Sydney uses Australian Eastern Time, AEST or AEDT, on a southern-hemisphere daylight-saving calendar.
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New South Wales observes daylight saving; Queensland does not. In the Australian summer Sydney can be three hours ahead of Perth and one hour ahead of Brisbane. Convert with Australia/Sydney rather than a generic “AEST” label in January.
Sydney uses Australia/Sydney. The current offset is UTC+10:00. Clocks on this page update from that IANA zone rather than from the server’s local time.
Sydney, Australia is in Australian Eastern Standard Time (Australia/Sydney). Sydney uses Australian Eastern Time, AEST or AEDT, on a southern-hemisphere daylight-saving calendar.
Standard time is in effect New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, and the ACT observe AEDT (UTC+11:00) in the warmer months. Queensland does not.
At this moment the offset difference is +00:00 hours relative to UTC labels, meaning Sydney compared with Melbourne can be converted in the time zone converter using Australia/Sydney and Australia/Melbourne. Daylight saving on either side is applied automatically.