Indexed entity
Palmerston is the palmerston-AU record in Australia: country slug australia, city slug palmerston, ISO AU, continent Oceania, canonical IANA zone Australia/Darwin.
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Live local time
Palmerston, Australia
08:14:07 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Australia/Darwin
Quick answer
It is currently 08:14:07 PM (ACST, UTC+09:30) in Palmerston, Australia — Evening.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
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Code
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Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
07:01 AM
Sunset
06:27 PM
Day length
11h 26m
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 Palmerston, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:44 AM UTC.
Current local time
08:14:07 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
ACST
Australia/Darwin · UTC+09:30
Next holiday
King's Birthday
Monday, June 8, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Palmerston right now
Nearest airport
CNS
Cairns International Airport · 1661 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 Palmerston, Australia.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 20:14 GMT+9:30
No reference-city overlap right now
Palmerston is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC+09:30
Zone label
GMT+9:30
London
11:44 AM / -8h 30m
New York
06:44 AM / -13h 30m
Los Angeles
03:44 AM / -16h 30m
Schedule risk
King's Birthday on Monday, June 8, 2026
Travel cue
CNS Cairns, 1661 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 07:01 AM to 06:27 PM, with solar noon around 12:44 PM and total daylight of 11h 26m.
Mapped location
12.49°S, 130.98°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:44 AM / -8h 30m
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:44 AM / -13h 30m
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:44 AM / -16h 30m
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:44 PM / -5h 30m
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:44 PM / -1h 30m
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 Palmerston.
CNS · Cairns International Airport
Cairns
ADL · Adelaide International Airport
Adelaide
PER · Perth International Airport
Perth
WTB · Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport
Toowoomba
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Australia/Darwin for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+09:30; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+09:30.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps Palmerston 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: CNS Cairns, 1661 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Australia/Darwin. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Palmerston 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 Palmerston.
Canonical route
/time/australia/palmerston/
Catalog identity
palmerston-AU · AU · Oceania
Coordinate cell
12.49°S, 130.98°E · lat -12.486 · lon 130.983 · cell -1249:13098
Population record
33,695 residents · country rank 16
Zone snapshot
Australia/Darwin · GMT+9:30 · UTC+09:30
January / July offsets
UTC+09:30 / UTC+09:30
Nearest indexed neighbor
Darwin, Australia · 16 km
Nearest world hub
Sydney · 3,137 km
Closest airport references
CNS Cairns 1661 km · ADL Adelaide 2611 km · PER Perth 2652 km · WTB Toowoomba 2737 km
Zone peer roster
Darwin, Australia · Alice Springs, Australia
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Palmerston: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Palmerston is the palmerston-AU record in Australia: country slug australia, city slug palmerston, ISO AU, continent Oceania, canonical IANA zone Australia/Darwin.
12.49°S, 130.98°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -13 and longitude band 130; exact decimal pair -12.48602, 130.98330.
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 Palmerston 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.
Darwin [darwin-AU, AU, Australia/Darwin, 16 km]; Suai [suai-TL, TL, Asia/Dili, 718 km]; Dili [dili-TL, TL, Asia/Dili, 735 km]; Maliana [maliana-TL, TL, Asia/Dili, 740 km]; Likisá [likisa-TL, TL, Asia/Dili, 754 km]; Ambon [ambon-ID, ID, Asia/Jayapura, 1025 km]; Alice Springs [alice-springs-AU, AU, Australia/Darwin, 1284 km]; Sorong [sorong-ID, ID, Asia/Jayapura, 1291 km]
Palmerston 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 3,137 km; Singapore 3,370 km; Tokyo 5,432 km; Dubai 9,203 km; Los Angeles 12,685 km; London 13,862 km; São Paulo 16,000 km; New York 16,042 km
CNS Cairns International Airport in Cairns [AU, 1661 km]; ADL Adelaide International Airport in Adelaide [AU, 2611 km]; PER Perth International Airport in Perth [AU, 2652 km]; WTB Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport in Toowoomba [AU, 2737 km]; MCY Sunshine Coast Airport in Maroochydore [AU, 2789 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].
Palmerston renders Jun 2, 2026 · 20:14 GMT+9:30; GMT+9:30 at UTC+09:30; January UTC+09:30; July UTC+09:30; 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 Palmerston.
Palmerston is a context-and-reference city; rank #16 of 21 retained Australia city pages. The route is /time/australia/palmerston/ and the city id is palmerston-AU.
Palmerston 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.
Palmerston is pinned at 12.49°S, 130.98°E; Darwin (16 km); Sydney (3,137 km).
Australia/Darwin resolves to stable UTC+09:30 offset across January and July. 2 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Australia.
CNS Cairns International Airport (1661 km) · King's Birthday (Monday, June 8, 2026) · 12 country airport references · 25 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Palmerston 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.
Christie Palmerston: Cristofero Palmerston Carandini or Christopher "Christie" Palmerston was an Australian explorer and prospector in North Queensland. He led several expeditions during the last quarter of the 19th century including the discovery of a route along the Mowbray River, which eventually led to the founding of Port Douglas.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+09:30) is constant year-round.
