Current Time in Brisbane, Australia
Time and Sun Facts for Brisbane
- Local time
- 6:12 am
- Date
- Tuesday, 27 October 2026
- Time zone
Australia/Brisbane- UTC offset
- UTC+10
- Daylight saving
- Not observed here — the offset is the same all year
- Sunrise
- 5:01 am
- Sunset
- 6:02 pm
- Day length
- 13 hours 1 minute
- Coordinates
- -27.47, 153.03
How Brisbane Keeps Time
Brisbane keeps AEST, UTC+10. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Brisbane; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.
Brisbane runs on the Australia/Brisbane zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC+10 right now. There is no daylight saving here, so that offset holds all year and the difference to other places only changes when they move their own clocks.
The sun rises in Brisbane at 5:01 am today and sets at 6:02 pm — 13 hours 1 minute of daylight, with solar noon at 11:31 am. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (-27.47, 153.03), so they shift a little every day of the year.
On the two solstices, Brisbane has about 10 hours 24 minutes of daylight in June and 13 hours 53 minutes in December. The difference is about 3 hours 28 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.
AEST 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.
Brisbane at a Glance
| Coordinates | -27.4700, 153.0300 |
|---|---|
| IANA time zone | Australia/Brisbane |
| Current UTC offset | UTC+10 |
| Daylight saving | Not currently observed |
| Sunrise today | 5:01 am |
| Sunset today | 6:02 pm |
| Solar noon | 11:31 am |
| Daylight today | 13 hours 1 minute |
| Straight-line distance to Canberra | 944 km |
| Current clock difference vs Canberra | −1 hour |
How Brisbane Compares with Other Cities
Read the last column as the other city relative to Brisbane. 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 Brisbane |
|---|---|---|
| London | 8:12 pm | 10 hours behind |
| New York | 4:12 pm | 14 hours behind |
| Los Angeles | 1:12 pm | 17 hours behind |
| Dubai | 12:12 am | 6 hours behind |
| Karachi | 1:12 am | 5 hours behind |
| Singapore | 4:12 am | 2 hours behind |
| Tokyo | 5:12 am | 1 hour behind |
| Sydney | 7:12 am | 1 hour ahead |
Nearby Listed Cities to Brisbane
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gold Coast | 71 km | 6:12 am |
| Sydney | 733 km | 7:12 am |
| Canberra | 944 km | 7:12 am |
| Melbourne | 1,374 km | 7:12 am |
| Cairns | 1,390 km | 6:12 am |
Other Cities in Australia
Australia keeps more than one zone, so these do not all read the same.
Questions People Ask
Is Brisbane 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.
More Clocks and Time Zones
the current time in Brisbane, Australia has its own page so it can be linked to directly. world clock and time zones is the way in to everywhere else on the site.