Time in Melbourne now:
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9–17 in Melbourne vs UTC
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- Christmas Day25 Dec 2026
- Boxing Day26 Dec 2026
- Boxing Day (substitute day)28 Dec 2026
- New Year's Day1 Jan 2027
- Australia Day26 Jan 2027
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About Melbourne
Home to roughly 5,078,193 residents, Melbourne is a populous capital of commerce in Australia. The city sits at 31 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
The Australia/Melbourne zone governs civic time in Melbourne; this identifier is the canonical reference used by every operating system on Earth. The temperate, southern-hemisphere setting at -37.81° 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 Melbourne'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 Melbourne
The current local time in Melbourne, Australia is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Melbourne uses the IANA time zone Australia/Melbourne, currently UTC+11.
Whether Melbourne observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Australia/Melbourne) is the source of truth.
Melbourne is currently 16 hours ahead of New York.
Melbourne is currently 11 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Melbourne are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (-37.8136, 144.9631).
Australia uses the AUD currency and the +61 international dialing code.
Melbourne sits at -37.8136° S, 144.9631° E, 31 m above sea level, in Australia.