections. And it keeps South Australian time — half an hour behind the rest of its own state — because its economic and transport links run west to Adelaide rather than east to Sydney.
It has its own entry in the international time zone database. A town of a few thousand people, inside a state of eight million, with its own officially recognised clock.
Australia did not design any of this. It simply let every jurisdiction answer the question separately, and this is the shape the answers made.
Sources
- timezonehelp.com ve timenowworld.com (üç dilimin beşe çıkması; AEDT/ACDT/AWST offsetleri; 2026 tarihleri)
- worlddata.info, *Time zones and daylight saving time in Australia* (ACST'nin yarım saatlik konumu; Broken Hill'in ayrı kayıt olarak listelenmesi)
- NSW Parliament Education (2007 tarihli Standard Time Amendment (Daylight Saving) Act ile tarihlerin senkronize edilmesi)
- IANA saat dilimi veritabanı, `Australia/Broken_Hill` girdisi
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
2h overlap