Indexed entity
Gold Coast is the gold-coast-AU record in Australia: country slug australia, city slug gold-coast, ISO AU, continent Oceania, canonical IANA zone Australia/Brisbane.
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Live local time
Gold Coast, Australia
08:46:40 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Australia/Brisbane
Quick answer
It is currently 08:46:40 PM (AEST, UTC+10:00) in Gold Coast, Australia — Evening.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
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Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
06:30 AM
Sunset
04:58 PM
Day length
10h 28m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Gold Coast, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:46 AM UTC.
Current local time
08:46:40 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
AEST
Australia/Brisbane · UTC+10:00
Next holiday
King's Birthday
Monday, June 8, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Gold Coast right now
Nearest airport
OOL
Gold Coast Airport · 20 km
Indexed airports
12
Curated airport references available for Australia
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Gold Coast, Australia.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 20:46 GMT+10
No reference-city overlap right now
Gold Coast is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC+10:00
Zone label
GMT+10
London
11:46 AM / -9h
New York
06:46 AM / -14h
Los Angeles
03:46 AM / -17h
Schedule risk
King's Birthday on Monday, June 8, 2026
Travel cue
OOL Gold Coast, 20 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:30 AM to 04:58 PM, with solar noon around 11:44 AM and total daylight of 10h 28m.
Mapped location
28.00°S, 153.43°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:46 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:46 AM / -14h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:46 AM / -17h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:46 PM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:46 PM / -2h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Gold Coast.
OOL · Gold Coast Airport
Gold Coast
BNE · Brisbane International Airport
Brisbane
MCY · Sunshine Coast Airport
Maroochydore
WTB · Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport
Toowoomba
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Australia/Brisbane for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+10:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+10:00.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps Gold Coast right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
King's Birthday on Monday, June 8, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: OOL Gold Coast, 20 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Australia/Brisbane. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Gold Coast has no near-term DST change in view, but King's Birthday can still affect office coverage and local response times.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Gold Coast.
Canonical route
/time/australia/gold-coast/
Catalog identity
gold-coast-AU · AU · Oceania
Coordinate cell
28.00°S, 153.43°E · lat -28.000 · lon 153.431 · cell -2800:15343
Population record
640,778 residents · country rank 6
Zone snapshot
Australia/Brisbane · GMT+10 · UTC+10:00
January / July offsets
UTC+10:00 / UTC+10:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Logan City, Australia · 51 km
Nearest world hub
Sydney · 686 km
Closest airport references
OOL Gold Coast 20 km · BNE Brisbane 75 km · MCY Maroochydore 160 km · WTB Toowoomba 168 km
Zone peer roster
Brisbane, Australia · Sunshine Coast, Australia · Logan City, Australia
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Gold Coast: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Gold Coast is the gold-coast-AU record in Australia: country slug australia, city slug gold-coast, ISO AU, continent Oceania, canonical IANA zone Australia/Brisbane.
28.00°S, 153.43°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -29 and longitude band 153; exact decimal pair -28.00029, 153.43088.
Australia: official name Commonwealth of Australia; capital Canberra; region Oceania; subregion Australia and New Zealand; country population 27,536,874; area 7,692,024 km²; languages English; currencies AUD Australian dollar. This is the country layer behind the Gold Coast clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Australia: Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It has a land area of 7,688,287 km2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world. Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates including deserts in the interior and tropical rainforests along the coast. Source: Wikipedia.
Logan City [logan-city-AU, AU, Australia/Brisbane, 51 km]; Brisbane [brisbane-AU, AU, Australia/Brisbane, 71 km]; Sunshine Coast [sunshine-coast-AU, AU, Australia/Brisbane, 153 km]; Newcastle [newcastle-AU, AU, Australia/Sydney, 570 km]; Sydney [sydney-AU, AU, Australia/Sydney, 686 km]; Canberra [canberra-AU, AU, Australia/Sydney, 906 km]; Melbourne [melbourne-AU, AU, Australia/Sydney, 1346 km]; Kingston [kingston-NF, NF, Pacific/Norfolk, 1424 km]
Gold Coast is part of this indexed country cluster: Sydney [sydney-AU, Australia/Sydney, pop 5,557,233]; Melbourne [melbourne-AU, Australia/Sydney, pop 5,350,705]; Brisbane [brisbane-AU, Australia/Brisbane, pop 2,780,063]; Perth [perth-AU, Australia/Perth, pop 2,309,338]; Adelaide [adelaide-AU, Australia/Adelaide, pop 1,469,163]; Gold Coast [gold-coast-AU, Australia/Brisbane, pop 640,778]; Newcastle [newcastle-AU, Australia/Sydney, pop 508,437]; Canberra [canberra-AU, Australia/Sydney, pop 367,752]; Sunshine Coast [sunshine-coast-AU, Australia/Brisbane, pop 346,522]; Logan City [logan-city-AU, Australia/Brisbane, pop 345,098].
