Time in Adelaide
Australia · Australia/Adelaide · latitude -34.93°
Reading your clock…
Adelaide changes its clocks twice a year
Standard time is UTC+09:30 and daylight saving time is UTC+10:30. The shift is 1 hour, and it is the reason the distance between Adelaide and anywhere else is not a single number.
| Date | Local time | Change | New offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday, 4 October 2026 | 02:00 → 03:00 | Forward 60 min | UTC+10:30 |
| Sunday, 4 April 2027 | 03:00 → 02:00 | Back 60 min | UTC+09:30 |
| Sunday, 3 October 2027 | 02:00 → 03:00 | Forward 60 min | UTC+10:30 |
Time difference from Adelaide
Where a range is shown, the gap genuinely changes during the year. That is not rounding or hedging — it is two governments moving their clocks on different weekends.
| City | Difference now | Across the year |
|---|---|---|
| London | 8 hours 30 minutes behind | −10h30 / −9h30 / −8h30 |
| New York | 13 hours 30 minutes behind | −15h30 / −14h30 / −13h30 |
| Los Angeles | 16 hours 30 minutes behind | −18h30 / −17h30 / −16h30 |
| Chicago | 14 hours 30 minutes behind | −16h30 / −15h30 / −14h30 |
| Toronto | 13 hours 30 minutes behind | −15h30 / −14h30 / −13h30 |
| Paris | 7 hours 30 minutes behind | −9h30 / −8h30 / −7h30 |
| Berlin | 7 hours 30 minutes behind | −9h30 / −8h30 / −7h30 |
| Dubai | 5 hours 30 minutes behind | −6h30 / −5h30 |
| Mumbai | 4 hours behind | −5h / −4h |
| Singapore | 1 hour 30 minutes behind | −2h30 / −1h30 |
| Hong Kong | 1 hour 30 minutes behind | −2h30 / −1h30 |
| Tokyo | 30 minutes behind | −1h30 / −0h30 |
| Sydney | 30 minutes ahead | constant |
| Auckland | 2 hours 30 minutes ahead | +2h30 / +3h30 |
| São Paulo | 12 hours 30 minutes behind | −13h30 / −12h30 |
| UTC | 9 hours 30 minutes behind | −10h30 / −9h30 |
Daylight in Adelaide through the year
From about 9.8 hours in June to 14.5 hours in December. This is the part a plain clock leaves out: 17:00 is a bright evening in one month and long dark in another.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 05:07 | 19:15 | 14h 8m |
| February | 05:39 | 18:49 | 13h 10m |
| March | 06:04 | 18:12 | 12h 8m |
| April | 06:28 | 17:30 | 11h 2m |
| May | 06:51 | 17:02 | 10h 11m |
| June | 07:08 | 16:56 | 9h 48m |
| July | 07:03 | 17:10 | 10h 7m |
| August | 06:35 | 17:33 | 10h 58m |
| September | 05:53 | 17:55 | 12h 2m |
| October | 05:12 | 18:19 | 13h 7m |
| November | 04:44 | 18:50 | 14h 6m |
| December | 04:43 | 19:14 | 14h 31m |
Daylight length is accurate. The clock times of sunrise and sunset assume each city sits at the centre of its time zone, which can put them up to about an hour and a quarter out for places near a zone's edge — Madrid being the standard example. Day length is unaffected.
Questions
About time in Adelaide
What time zone is Adelaide in?
Adelaide uses the IANA time zone Australia/Adelaide, which is UTC+09:30 in standard time and UTC+10:30 while daylight saving is in force.
Does Adelaide observe daylight saving time?
Yes. Clocks in Adelaide move by 1 hour, and the next change is on Sunday, 4 October 2026.
Why does the time difference to Adelaide keep changing?
Because the two places do not change their clocks on the same weekend, and in opposite hemispheres they change in opposite directions. London is a clear example: it sits 10 hours 30 minutes behind, then 9 hours 30 minutes behind, then 8 hours 30 minutes behind across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Adelaide get?
Around 14.5 hours at the longest, in December, and about 9.8 hours at the shortest, in June. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Adelaide's latitude of -34.93° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.