Current time in Darwin, Australia
The current local time in Darwin is shown below. Darwin observes ACST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Darwin does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
What's the timezone history of Darwin?
Darwin keeps Australian Central Standard Time at UTC+9:30, one of the world's handful of half-hour offsets, shared with the city of Adelaide far to the south. Unlike South Australia, though, the Northern Territory does not observe daylight saving, so while Adelaide springs forward to UTC+10:30 over the southern summer, Darwin holds to UTC+9:30 all year. The tropical latitude, around twelve degrees south, gives the city little seasonal change in daylight and instead a sharp division between a wet and a dry season.
What are the working hours in Darwin?
Government, defence, mining and energy, and trade with South-East Asia anchor the economy, with the port and a growing role in liquefied natural gas. The working day runs broadly 08:00 to 16:30 on weekdays, often starting early to use the cooler part of the tropical morning. The build-up to the wet season, with its rising humidity, shapes the rhythm of the year as much as the calendar does. The main closures follow the Australian national holidays, alongside the territory's own Picnic Day in August.
Where is Darwin?
Darwin is the capital of Australia's Northern Territory, a tropical port city on the Timor Sea at the far northern edge of the continent. The metropolitan area holds around 150,000 people, a small, remote capital separated from the rest of urban Australia by vast distances of outback. Closer to Jakarta and the islands of Indonesia than to Sydney or Melbourne, it has long been Australia's gateway to South-East Asia, with a notably multicultural population reflecting those ties.