AEST is UTC+10:00. Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra use AEST in the southern winter and AEDT in the southern summer.
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Australian Eastern Time is inverted relative to the northern hemisphere: daylight saving falls in December–April. Queensland (Brisbane) stays on AEST all year. This page uses Australia/Sydney. Perth uses Australian Western Standard Time instead.
The offset shown above is computed from Australia/Sydney at page render time using Intl.DateTimeFormat. It can change when daylight saving starts or ends.
New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, and the ACT observe AEDT (UTC+11:00) in the warmer months. Queensland does not.
Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) uses the IANA identifier Australia/Sydney. AEST is UTC+10:00. Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra use AEST in the southern winter and AEDT in the southern summer.
Right now Australian Eastern Standard Time is UTC+10:00. The live abbreviation reported by the timezone database is GMT+10.
Standard time is in effect. Standard time is labeled AEST and daylight time is labeled AEDT. Dates are taken from IANA data, not hardcoded on this site.
Use the converter with Australia/Sydney as the source zone, or open the Time Zone Converter and pick a city that uses AEST. Offsets update automatically when daylight saving begins or ends.