Time in Hobart

About this time zone

Hobart is one of the 12 time zone areas of Australia. Computers and phones know it by the zone name Australia/Hobart. Its time is UTC+11 in January and UTC+10 in July, because the clocks are changed during the year. The short names used for this time are AEDT and AEST. Compared with India (IST), it is 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of India in January and 4 hours 30 minutes ahead of India in July.

Clock changes in 2026 and 2027

Hobart changes its clocks during the year. These are the changes for 2026 and 2027, worked out from the rules in the IANA time zone database.

Governments sometimes change these rules at short notice. Check an official source before fixing travel or meetings far ahead.

Counting from those dates, the clocks in Hobart stay forward for 182 days, from 4 October 2026 to 4 April 2027. That is about 26 weeks, or 50% of a year, on UTC+11 and the rest on UTC+10. The forward period runs across the new year, because summer in the southern half of the world falls in December and January.

Time difference with major cities

The table uses the offsets in force in mid January and mid July 2026. Use the converter for any other date.

Clock time and sun time in Hobart

A time zone is an agreement, and the sun does not follow it exactly. Hobart, the largest city in this zone, lies at about 147.3° east. Each degree of longitude is worth four minutes, so by the sun alone its time would be about 9 hours 49 minutes ahead of UTC. The clock is set to UTC+10. The sun is therefore highest in the sky at about 12:11 pm by the clock on standard time, and at about 1:11 pm while the clocks are moved (UTC+11). That is a close match: clock and sun agree to within a quarter of an hour. Other places in the zone, to the east or west of Hobart, see the sun peak a little earlier or later. Through the year the figure also drifts by up to a quarter of an hour either way.

How long the day is

Hobart is about 42.9° south of the equator. On the longest day of the year, around 21 December, the sun is up for about 15 hours 21 minutes. On the shortest, around 21 June, for about 9 hours 1 minute. That swing of about 6 hours 20 minutes between summer and winter is the reason clocks are moved here: the extra summer daylight is shifted from the early morning to the evening.

Office hours shared with other places

If both sides work from 9 am to 6 pm, these are the hours when a call falls inside the working day at both ends. Times are for Hobart.

• With India, in January: 2:30 pm to 6:00 pm here, which is 9:00 am to 12:30 pm in India (3 hours 30 minutes shared). In July: 1:30 pm to 6:00 pm here, which is 9:00 am to 1:30 pm in India (4 hours 30 minutes shared).
• With London, in January: no shared office hour: 9:00 am here is 10:00 pm in London, and 6:00 pm here is 7:00 am there, so one side has to start early or stay late. In July: no shared office hour: 9:00 am here is 12:00 am in London, and 6:00 pm here is 9:00 am there, so one side has to start early or stay late.
• With New York, in January: 9:00 am to 10:00 am here, which is 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm in New York (1 hour shared). In July: no shared office hour: 9:00 am here is 7:00 pm in New York, and 6:00 pm here is 4:00 am there, so one side has to start early or stay late.

How many people keep this time

The GeoNames list has 4 towns and cities of 15,000 people or more in this zone area, with about 392,000 people between them. People in villages and smaller towns are not in that count, so the true number on this clock is higher.

Cities that keep this time

The largest cities in this zone: Hobart, Launceston, Devonport, Burnie.

Places with exactly the same time

These zones show the same time as Hobart through the whole year: Melbourne, Australia, Sydney, Australia.

The clock above uses your device's clock and the time zone rules built into your browser. Rules on this page: IANA time zone database 2026f. See About and data sources.