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9–17 in Sydney vs UTC
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- Father's Day6 Sept 2026
- Christmas Day25 Dec 2026
- Boxing Day26 Dec 2026
- Boxing Day (substitute day)28 Dec 2026
- New Year's Day1 Jan 2027
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About Sydney
Home to roughly 5,312,163 residents, Sydney is a major metropolitan hub in Australia. Its terrain rests around 58 m of elevation.
For computers and clocks, Sydney is anchored to the Australia/Sydney time zone, which encodes the city's daylight saving rules going back to the early 20th century. The subtropical, southern-hemisphere setting at -33.87° latitude defines its day-length swing across the year — long summer evenings and shorter winter days.
Australia's currency is AUD and its calling prefix is +61. This page exposes Sydney's exact local time alongside sunrise, sunset, public holidays, and a structured-data feed at the JSON link below — useful for spreadsheets, scheduling tools, and AI assistants alike.
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Questions about time in Sydney
The current local time in Sydney, Australia is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Sydney uses the IANA time zone Australia/Sydney, currently UTC+10.
Whether Sydney observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Australia/Sydney) is the source of truth.
Sydney is currently 14 hours ahead of New York.
Sydney is currently 9 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Sydney are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (-33.8688, 151.2093).
Australia uses the AUD currency and the +61 international dialing code.
Sydney sits at -33.8688° S, 151.2093° E, 58 m above sea level, in Australia.