Indexed entity
Sydney is the sydney-AU record in Australia: country slug australia, city slug sydney, ISO AU, continent Oceania, canonical IANA zone Australia/Sydney.
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Live local time
Sydney, Australia
08:46:28 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Australia/Sydney
Quick answer
It is currently 08:46:28 PM (AEST, UTC+10:00) in Sydney, Australia — Evening.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
19°C
Partly cloudy
3-day forecast
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90% rain
Wed
21°C
14°C
73% rain
Thu
20°C
17°C
88% rain
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Code
Australian Dollar
1 USD = 1.404 AUD
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
06:52 AM
Sunset
04:54 PM
Day length
10h 2m
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 Sydney, 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
08:46:28 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
AEST
Australia/Sydney · UTC+10:00
Next holiday
King's Birthday
Monday, June 8, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
0 / 7
Reference markets are overlapping with Sydney right now
Nearest airport
SYD
Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport · 9 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 Sydney, Australia.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 20:46 GMT+10
No reference-city overlap right now
Sydney 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
SYD Sydney (Mascot), 9 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:52 AM to 04:54 PM, with solar noon around 11:53 AM and total daylight of 10h 2m.
Mapped location
33.87°S, 151.21°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 Sydney.
SYD · Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport
Sydney (Mascot)
NTL · Newcastle Airport
Williamtown
OOL · Gold Coast Airport
Gold Coast
WTB · Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport
Toowoomba
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Australia/Sydney for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+10:00; seasonal offset, UTC+11:00 in January and UTC+10:00 in July.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps Sydney 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: SYD Sydney (Mascot), 9 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
Next detected clock change: October 4, 2026, moving forward from 2026-10-04 01:59 (GMT+10) to 2026-10-04 03:00 (GMT+11).
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Sydney has a detected clock-change edge. Re-check recurring meetings within two weeks of October 4, 2026, especially if the other city does not change clocks on the same weekend.
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 Sydney.
Canonical route
/time/australia/sydney/
Catalog identity
sydney-AU · AU · Oceania
Coordinate cell
33.87°S, 151.21°E · lat -33.868 · lon 151.207 · cell -3387:15121
Population record
5,557,233 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Australia/Sydney · GMT+10 · UTC+10:00
January / July offsets
UTC+11:00 / UTC+10:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Newcastle, Australia · 117 km
Nearest world hub
Sydney · null km
Closest airport references
SYD Sydney (Mascot) 9 km · NTL Williamtown 133 km · OOL Gold Coast 671 km · WTB Toowoomba 704 km
Zone peer roster
Melbourne, Australia · Newcastle, Australia · Canberra, Australia
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Sydney: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Sydney is the sydney-AU record in Australia: country slug australia, city slug sydney, ISO AU, continent Oceania, canonical IANA zone Australia/Sydney.
33.87°S, 151.21°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -34 and longitude band 151; exact decimal pair -33.86785, 151.20732.
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 Sydney 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.
Newcastle [newcastle-AU, AU, Australia/Sydney, 117 km]; Canberra [canberra-AU, AU, Australia/Sydney, 247 km]; Gold Coast [gold-coast-AU, AU, Australia/Brisbane, 686 km]; Melbourne [melbourne-AU, AU, Australia/Sydney, 713 km]; Logan City [logan-city-AU, AU, Australia/Brisbane, 716 km]; Brisbane [brisbane-AU, AU, Australia/Brisbane, 733 km]; Sunshine Coast [sunshine-coast-AU, AU, Australia/Brisbane, 822 km]; Mount Gambier [mount-gambier-AU, AU, Australia/Adelaide, 1037 km]
Sydney 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 null km; Singapore 6,306 km; Tokyo 7,826 km; Dubai 12,049 km; Los Angeles 12,074 km; São Paulo 13,357 km; New York 15,989 km; London 16,994 km
SYD Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport in Sydney (Mascot) [AU, 9 km]; NTL Newcastle Airport in Williamtown [AU, 133 km]; OOL Gold Coast Airport in Gold Coast [AU, 671 km]; WTB Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport in Toowoomba [AU, 704 km]; MEL Melbourne Airport in Melbourne [AU, 713 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].
Sydney renders Jun 2, 2026 · 20:46 GMT+10; GMT+10 at UTC+10:00; January UTC+11:00; July UTC+10:00; next holiday King's Birthday on 2026-06-08.
This evidence pack keeps the manual city dossier tied to the concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Sydney.
Sydney is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 21 retained Australia city pages. The route is /time/australia/sydney/ and the city id is sydney-AU.
Sydney has 16 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.
Sydney is pinned at 33.87°S, 151.21°E; Newcastle (117 km); Sydney (null km).
Australia/Sydney resolves to seasonal offset split: UTC+11:00 in January and UTC+10:00 in July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Australia.
SYD Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (9 km) · King's Birthday (Monday, June 8, 2026) · 12 country airport references · 25 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Sydney 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.
Sydney: Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and is the most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 kilometres (50 mi) from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 kilometres (50 mi) from Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west, to the Royal National Park and Macarthur in the south and south-west. Greater Sydney consists of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are colloquially known as "Sydneysiders". The estimated population in June 2025 was 5,638,830, which is about 66% of the state's population. The city's nicknames include the Emerald City and the Harbour City.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC+10:00 and summer UTC+11:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone Australia/Sydney.
Sydney 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.
Sydney sits at 33.87°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 9 hours 45 minutes on the December solstice and about 14 hours 15 minutes on the June solstice.
Sydney sits at 33.87°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 9 hours 45 minutes on the December solstice and about 14 hours 15 minutes on the June solstice.
Major metropolitan area with around 5.6 million residents in the city proper.
