Darwin
UTC+9:30Australie · ACST
dim. 9 août 2026
Fuseau horaire
Darwin (Australie) est dans le fuseau horaire UTC+9:30. Ce fuseau horaire reste fixe toute l'année à UTC+9:30 — l'heure d'été n'est pas appliquée. Il y a un décalage de 13.5 heures entre Darwin et New York. Les horaires de bureau classiques ne se chevauchent pas du tout avec New York ; il faut donc prévoir un créneau tôt ou tard d'un côté. Il y a un décalage de 8.5 heures entre Darwin et Londres. Avec des horaires de bureau classiques (9h-18h), le chevauchement avec Londres est d'environ 0.5 heures par jour. Bon horaire pour un appel : 17:30–18:00 à Darwin, ce qui correspond à 09:00–09:30 à Londres. Il y a un décalage de 0.5 heures entre Darwin et Tokyo. Avec des horaires de bureau classiques (9h-18h), le chevauchement avec Tokyo est d'environ 8.5 heures par jour. Bon horaire pour un appel : 09:30–18:00 à Darwin, ce qui correspond à 09:00–17:30 à Tokyo. Ce fuseau horaire est aussi partagé par des villes comme Adélaïde. Garder ces décalages en tête facilite la planification d'appels ou de voyages vers Darwin.
Infos pratiques
Darwin (Australie) compte environ 150K habitants. Aujourd'hui, l'ensoleillement dure environ 11.2 heures : lever du soleil à 06:54, coucher à 18:06. Ce fuseau horaire reste fixe toute l'année à UTC+9:30 — l'heure d'été n'est pas appliquée. La ville se situe dans l'hémisphère sud, à environ 12° au sud de l'équateur. La circulation se fait à gauche.
Drapeau
Australie
Capitale
Canberra
Continent
Océanie
Fuseau horaire
ACST · Australia/Darwin
Coordonnées
12.46°S, 130.85°E
Devise
AUD ($)
Indicatif téléphonique
+61
Sens de circulation
Gauche
Hémisphère
Sud
Langue
Anglais
Système de mesure
Métrique
Le saviez-vous ?
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.
Sources
- 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)
Ensoleillement annuel
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