Current Time in Perth, Australia
Time and Sun Facts for Perth
- Local time
- 5:26 am
- Date
- Sunday, 25 October 2026
- Time zone
Australia/Perth- UTC offset
- UTC+8
- Daylight saving
- Not observed here — the offset is the same all year
- Sunrise
- 5:26 am
- Sunset
- 6:34 pm
- Day length
- 13 hours 8 minutes
- Coordinates
- -31.95, 115.86
How Perth Keeps Time
Perth keeps AWST, UTC+8. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Perth; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.
Perth runs on the Australia/Perth zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC+8 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 Perth at 5:26 am today and sets at 6:34 pm — 13 hours 8 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:00 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (-31.95, 115.86), so they shift a little every day of the year.
On the two solstices, Perth has about 10 hours 3 minutes of daylight in June and 14 hours 14 minutes in December. The difference is about 4 hours 11 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.
AWST 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.
Perth at a Glance
| Coordinates | -31.9500, 115.8600 |
|---|---|
| IANA time zone | Australia/Perth |
| Current UTC offset | UTC+8 |
| Daylight saving | Not currently observed |
| Sunrise today | 5:26 am |
| Sunset today | 6:34 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:00 pm |
| Daylight today | 13 hours 8 minutes |
| Straight-line distance to Canberra | 3,089 km |
| Current clock difference vs Canberra | −3 hours |
How Perth Compares with Other Cities
Read the last column as the other city relative to Perth. 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 Perth |
|---|---|---|
| London | 10:26 pm | 7 hours behind |
| New York | 5:26 pm | 12 hours behind |
| Los Angeles | 2:26 pm | 15 hours behind |
| Dubai | 1:26 am | 4 hours behind |
| Karachi | 2:26 am | 3 hours behind |
| Singapore | 5:26 am | same time |
| Tokyo | 6:26 am | 1 hour ahead |
| Sydney | 8:26 am | 3 hours ahead |
Nearby Listed Cities to Perth
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 Perth 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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