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 16 (14h 24m)
Shortest day
Jun 16 (9h 54m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
4h 30m
See the full daylight curve for Sydney at /sun/sydney/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Sydney local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Sydney |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the capital of the state of New South Wales, with a metropolitan population of about 5.4 million. Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST, UTC+10) and Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT, UTC+11) apply, with DST running from the first Sunday in October to the first Sunday in April. The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is headquartered in Sydney and is Australia's primary listing venue. The Sydney Opera House (opened 1973) and the Sydney Harbour Bridge (opened 1932) are global icons, and the city hosted the Summer Olympics in 2000. Sydney is one of the only major southern-hemisphere financial hubs and its trading day opens before any other major Asia-Pacific market.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-09 (manual).
Reference fields include Sydney's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 08:46:28 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Sydney (UTC+10:00, AEST).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:52 AM to 04:54 PM
Day length 10h 2m · Solar noon 11:53 AM
Next country holiday
King's Birthday
Monday, June 8, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Sydney local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
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187 days to go
Xbox Games Showcase 2026
keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
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keynoteWednesday, June 10, 2026
8 days to go
ICML 2026
keynoteMonday, July 6, 2026
34 days to go
Translate major exchange sessions into Sydney local time. These links are shown only for curated financial-center city pages that have valid market-hour routes.
Population
5.6M
Coordinates
-33.87, 151.21
Timezone
Australia/Sydney
Indexed airports
12
Capital
Canberra
Languages
English
Currency
AUD ($)
Country area
7,692,024 km²
Sydney, Australia (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Australia/Sydney (AEST, UTC+10:00); population ~5.6M.
Coordinates: 33.87°S, 151.21°E. Southern Hemisphere subtropics, ~3759 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:52 AM and sets around 04:54 PM in Sydney — about 10h 2m of daylight. Australia stays on standard time here, so UTC+10:00 is stable through the year.
Newcastle (117 km from Sydney) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 12 curated airport pages indexed for Australia.
Next national holiday: King's Birthday, 2026-06-08.
Sydney is indexed as a Oceania city in the AU country record, using Australia/Sydney as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/australia/sydney/.
Location context: 33.87°S, 151.21°E; population 5,557,233; nearest indexed city Newcastle is about 117 km away; closest reference hub is Sydney, about null km away.
Country planning context: capital Canberra; subregion Australia and New Zealand; languages English; currency AUD ($); area 7,692,024 km²; 12 curated airport references; next holiday King's Birthday on 2026-06-08.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC+10:00 and summer UTC+11:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone Australia/Sydney.
Sydney 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.
Sydney sits at 33.87°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 9 hours 45 minutes on the December solstice and about 14 hours 15 minutes on the June solstice.
Major metropolitan area with around 5.6 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Sydney: Melbourne (same time), San Francisco (−17h), Los Angeles (−17h), Johannesburg (−8h), Mumbai (−4.5h).
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/Sydney
UTC Offset
UTC+10:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
London
-9h
New York
-14h
Los Angeles
-17h
Dubai
-6h
Singapore
-2h
Tokyo
-1h
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 Sydney.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Sydney: closest hubs Sydney (~null km), Singapore (~6,306 km), Tokyo (~7,826 km); farthest indexed hub London (~16,994 km).
Sydney sits inside Australia — the Australia and New Zealand subregion, capital Canberra, languages English, currency AUD ($).
Closest indexed cities to Sydney: Newcastle (117 km), Canberra (247 km), Gold Coast (686 km), Melbourne (713 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Sydney: King's Birthday, Picnic Day, King's Birthday. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Australia.
Closest curated airport references from Sydney: SYD Sydney (Mascot) (9 km), NTL Williamtown (133 km), OOL Gold Coast (671 km).
Australia has clear annual scheduling moments that help a country page feel less generic.
Sydney Kingsford Smith International AirportSYD
Sydney (Mascot) · 9 km from Sydney
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Newcastle AirportNTL
Williamtown · 133 km from Sydney
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 55m
Gold Coast AirportOOL
Gold Coast · 671 km from Sydney
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 37m
Toowoomba Wellcamp AirportWTB
Toowoomba · 704 km from Sydney
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 39m
Melbourne AirportMEL
Melbourne · 713 km from Sydney
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 40m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
0 of 7 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 |
| São Paulo | 07:46 AM | -13h | Check the overlap widget below |
Newcastle
Australia
Approx. 117 km away
Canberra
Australia
Approx. 247 km away
Gold Coast
Australia
Approx. 686 km away
Melbourne
Australia
Approx. 713 km away
Logan City
Australia
Approx. 716 km away
Brisbane
Australia
Approx. 733 km away
Sunshine Coast
Australia
Approx. 822 km away
Mount Gambier
Australia
Approx. 1037 km away
Sydney is in the Australia/Sydney timezone (AEST), with a UTC offset of +10:00.
Sydney uses seasonal daylight saving rules in Australia/Sydney. The current offset is UTC+10:00; January resolves to UTC+11:00 and July resolves to UTC+10:00.
The current UTC offset for Sydney is UTC+10:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Sydney, 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.
Sydney sits at 33.87°S, 151.21°E in Australia, with about 5.6M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Sydney is Sydney, about null km away as the crow flies.
Newcastle is the closest indexed city, roughly 117 km from Sydney.
Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD) is the closest curated airport reference, about 9 km from Sydney.
King's Birthday is the next upcoming holiday in Australia, on Monday, June 8, 2026.
Sydney uses Australian dollar (AUD, symbol $) as the local currency of Australia.
The longest day of 2026 in Sydney falls on Dec 16 with about 14h 24m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 16 with 9h 54m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
Australia spans 7 IANA time zones in total; Sydney's canonical zone for this page is Australia/Sydney.
In Sydney 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.