Palmerston is listed in the dataset snapshot as 9.5 hours ahead of UTC (offset +09:30). 8.5 hours ahead of London, 0.5 hours ahead of Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 130.98°, Palmerston's mean solar noon falls about 46 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Palmerston sits at 12.49°S, in the southern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Palmerston sits at 12.49°S, in the southern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
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 19 (12h 52m)
Shortest day
Jun 18 (11h 23m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
1h 29m
See the full daylight curve for Palmerston at /sun/palmerston/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Palmerston local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Palmerston |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 22:30 - 06:30 (next day) |
| London | Europe/London | 17:30 - 01:30 (next day) |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 16:30 - 00:30 (next day) |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 14:30 - 22:30 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 13:00 - 21:00 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 10:30 - 18:30 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 10:30 - 18:30 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 09:30 - 17:30 |
IANA time zones in country
7
Public holidays in 2026
25
Reference fields include Palmerston's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 08:14:07 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Palmerston (UTC+09:30, ACST).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
07:01 AM to 06:27 PM
Day length 11h 26m · Solar noon 12:44 PM
Next country holiday
King's Birthday
Monday, June 8, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Palmerston local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
33.7K
Coordinates
-12.49, 130.98
Timezone
Australia/Darwin
Indexed airports
12
Capital
Canberra
Languages
English
Currency
AUD ($)
Country area
7,692,024 km²
Palmerston, Australia (population rank #16 in this dataset). Time zone: Australia/Darwin (ACST, UTC+09:30); population ~33.7K.
Coordinates: 12.49°S, 130.98°E. Southern Hemisphere tropics, ~1386 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 07:01 AM and sets around 06:27 PM in Palmerston — about 11h 26m of daylight. Australia stays on standard time here, so UTC+09:30 is stable through the year.
Darwin (16 km from Palmerston) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 12 curated airport pages indexed for Australia.
Next national holiday: King's Birthday, 2026-06-08.
Palmerston is indexed as a Oceania city in the AU country record, using Australia/Darwin as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/australia/palmerston/.
Location context: 12.49°S, 130.98°E; population 33,695; nearest indexed city Darwin is about 16 km away; closest reference hub is Sydney, about 3,137 km away.
Country planning context: capital Canberra; subregion Australia and New Zealand; languages English; currency AUD ($); 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 (+09:30) is constant year-round.
Palmerston is listed in the dataset snapshot as 9.5 hours ahead of UTC (offset +09:30). 8.5 hours ahead of London, 0.5 hours ahead of Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 130.98°, Palmerston's mean solar noon falls about 46 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Palmerston sits at 12.49°S, in the southern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Related clock anchors for Palmerston: Sydney (+0.5h), San Francisco (−16.5h), Los Angeles (−16.5h), Lima (−14.5h), Luanda (−8.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
australia
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
ACST
IANA Zone
Australia/Darwin
UTC Offset
UTC+09:30
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+09:30
Australia
Other cities in this timezone
London
-8h 30m
New York
-13h 30m
Los Angeles
-16h 30m
Dubai
-5h 30m
Singapore
-1h 30m
Tokyo
-0h 30m
Sydney
+0h 30m
São Paulo
-12h 30m
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 Palmerston.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Palmerston: closest hubs Sydney (~3,137 km), Singapore (~3,370 km), Tokyo (~5,432 km); farthest indexed hub New York (~16,042 km).
Palmerston sits inside Australia — the Australia and New Zealand subregion, capital Canberra, languages English, currency AUD ($).
Closest indexed cities to Palmerston: Darwin (16 km), Suai (718 km), Dili (735 km), Maliana (740 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Palmerston: King's Birthday, Picnic Day, King's Birthday. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Australia.
Closest curated airport references from Palmerston: CNS Cairns (1661 km), ADL Adelaide (2611 km), PER Perth (2652 km).
Australia has clear annual scheduling moments that help a country page feel less generic.
Cairns International AirportCNS
Cairns · 1661 km from Palmerston
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 53m
Adelaide International AirportADL
Adelaide · 2611 km from Palmerston
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 4h 6m
Perth International AirportPER
Perth · 2652 km from Palmerston
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 4h 9m
Toowoomba Wellcamp AirportWTB
Toowoomba · 2737 km from Palmerston
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 4h 16m
Sunshine Coast AirportMCY
Maroochydore · 2789 km from Palmerston
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 4h 20m
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 | 11:44 AM | -8h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:44 AM | -13h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:44 AM | -16h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:44 PM | -5h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:44 PM | -1h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:44 PM | -0h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:44 PM | +0h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:44 AM | -12h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
Palmerston is in the Australia/Darwin timezone (ACST), with a UTC offset of +09:30.
Palmerston does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+09:30 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Palmerston is UTC+09:30.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Palmerston, 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 · 20:14 GMT+9:30. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Palmerston sits at 12.49°S, 130.98°E in Australia, with about 33.7K residents (rank #16 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Palmerston is Sydney, about 3,137 km away as the crow flies.
Darwin is the closest indexed city, roughly 16 km from Palmerston.
Cairns International Airport (CNS) is the closest curated airport reference, about 1661 km from Palmerston.
King's Birthday is the next upcoming holiday in Australia, on Monday, June 8, 2026.
Palmerston uses Australian dollar (AUD, symbol $) as the local currency of Australia.
The longest day of 2026 in Palmerston falls on Dec 19 with about 12h 52m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 18 with 11h 23m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
Australia spans 7 IANA time zones in total; Palmerston's canonical zone for this page is Australia/Darwin.
In Palmerston local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 22:30-06:30 (next day); London 17:30-01:30 (next day); Frankfurt 16:30-00:30 (next day); Dubai 14:30-22:30. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.