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CURRENT LOCAL TIME

Time in Canberra, Australia

· Australian Eastern Standard Time

AEST · UTC+10—— H FROM YOUAUSTRALIA/SYDNEY

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Canberra against your time zone

Reading your time zone to compare it with Canberra…

Canberra compared with your time zone, hour by hour, with the working-hour overlap shaded
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Canberra time zone facts

IANA time zoneAustralia/Sydney
Offset nowUTC+10 (AEST)
Standard offsetUTC+10 (AEST)
Next clock change4 Oct 2026, 02:00 → 03:00
CountryAustralia (AU)
Population367,752
Coordinates-35.28, 149.13
Places in this zone4

Next clock change: Sunday 4 October 2026, when Canberra moves to UTC+11. Regions change on their own schedules, so the gap between Canberra and cities elsewhere is not fixed — daylight saving explained covers the weeks it goes strange.

Best hours to reach Canberra

From New York
14 hours behind Canberra · their morning
23:00–01:00
09:00–11:00 EDT
From San Francisco
17 hours behind Canberra · their afternoon
09:00–11:00
16:00–18:00 PDT
From Bengaluru
4½ hours behind Canberra · their morning
14:00–18:00
09:00–13:00 IST

Local times in Canberra on the left, the caller’s own clock on the right. Computed from the working-hour overlap for today’s offsets.

About time in Canberra

Canberra keeps Australian Eastern Standard Time, UTC+10 from UTC at the moment. Clocks move twice a year, so the same wall-clock time is a different instant in summer and winter — this page reads the offset in force today rather than an average.

Canberra shares the zone Australia/Sydney with Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong, so a time here is also the time there. One canonical page per zone keeps the difference honest: the settlement name changes, the clock does not.

Offsets and daylight saving rules come from the IANA time zone database — see IANA time zone notes for what that data does and does not promise about future dates.

Canberra converted to other zones

Each opens a comparison page with both cities on one timeline.

Cities on the same offset today

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COMMON QUESTIONS

What time is it in Canberra right now?

The clock at the top of this page reads the current time in Canberra to the second. Canberra is on Australian Eastern Standard Time, UTC+10 — the same clock as every other place in the zone Australia/Sydney.

Does Canberra observe daylight saving time?

Yes. Canberra is on UTC+10 now and UTC+10 outside daylight saving. The next change is Sunday 4 October 2026, when clocks go forward.

What time zone is Canberra in?

Canberra uses the IANA zone Australia/Sydney, currently AEST (UTC+10). Abbreviations are for reading — the zone identifier is the unambiguous name, and it is what you should store in your own systems.

Which other places read the same time as Canberra?

Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong all sit in Australia/Sydney, so they read exactly the same clock, daylight saving changes included.