Sydney 686 km; Singapore 6,214 km; Tokyo 7,226 km; Los Angeles 11,562 km; Dubai 12,038 km; São Paulo 13,893 km; New York 15,497 km; London 16,597 km
OOL Gold Coast Airport in Gold Coast [AU, 20 km]; BNE Brisbane International Airport in Brisbane [AU, 75 km]; MCY Sunshine Coast Airport in Maroochydore [AU, 160 km]; WTB Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport in Toowoomba [AU, 168 km]; NTL Newcastle Airport in Williamtown [AU, 555 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include ADL Adelaide International Airport in Adelaide [AU]; AVV Melbourne Avalon International Airport in Geelong/Melbourne [AU]; BNE Brisbane International Airport in Brisbane [AU]; CNS Cairns International Airport in Cairns [AU]; HBA Hobart International Airport in Hobart (Cambridge) [AU]; MCY Sunshine Coast Airport in Maroochydore [AU]; MEL Melbourne Airport in Melbourne [AU]; NTL Newcastle Airport in Williamtown [AU]; OOL Gold Coast Airport in Gold Coast [AU]; PER Perth International Airport in Perth [AU].
Gold Coast renders Jun 2, 2026 · 20:46 GMT+10; GMT+10 at UTC+10:00; January UTC+10:00; July UTC+10:00; next holiday King's Birthday on 2026-06-08.
This evidence pack is what keeps smaller city pages from reading like timezone templates: concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Gold Coast.
Gold Coast is a context-and-reference city; rank #6 of 21 retained Australia city pages. The route is /time/australia/gold-coast/ and the city id is gold-coast-AU.
Gold Coast has 15 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Gold Coast is pinned at 28.00°S, 153.43°E; Logan City (51 km); Sydney (686 km).
Australia/Brisbane resolves to stable UTC+10:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Australia.
OOL Gold Coast Airport (20 km) · King's Birthday (Monday, June 8, 2026) · 12 country airport references · 25 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Gold Coast uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Gold Coast, Queensland: The Gold Coast, also known by its initials, GC, is a coastal city and region in the state of Queensland, Australia, located approximately 66 kilometres (41 mi) south-southeast of the centre of the state capital, Brisbane. It is on the central eastern coast of Australia facing the Pacific Ocean. It is Queensland's second-largest city after Brisbane, as well as Australia's sixth-largest city and the most populous non-capital city. The city's central business district is located roughly in the centre of the Gold Coast in the suburb of Southport. The urban area of the Gold Coast is concentrated along the coast, sprawling almost 60 kilometres, joining up with the Greater Brisbane metropolitan region to the north and to the state border with New South Wales to the south. Nicknames of the city include the ‘Glitter Strip’ and the ‘Goldy’. The demonym of a Gold Coast resident is Gold Coaster.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+10:00) is constant year-round.
Gold Coast is listed in the dataset snapshot as 10 hours ahead of UTC (offset +10:00). 9 hours ahead of London, 1 hour ahead of Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 153.43°, Gold Coast's mean solar noon falls about 14 minutes before civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run earlier on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Gold Coast sits at 28.00°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 13 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 47 minutes on the June solstice.
Gold Coast sits at 28.00°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 13 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 47 minutes on the June solstice.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Dec 17 (13h 55m)
Shortest day
Jun 15 (10h 22m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
3h 33m
See the full daylight curve for Gold Coast at /sun/gold-coast/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Gold Coast local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Gold Coast |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 23:00 - 07:00 (next day) |
| London | Europe/London | 18:00 - 02:00 (next day) |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 17:00 - 01:00 (next day) |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 15:00 - 23:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 13:30 - 21:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 11:00 - 19:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 11:00 - 19:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 10:00 - 18:00 |
IANA time zones in country
7
Public holidays in 2026
25
Reference fields include Gold Coast's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 08:46:40 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Gold Coast (UTC+10:00, AEST).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:30 AM to 04:58 PM
Day length 10h 28m · Solar noon 11:44 AM
Next country holiday
King's Birthday
Monday, June 8, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Gold Coast local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
ICML 2026
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34 days to go
Adobe MAX 2026
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161 days to go
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187 days to go
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5 days to go
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8 days to go
Population
640.8K
Coordinates
-28.00, 153.43
Timezone
Australia/Brisbane
Indexed airports
12
Capital
Canberra
Languages
English
Currency
AUD ($)
Country area
7,692,024 km²
Gold Coast, Australia (population rank #6 in this dataset). Time zone: Australia/Brisbane (AEST, UTC+10:00); population ~640.8K.
