The time in Melbourne
2:02 PM. Friday 30 October.
It is 2:02 PM in Melbourne — Friday 30 October 2026, AEDT (UTC+11).
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Where you are
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Your own clock, worked out when the page opens.
Sunrise
6:16 AM
13 h 37 min of daylight.
Sunset
7:53 PM
Golden hour from 7:17 PM.
The next change
4 Apr
AEDT to AEST: the clocks go back an hour. Sunset moves from 7:12 PM to 6:10 PM.
The light in Melbourne now.
You stand at the middle of Melbourne’s horizon. The dots are the sun’s path today. Walk the hours, or drag the sky to turn it.
How it knows.
The browser’s own tables
Every time here is read from the zone tables your browser carries, the IANA database by its zone id (America/Los_Angeles, not “Pacific”), never from an offset typed by hand. A zone’s name is what the tables say for the moment asked: PDT in a Pacific summer, PST in its winter.
Hours the clocks change
A clock change removes an hour in spring and repeats one in autumn. Both are reported rather than moved: an hour that does not exist is named, with the time the clock reads instead, and an hour that happens twice is given both ways.
The light beside the clock
An hour alone says nothing about the sky, so each clock stands beside its day’s light, worked out for the city from the sun’s position. The pages are rebuilt every night, and every time is worked out again in your browser when the page opens.
Other clocks.
New YorkEDT · UTC−4 LondonGMT · UTC Pacific time, explainedPST or PDT, and whenEvery place, its own light.
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