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Australia daylight saving time 2025

On Sunday, April 6, Australia turned the clock back one hour, at 3:00 am it was 2:00 am. Daylight Saving Time Ended. More info.
The Clock time is updated with the time change, along with the time zone and summer or winter symbols. + info. 24 hour clock format. World Time Map
Daylight saving time (DST) and current time zone, on Australia map clocks . Australia begins the time change by Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, followed by the 3 states of Australia: New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania to finish with South Australia.
Australian States and Territories by time zones with current time zone
Western Australia South Australia
Perth Adelaide
Standard time +8
No daylight saving		 Standard time +9:30
Daylight saving +10:30
Albany *Broken Hill ← NSW
Bunbury Gawler
Busselton Mount Barker
Geraldton Mount Gambier
Kalgoorlie-Boulder Murray Bridge
Karratha *Broken Hill belongs to NSW
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Northern Territory
Broome
Carnarvon
Colie Darwin
Standard time +8
No daylight saving		 Standard time +9:30
No daylight saving
Derby Alice Springs
Dunsborough Katherine
Esperance Maningrida
Northam Nhulunbuy
Yanchep Tennant Creek
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Western Australia does not use daylight saving time.
All year round, UTC +8h standard time. See time zones		 Northern Territory and South Australia use Australia Central Time, although only South Australia uses daylight saving. See time zones
Capital Territory
 
Canberra Capital de Australia  
Standard time +10
Daylight saving +11		  
New South Wales Victoria
Sydney Melbourne
Standard time +10
Daylight saving +11		 Standard time +10
Daylight saving +11
Albury Ballarat
Central Coast Bendigo
Maitland Geelong
Newcastle Melton
Wollongong Shepparton
   
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Queensland 		Tasmania
Brisbane Hobart
Standard time +10
No daylight saving		 Standard time +10
Daylight saving +11
Cairns Burnie
Gold Coast Currie
Sunshine Coast Devonport
Toowoomba Launceston
Townsville Ulverstone
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New South Wales and Queensland both use Australia Eastern Time, although only New South Wales uses daylight saving. See time zones Victoria - Capital Territory and Tasmania use Australia Eastern Time, and daylight saving. See time zones
New Zealand
Wellington Chatham Islands
Auckland Most populous city Waitangi
Standard time +12
Daylight saving +13		 Standard time +12:45
Daylight saving +13:45
Eucla (Southwest Australia)
Eucla
UTC = std +8:45
No daylight saving
Lord Howe Island (East of Australia)
Lord Howe
UTC = std +10:30
UTC = dst +11:00
Norfolk Island (East of Australia)
Norfolk (Kingston)
UTC = std +11:00
UTC = dst +12:00

Australia time zones with current time - map

There are 5 time zones, in Australia from west to east: Western Australian Time (Perth)- Western Central Australian Time (Eucla) - Central Australian Time, North (Darwin) & South (Adelaide) ) - Eastern Australian Time (Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart) - Lord Howe Time. Clock symbol info
Australia time zones - 24 hour clock format
Western Australia South Australia
Western Standard T. Current Central Time
Perth Adelaide
AWST = std +8
No daylight saving		 ACST = std +9:30
ACDT= dst +10:30
Central Western Northern Territory
Eucla Standard T. Central Standard Time
Eucla Darwin
UTC = std +8:45
No daylight saving		 ACST = std +9:30
No daylight saving
Australia Time Zone map - current time
AWST: Australian Western Standard Time
ACWST: Aust. Central W. Std Time (Eucla)
ACST: Australian Central Standard Time
AEST: Australian Eastern Standard Time
LHST: Lord Howe Standard Time
Large cities in Australia by Territories
New South Wales Victoria
Current Eastern time Current Eastern time
Sydney Melbourne
AEST = std +10
AEDT=daylight +11		 AEST = std +10
AEDT = daylight +11
Queensland Tasmania
Eastern Standard T. Current Eastern Time
Brisbane Hobart
AEST = std +10
No daylight saving		 AEST = std +10
AEDT = daylight +11
 
Lord Howe Island
Note: Lord Howe only turns the clock forward and back 30 minutes, and ends DST at 2:00 instead of 3:00. See daylight saving Lord Howe Time
Lord Howe
UTC = std +10:30
UTC = dst +11:00
Australia, observe Daylight Saving Time in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory, Lord Howe Island, and Norfolk Island. Places east of Australia, also use daylight saving time: New Zealand and Chatham Islands. Australia Map

Daylight saving time is not observed in Queensland, the Northern Territory, Western Australia, Christmas Island or the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

Adding 3 Australian dependencies, Cocos Islands - Christmas Island - and Norfolk Island, Australia spans a total of 8 Time Zones.

