Current Time in Melbourne

About time in Melbourne

Melbourne shares Australian Eastern Time with Sydney and changes its clocks on the same Southern Hemisphere schedule. It holds UTC+10 as AEST for most of the year and switches to UTC+11 as AEDT from around early October until early April, the local summer. Because this is opposite to Europe and the Americas, Melbourne is on daylight saving while the Northern Hemisphere is in winter. The city's busy financial and cultural sectors run on this Victorian clock alongside the rest of the eastern states.

Melbourne changes its clocks for daylight saving time, so its exact UTC offset depends on the season (UTC+10 (UTC+11 in summer)). The live clock above reads Melbourne's local time directly from the IANA time zone database in your browser, using the rules installed on your device. Keep your browser updated when regional rules change. To plan a call or convert a specific moment, use the timezone converter or meeting planner linked below.

Daylight in Melbourne through 2026

Melbourne sits at about 37.8°S, 145.0°E. The longest day of 2026 is December 18, with 14h 47m between sunrise and sunset. The shortest is June 21, with 9h 32m, a difference of 5 h 15 min. At this mid-latitude, winter evenings are dark early and summer evenings stay light well after a normal working day.

Because Melbourne is in the Southern Hemisphere, its long days fall in December and January and its short days in June. The earliest sunrise comes around December 3 (05:51) and the latest sunset around January 1 (20:45).

Solar noon, when the sun is highest, falls at about 13:27 local time in late March, 12:21 in late June and 13:17 in late December. In standard time the sun is highest at about 12:20 on average, close to 12:00, so the clock and the sun are well aligned in Melbourne. During daylight saving time everything moves an hour later on the clock.

Local clock times, including daylight saving where it applies. Calculated with the standard sunrise equation for the city centre; terrain and tall buildings can delay the visible sunrise.

Clock changes in Melbourne (2026–2027)

Melbourne changes its clocks twice in 2026. On a change night, the local time skips or repeats a block of time, and the gap to other cities shifts unless they change on the same date.

• Sunday, April 5, 2026: at 03:00 clocks go back one hour to 02:00 (UTC+11 → UTC+10).
• Sunday, October 4, 2026: at 02:00 clocks go forward one hour to 03:00 (UTC+10 → UTC+11).
• Sunday, April 4, 2027: at 03:00 clocks go back one hour to 02:00 (UTC+11 → UTC+10).
• Sunday, October 3, 2027: at 02:00 clocks go forward one hour to 03:00 (UTC+10 → UTC+11).

Recurring meetings set in Melbourne time stay at the same local hour; participants elsewhere see the meeting move by an hour for the weeks when only one side has changed.

Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled with this site’s build. Governments occasionally change rules at short notice; see our methodology.