Cairns City in numbers
- Coordinates
- -16.9207, 145.7740
- Population
- 6 839
- Region
- Queensland
- Country
- Australia, Oceania
- Capital
- Canberra — 2069 km away
What time is it in Cairns City, Queensland, Australia
This page holds the current clock reading for Cairns City, Queensland, Australia, in the Australia/Brisbane time zone (+10).
Cairns City, Australia
Saturday, 7 November 2026
UTC+10 · Australia/Brisbane
Local time in Cairns City
UTC+10 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Cairns City.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:38 AM Solar noon 12:02 PM Sunset 6:26 PM Daylight 12 h 48 min Night 11 h 12 min Civil twilight 5:15 AM – 6:48 PM
Weather in Cairns City right now
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Cairns City 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
- Cairns 153 075
Same time zone — Australia/Brisbane
- Brisbane Australia
- Gold Coast Australia
Nearby places
- Parramatta Park — 1.0 km
- Portsmith — 2.3 km
- Westcourt — 2.5 km
- Cairns North — 2.6 km
- Manunda — 2.7 km
- Bungalow — 2.8 km
Local time details for Cairns City
Both Parramatta Park and Portsmith are near Cairns City and keep its time.
The number of postal codes covering Cairns City is 1.
The local zone in Cairns City is Australia/Brisbane, standing at UTC+10. Whether daylight saving applies: No.
Sunrise arrives in Cairns City at 5:38 AM today and the sun goes down at 6:26 PM. That gives the day 12 h 48 min of light.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone contains Cairns City?
- Cairns City is in Australia/Brisbane, which has an offset of +10.
- Does Cairns City adjust its clocks for part of the year?
- No.
- Do you know the time of sunrise in Cairns City?
- Yes, it is 5:38 AM.