Locations of Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Chritsmas Island on this map of Australia.
Norfolk Island is located to the east of Australia. See time zone map of Australia.
Current Local Time in Cocos Islands and Chritsmas Island.
External link about Christmas Island /Cocos Islands
3 Australian dependencies
Cocos Islands Time
Cocos Islands
UTC = standard +6:30
No daylight saving
Christmas Island Time
Christmas Island
UTC = standard +7:00
No daylight saving
Norfolk Island Time
Norfolk (Kingston)
UTC = standard +11:00
UTC = daylight +12:00

During the daylight saving time, there are 2 more time zones in Australia, as neither Western Australia nor Queensland advance the clock time, although in reality, as Lord Howe Island advances the clock only 1/2 hour, it equates the time zone Eastern Australia's with UTC +11 hours, which represents only 1 more time zone in summer compared to winter time, which gives a total of 5 + 1 = 6 time zones, counting all the states that are with summer and winter time. In addition to the other 3 different time zones of the Australian dependencies.

The letters S (standard) and D (daylight), are the acronyms that show the current period of the time zone.
For example, AEST Australian Eastern Standard Time / AEDT Australian Eastern Daylight Time, more summer / winter symbols, which appear next to the clock time.

Time change Australia 2025

Only these territories in Australia use daylight saving time: South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, *Lord Howe Island (30'), and Norfolk Island.

The first Sunday, April 6 at 3:00 am Australia turns the clock back 1 hour.
The first Sunday, October 5 at 2:00 am Australia turns the clock forward 1 hour.

*Lord Howe Island
The first Sunday, April 6 at 2:00 am Lord Howe turns the clock back 0:30 hours.
The first Sunday, October 5 at 2:00 am Lord Howe turns the clock forward 0:30 hours

Australia daylight saving 2025
Ends - 1h Starts + 1h
April - 6 Sun.
3:00 → 2:00		 Oct - 5 Sun.
2:00 → 3:00
1st Sunday April, at 3:00 a.m., Australia turns the clock back 1 hour 1st Sunday October, at 2:00 a.m., Australia turns the clock forward 1 hour
Lord Howe daylight saving 2025
Ends - 0:30' Starts + 0:30'
April - 6 Sun.
2:00 → 1:30		 Oct - 5 Sun.
2:00 → 2:30
1st Sunday April, at 2:00 a.m., Lord Howe turns the clock back half an hour 1st Sunday October, at 2:00 a.m., Lord Howe turns the clock forward half an hour

Daylight Savings Australia

The Australian Territories that use daylight saving time are New South Wales (Sydney), South Australia (Adelaide), Victoria (Melbourne), Tasmania (Hobart), *Lord Howe Island (30'), Norfolk Island.

Territories of Australia without daylight saving time all year

The Australian Territories that do not use daylight saving time throughout the year are Western Australia (Perth), including Eucla in southwestern Australia, Northern Territory (Darwin), and Queensland (Brisbane). All these territories are permanently indicated by the symbol on the clock.

Some places near Australia map, which also use daylight saving time: New Zealand and Chatham Islands

Time Zone exceptions in Australia

* Broken Hill located in western New south Wales, uses the same time zone and time change as South Australia.
* Eucla, located in the southwest of Australia, uses an intermediate time between Western Australia and South Australia, maintaining the same UTC +8h.45' time zone throughout the year.

* Lord Howe Island, about 600 km. east of the continent of Australia, just move the clock forward or backward 00:30 minutes instead of 1 hour. (During daylight saving time, because it moves the clock forward only half an hour, it adjusts to the same time zone as New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania).
On the other hand, Lord Howe turns the clock back at 2:00 instead of 3:00, 1 hour earlier than the rest of Australia.

*2 time zones *Time change exception Capital Capital Most populous city Most populous city Capital of the country Capital of the country

Clocks symbols:

Daylight Saving Time Daylight Saving Time. Standard or winter time UTC standard time, or winter time. No Daylight Saving Time No Daylight Saving Time throughout the year. 24 hour clock format

Clocks and symbols (daylight saving - winter) updated in real time as the time changes in different Australia time zones.

Time zones of continents and countries
New Caledonia (France), Current local Time, No Daylight Saving Lord Howe Island, Current local Time and Daylight Saving Norfolk Island, Current local Time and Daylight Saving New Zealand, Oceania, Current local time and Daylight Saving