Coordinates: 28.00°S, 153.43°E. Southern Hemisphere subtropics, ~3108 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:30 AM and sets around 04:58 PM in Gold Coast — about 10h 28m of daylight. Australia stays on standard time here, so UTC+10:00 is stable through the year.
Logan City (51 km from Gold Coast) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 12 curated airport pages indexed for Australia.
Next national holiday: King's Birthday, 2026-06-08.
Gold Coast is indexed as a Oceania city in the AU country record, using Australia/Brisbane as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/australia/gold-coast/.
Location context: 28.00°S, 153.43°E; population 640,778; nearest indexed city Logan City is about 51 km away; closest reference hub is Sydney, about 686 km away.
Country planning context: capital Canberra; subregion Australia and New Zealand; languages English; currency AUD ($); area 7,692,024 km²; 12 curated airport references; next holiday King's Birthday on 2026-06-08.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+10:00) is constant year-round.
Gold Coast is listed in the dataset snapshot as 10 hours ahead of UTC (offset +10:00). 9 hours ahead of London, 1 hour ahead of Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 153.43°, Gold Coast's mean solar noon falls about 14 minutes before civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run earlier on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Gold Coast sits at 28.00°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 13 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 47 minutes on the June solstice.
Sizeable city with about 641 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Gold Coast: Sydney (same time), San Francisco (−17h), Los Angeles (−17h), Johannesburg (−8h), São Paulo (−13h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
australia
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
AEST
IANA Zone
Australia/Brisbane
UTC Offset
UTC+10:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+10:00
Australia, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Micronesia, Antarctica, Papua New Guinea, Russia
Other cities in this timezone
London
-9h
New York
-14h
Los Angeles
-17h
Dubai
-6h
Singapore
-2h
Tokyo
-1h
Sydney
+0h
São Paulo
-13h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Gold Coast.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Gold Coast: closest hubs Sydney (~686 km), Singapore (~6,214 km), Tokyo (~7,226 km); farthest indexed hub London (~16,597 km).
Gold Coast sits inside Australia — the Australia and New Zealand subregion, capital Canberra, languages English, currency AUD ($).
Closest indexed cities to Gold Coast: Logan City (51 km), Brisbane (71 km), Sunshine Coast (153 km), Newcastle (570 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Gold Coast: King's Birthday, Picnic Day, King's Birthday. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Australia.
Closest curated airport references from Gold Coast: OOL Gold Coast (20 km), BNE Brisbane (75 km), MCY Maroochydore (160 km).
Australia has clear annual scheduling moments that help a country page feel less generic.
Gold Coast AirportOOL
Gold Coast · 20 km from Gold Coast
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 47m
Brisbane International AirportBNE
Brisbane · 75 km from Gold Coast
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 51m
Sunshine Coast AirportMCY
Maroochydore · 160 km from Gold Coast
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 57m
Toowoomba Wellcamp AirportWTB
Toowoomba · 168 km from Gold Coast
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 58m
Newcastle AirportNTL
Williamtown · 555 km from Gold Coast
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 28m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
0 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:46 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:46 AM | -14h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:46 AM | -17h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:46 PM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:46 PM | -2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:46 PM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:46 PM | +0h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:46 AM | -13h | Check the overlap widget below |
Logan City
Australia
Approx. 51 km away
Brisbane
Australia
Approx. 71 km away
Sunshine Coast
Australia
Approx. 153 km away
Newcastle
Australia
Approx. 570 km away
Sydney
Australia
Approx. 686 km away
Canberra
Australia
Approx. 906 km away
Melbourne
Australia
Approx. 1346 km away
Kingston
Norfolk Island
Approx. 1424 km away
Gold Coast is in the Australia/Brisbane timezone (AEST), with a UTC offset of +10:00.
Gold Coast does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+10:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Gold Coast is UTC+10:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Gold Coast, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 20:46 GMT+10. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Gold Coast sits at 28.00°S, 153.43°E in Australia, with about 640.8K residents (rank #6 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Gold Coast is Sydney, about 686 km away as the crow flies.
Logan City is the closest indexed city, roughly 51 km from Gold Coast.
Gold Coast Airport (OOL) is the closest curated airport reference, about 20 km from Gold Coast.
King's Birthday is the next upcoming holiday in Australia, on Monday, June 8, 2026.
Gold Coast uses Australian dollar (AUD, symbol $) as the local currency of Australia.
The longest day of 2026 in Gold Coast falls on Dec 17 with about 13h 55m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 15 with 10h 22m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
Australia spans 7 IANA time zones in total; Gold Coast's canonical zone for this page is Australia/Brisbane.
In Gold Coast local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 23:00-07:00 (next day); London 18:00-02:00 (next day); Frankfurt 17:00-01:00 (next day); Dubai 15:00-23:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.