Current Time in Darwin, Australia
Time and Sun Facts for Darwin
- Local time
- 7:16 am
- Date
- Sunday, 25 October 2026
- Time zone
Australia/Darwin- UTC offset
- UTC+9:30
- Daylight saving
- Not observed here — the offset is the same all year
- Sunrise
- 6:16 am
- Sunset
- 6:44 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 28 minutes
- Coordinates
- -12.46, 130.84
How Darwin Keeps Time
Darwin keeps ACST, UTC+9:30. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Darwin; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.
Darwin runs on the Australia/Darwin zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC+9:30 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.
Darwin 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 Darwin at 6:16 am today and sets at 6:44 pm — 12 hours 28 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:30 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (-12.46, 130.84), so they shift a little every day of the year.
On the two solstices, Darwin has about 11 hours 24 minutes of daylight in June and 12 hours 51 minutes in December. The difference is about 1 hour 28 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.
At the current civil offset, Darwin’s longitude corresponds to a difference of about 47 minutes between zone time and longitude-based mean solar time. Today’s calculated solar noon is 12:30 pm rather than 12:00 on the clock.
ACST 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.
Darwin at a Glance
| Coordinates | -12.4600, 130.8400 |
|---|---|
| IANA time zone | Australia/Darwin |
| Current UTC offset | UTC+9:30 |
| Daylight saving | Not currently observed |
| Sunrise today | 6:16 am |
| Sunset today | 6:44 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:30 pm |
| Daylight today | 12 hours 28 minutes |
| Straight-line distance to Canberra | 3,134 km |
| Current clock difference vs Canberra | −1 hour 30 minutes |
How Darwin Compares with Other Cities
Read the last column as the other city relative to Darwin. 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 Darwin |
|---|---|---|
| London | 10:46 pm | 8 hours 30 minutes behind |
| New York | 5:46 pm | 13 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Los Angeles | 2:46 pm | 16 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Dubai | 1:46 am | 5 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Karachi | 2:46 am | 4 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Singapore | 5:46 am | 1 hour 30 minutes behind |
| Tokyo | 6:46 am | 30 minutes behind |
| Sydney | 8:46 am | 1 hour 30 minutes ahead |
Nearby Listed Cities to Darwin
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cairns | 1,680 km | 7:46 am |
| Adelaide | 2,618 km | 8:16 am |
| Perth | 2,653 km | 5:46 am |
| Brisbane | 2,848 km | 7:46 am |
| Gold Coast | 2,911 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
Why is Darwin not on a whole-hour UTC offset?
This zone is 30 minutes beyond a whole hour. Use UTC+9:30 or the IANA zone name for conversions instead of rounding it.
Is Darwin 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 Darwin 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 12:30 pm.
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