Current Time in Adelaide, Australia
Time and Sun Facts for Adelaide
- Local time
- 8:16 am
- Date
- Sunday, 25 October 2026
- Time zone
Australia/Adelaide- UTC offset
- UTC+10:30
- Daylight saving
- In effect now
- Next clock change
- 4 April 2027 — clocks go back
- Sunrise
- 6:21 am
- Sunset
- 7:37 pm
- Day length
- 13 hours 16 minutes
- Coordinates
- -34.93, 138.60
How Adelaide Keeps Time
Adelaide keeps ACDT, UTC+10:30. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Adelaide; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.
Adelaide runs on the Australia/Adelaide zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC+10:30 right now. The clocks change twice a year here: UTC+9:30 on standard time and UTC+10:30 while daylight saving is in force. The next change is on 4 April 2027, when clocks go back one hour.
Adelaide is one of the places that sits 30 minutes off the hour rather than on it, so a straight “add five hours” conversion will always be 30 minutes wrong.
The sun rises in Adelaide at 6:21 am today and sets at 7:37 pm — 13 hours 16 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:59 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (-34.93, 138.60), so they shift a little every day of the year.
On the two solstices, Adelaide has about 9 hours 48 minutes of daylight in June and 14 hours 30 minutes in December. The difference is about 4 hours 42 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.
At the current civil offset, Adelaide’s longitude corresponds to a difference of about 1 hour 16 minutes between zone time and longitude-based mean solar time. Today’s calculated solar noon is 12:59 pm rather than 12:00 on the clock.
ACDT is one of several zones in Australia, so a time quoted for the country as a whole is not necessarily the time here. Check the city rather than the country when it matters.
Adelaide at a Glance
| Coordinates | -34.9300, 138.6000 |
|---|---|
| IANA time zone | Australia/Adelaide |
| Current UTC offset | UTC+10:30 |
| Daylight saving | Observed seasonally |
| Sunrise today | 6:21 am |
| Sunset today | 7:37 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:59 pm |
| Daylight today | 13 hours 16 minutes |
| Straight-line distance to Canberra | 958 km |
| Current clock difference vs Canberra | −30 minutes |
How Adelaide Compares with Other Cities
Read the last column as the other city relative to Adelaide. Where either place uses daylight saving, the gap changes for part of the year — the time difference calculator always shows today’s figure.
| City | Local time | Compared with Adelaide |
|---|---|---|
| London | 10:46 pm | 9 hours 30 minutes behind |
| New York | 5:46 pm | 14 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Los Angeles | 2:46 pm | 17 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Dubai | 1:46 am | 6 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Karachi | 2:46 am | 5 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Singapore | 5:46 am | 2 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Tokyo | 6:46 am | 1 hour 30 minutes behind |
| Sydney | 8:46 am | 30 minutes ahead |
Nearby Listed Cities to Adelaide
Distances are straight-line geographic distances between the coordinates used by the directory; road or rail distances will be longer.
| City | Approx. distance | Local time |
|---|---|---|
| Melbourne | 653 km | 8:46 am |
| Canberra | 958 km | 8:46 am |
| Hobart | 1,161 km | 8:46 am |
| Sydney | 1,162 km | 8:46 am |
| Gold Coast | 1,598 km | 7:46 am |
Other Cities in Australia
Australia keeps more than one zone, so these do not all read the same.
Questions People Ask
When does Adelaide next change its clocks?
The next transition is 4 April 2027. Use Australia/Adelaide in calendar software instead of pinning an event to one fixed UTC offset.
Why is Adelaide not on a whole-hour UTC offset?
This zone is 30 minutes beyond a whole hour. Use UTC+10:30 or the IANA zone name for conversions instead of rounding it.
Is Adelaide the time everywhere in Australia?
No. Australia currently has 5 distinct civil UTC offsets represented in the directory, so the country page separates the regions.
Why is solar noon in Adelaide far from 12:00?
The current civil offset and the city longitude do not place mean solar noon at twelve on the clock. Today the calculated solar noon is 12:59 pm.
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