Time in Darwin
Australia · Australia/Darwin · latitude -12.46°
Reading your clock…
Darwin never changes its clocks
Darwin stays on UTC+09:30 all year round. This is worth being careful about rather than relaxed about: the gap between Darwin and a city that does observe daylight saving still moves twice a year, because the other end moved. A recurring call can drift by an hour without anything changing here at all.
Time difference from Darwin
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 | −9h30 / −8h30 |
| New York | 13 hours 30 minutes behind | −14h30 / −13h30 |
| Los Angeles | 16 hours 30 minutes behind | −17h30 / −16h30 |
| Chicago | 14 hours 30 minutes behind | −15h30 / −14h30 |
| Toronto | 13 hours 30 minutes behind | −14h30 / −13h30 |
| Paris | 7 hours 30 minutes behind | −8h30 / −7h30 |
| Berlin | 7 hours 30 minutes behind | −8h30 / −7h30 |
| Dubai | 5 hours 30 minutes behind | constant |
| Mumbai | 4 hours behind | constant |
| Singapore | 1 hour 30 minutes behind | constant |
| Hong Kong | 1 hour 30 minutes behind | constant |
| Tokyo | 30 minutes behind | constant |
| Sydney | 30 minutes ahead | +0h30 / +1h30 |
| Auckland | 2 hours 30 minutes ahead | +2h30 / +3h30 |
| São Paulo | 12 hours 30 minutes behind | constant |
| UTC | 9 hours 30 minutes behind | constant |
Daylight in Darwin through the year
From about 11.4 hours in June to 12.9 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 | 05:49 | 18:33 | 12h 44m |
| February | 06:01 | 18:28 | 12h 27m |
| March | 06:05 | 18:12 | 12h 7m |
| April | 06:06 | 17:52 | 11h 46m |
| May | 06:12 | 17:42 | 11h 30m |
| June | 06:20 | 17:44 | 11h 24m |
| July | 06:22 | 17:51 | 11h 29m |
| August | 06:12 | 17:56 | 11h 44m |
| September | 05:51 | 17:56 | 12h 5m |
| October | 05:32 | 17:58 | 12h 26m |
| November | 05:25 | 18:09 | 12h 44m |
| December | 05:32 | 18:24 | 12h 52m |
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 Darwin
What time zone is Darwin in?
Darwin uses the IANA time zone Australia/Darwin, a fixed UTC+09:30 with no daylight saving.
Does Darwin observe daylight saving time?
No. Darwin stays on UTC+09:30 all year. That does not mean the gap between Darwin and other cities is fixed, though: when a city that does observe daylight saving changes its clocks, the difference between you and them moves even though nothing changed here.
Why does the time difference to Darwin 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 9 hours 30 minutes behind, then 8 hours 30 minutes behind across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Darwin get?
Around 12.9 hours at the longest, in December, and about 11.4 hours at the shortest, in June. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Darwin's latitude of -12.46° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.