Palmerston in numbers
- Coordinates
- -12.4860, 130.9830
- Population
- 33 695
- Region
- Northern Territory
- Country
- Australia, Oceania
- Capital
- Canberra — 3123 km away
- Same name
- 6 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Palmerston, Northern Territory, Australia
This page shows local time in Palmerston, Northern Territory, Australia as of this moment, in the Australia/Darwin zone (+9:30).
Palmerston, Australia
Wednesday, 4 November 2026
UTC+9:30 · Australia/Darwin
Local time in Palmerston
UTC+9:30 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Palmerston.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:13 AM Solar noon 12:31 PM Sunset 6:48 PM Daylight 12 h 35 min Night 11 h 25 min Civil twilight 5:51 AM – 7:10 PM
Weather in Palmerston right now
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Palmerston and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 0830
- 0831
- 2913
- 4860
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in Northern Territory
- Darwin 139 902
- Alice Springs 25 912
- Howard Springs 6 852
- Katherine 5 980
- Karama 4 894
- Leanyer 4 557
Other places named Palmerston
- Palmerston Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- Palmerston Otago, New Zealand
- Palmerston Palmerston, Cook Islands
- Palmerston Ontario, Canada
- Palmerston Leinster, Ireland
Nearby places
- Gray — 0.5 km
- Palmerston City — 0.8 km
- Driver — 0.9 km
- Gunn — 1.1 km
- Yarrawonga — 1.4 km
- Bakewell — 1.6 km
Time and daylight in Palmerston
Neighbours of Palmerston such as Gray and Palmerston City share its clock.
4 postal codes have been allocated to Palmerston.
Clocks in Palmerston take Australia/Darwin as their zone, reading UTC+9:30. Daylight saving time applies: No.
Sunrise today is 6:13 AM in Palmerston, with sunset at 6:48 PM. That works out to 12 h 35 min of light.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone value belongs to Palmerston?
- The time zone value for Palmerston is Australia/Darwin, with an offset of +9:30.
- Is summer time in effect in Palmerston at some point in the year?
- Daylight saving observed in Palmerston: No.
- What are sunrise and sunset in Palmerston today?
- Sunrise 6:13 AM, sunset 6:48 PM.