Current Time in Gold Coast, Australia
Time and Sun Facts for Gold Coast
- Local time
- 7:26 am
- Date
- Sunday, 25 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
- 6:00 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 59 minutes
- Coordinates
- -28.02, 153.40
How Gold Coast Keeps Time
Gold Coast keeps AEST, UTC+10. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Gold Coast; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.
Gold Coast 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 Gold Coast at 5:01 am today and sets at 6:00 pm — 12 hours 59 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 11:30 am. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (-28.02, 153.40), so they shift a little every day of the year.
On the two solstices, Gold Coast has about 10 hours 22 minutes of daylight in June and 13 hours 55 minutes in December. The difference is about 3 hours 33 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.
Gold Coast at a Glance
| Coordinates | -28.0200, 153.4000 |
|---|---|
| IANA time zone | Australia/Brisbane |
| Current UTC offset | UTC+10 |
| Daylight saving | Not currently observed |
| Sunrise today | 5:01 am |
| Sunset today | 6:00 pm |
| Solar noon | 11:30 am |
| Daylight today | 12 hours 59 minutes |
| Straight-line distance to Canberra | 903 km |
| Current clock difference vs Canberra | −1 hour |
How Gold Coast Compares with Other Cities
Read the last column as the other city relative to Gold Coast. 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 Gold Coast |
|---|---|---|
| London | 10:26 pm | 9 hours behind |
| New York | 5:26 pm | 14 hours behind |
| Los Angeles | 2:26 pm | 17 hours behind |
| Dubai | 1:26 am | 6 hours behind |
| Karachi | 2:26 am | 5 hours behind |
| Singapore | 5:26 am | 2 hours behind |
| Tokyo | 6:26 am | 1 hour behind |
| Sydney | 8:26 am | 1 hour ahead |
Nearby Listed Cities to Gold Coast
Distances are straight-line geographic distances between the coordinates used by the directory; road or rail distances will be longer.
Other Cities in Australia
Australia keeps more than one zone, so these do not all read the same.
Questions People Ask
Is Gold Coast 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.
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