Cairns in numbers
- Coordinates
- -16.9027, 145.7530
- Population
- 153 075
- Region
- Queensland
- Country
- Australia, Oceania
- Capital
- Canberra — 2071 km away
- Same name
- 2 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Use this page to see what time it is in Cairns, Queensland, Australia — the Australia/Brisbane zone applies there (+10).
Cairns, Australia
Sunday, 18 October 2026
UTC+10 · Australia/Brisbane
Local time in Cairns
UTC+10 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Cairns, Queensland.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:48 AM Solar noon 12:03 PM Sunset 6:18 PM Daylight 12 h 30 min Night 11 h 30 min Civil twilight 5:26 AM – 6:40 PM
Weather in Cairns right now
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Cairns and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 4870
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 Queensland
- Brisbane 2 780 063
- Gold Coast 640 778
- Sunshine Coast 398 840
- Logan City 345 098
- Townsville 201 313
- Toowoomba 142 163
Other places named Cairns
Same time zone — Australia/Brisbane
- Brisbane Australia
- Gold Coast Australia
Nearby places
- Edge Hill — 0.4 km
- Cairns North — 0.5 km
- Manunda — 1.7 km
- Whitfield — 2.3 km
- Manoora — 2.3 km
- Aeroglen — 2.6 km
Cairns: clock, sun and surroundings
The zone in force in Cairns is Australia/Brisbane, with an offset of UTC+10. Seasonal change: No.
For Cairns today, sunrise is 5:48 AM and sunset is 6:18 PM. Daylight lasts 12 h 30 min.
Anyone in Edge Hill or Cairns North reads the same clock as Cairns.
1 distinct postal codes apply to Cairns.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is Cairns in?
- Cairns is in the Australia/Brisbane time zone, with an offset of +10.
- Is daylight saving time part of the local schedule in Cairns?
- Daylight saving time in Cairns: No.
- How early in the evening does the sun set in Cairns?
- It sets at 6:18 PM.