Time in Melbourne
It is 12:25 on Thursday, 17 September 2026 in Melbourne. Melbourne is in Australia. Civil time uses the IANA zone Australia/Melbourne at +10:00 from UTC (not in effect). Use the live clock below for the current local time, then jump to a difference or conversion when you need meeting math.
Melbourne keeps Australia/Melbourne, a separate IANA zone from Sydney even though both currently switch between UTC+10:00 and UTC+11:00 on the same Australian daylight-saving calendar.
Corporate hours commonly sit near 09:00–17:00. Treat Melbourne as its own zone in calendars rather than copying Sydney’s identifier — rule changes have diverged before and software stores the id, not the city name.
Australia/Melbourne is not an alias of Australia/Sydney. They currently share offsets, but Victorian and NSW legislatures have diverged before. Store the city’s own id.
Melbourne time zone
- UTC offset
- UTC+10:00
- IANA
- Australia/Melbourne
- DST
- not in effect
Daylight saving in Melbourne
Melbourne is currently on its standard offset. Clocks in Melbourne next go forward on 4 October 2026 at 03:00 local time, moving from UTC+10:00 to UTC+11:00.
Daylight in Melbourne today
The sun rises at 06:17 and sets at 18:11, giving 11 h 54 m of daylight. Solar noon falls at 12:14, 15 minutes after the clock reads twelve, because Melbourne sits west of the 150° E meridian its current offset is built on.
- Sunrise
- 06:17
- Sunset
- 18:11
- Daylight
- 11 h 54 m
- Solar noon
- 12:14Solar noon is when the sun sits highest in the sky. It drifts from clock noon across a time zone, which is why one clock can span very different days.
Best time to call Melbourne
Overlap between a 09:00–17:00 working day in Melbourne and the same hours in other major cities.
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About Melbourne
- Population
- 5,350,705The administrative city figure recorded by Wikidata. The surrounding urban area is larger.
- Region
- Victoria
- Coordinates
- 37.8142° S, 144.9631° ELatitude is what drives the sunrise and sunset times above.
- Currency
- Australian Dollar (AUD)
- Calling code
- +61Dial this after your international access prefix, and check the overlap table above before you call.
- Languages
- English
- Airports
- MELMelbourneArrival and departure boards at these airports quote Melbourne local time, not the time where you booked.
Frequently asked questions about time in Melbourne
- What time is it in Melbourne right now?
- It is 12:25 in Melbourne as this page was generated, and the clock above keeps ticking in your browser. Melbourne uses the IANA zone Australia/Melbourne, currently +10:00.
- Which time zone is Melbourne in?
- Melbourne uses Australia/Melbourne, which is currently +10:00. Always store the identifier rather than the offset — the offset changes with daylight saving, the identifier does not.
- Does Melbourne observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. Melbourne shifts its clocks during the year, so the difference to cities that do not change moves by an hour twice a year.
- Is Melbourne ahead of or behind UTC?
- Melbourne is currently at +10:00. When it is 12:00 UTC, the local time in Melbourne is 22:00.