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Tasmania, Australia

Tasmania follows Australian Eastern Standard Time, UTC+10, and changes to Australian Eastern Daylight Time, UTC+11, during daylight saving. Hobart, Launceston, Devonport and Burnie all use the same statewide civil time.

Hobart, Australia

Friday, 4 September 2026

UTC+10 · Australia/Hobart

Time and sun data for Hobart — the largest city of Tasmania

The sun in Hobart

Sunrise 06:34 Solar noon 12:11 Sunset 17:48 Daylight 11 h 14 min Night 12 h 46 min Civil twilight 06:06 – 18:17

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Current time in Tasmania, Australia

Tasmania’s current offset is seasonal. The state advances its clocks during the daylight-saving period and returns to standard time afterward. A live clock tied to Hobart or the Australia/Hobart time-zone identifier can account for those transitions without manual arithmetic.

The island state commonly shares its clock with Victoria and New South Wales, since those jurisdictions also use eastern time and observe daylight saving. Exact comparisons should still be made for the date concerned rather than assumed from a present-day clock display.

In Tasmania, the wall clock changes at once; the long summer evening arrives rather more patiently.

Eastern standard and daylight time

On standard time, Tasmania is ten hours ahead of UTC. On daylight time, it is eleven hours ahead. The familiar abbreviations are AEST and AEDT, but a city-based label is safer when arranging an event months in advance because it preserves the seasonal rules.

Use Hobart as the principal reference city. Standard time is UTC+10. Daylight time is UTC+11. The whole state follows the official seasonal clock change. Future appointments should carry a named time zone rather than a fixed offset.

Queensland provides a useful contrast. It uses eastern standard time all year and does not move to daylight time. Hobart and Brisbane can therefore show the same hour during Tasmania’s standard-time period but differ when Tasmania’s daylight-saving arrangement is active.

Urban centres and island daylight

Hobart is Tasmania’s capital and largest city. Launceston is the other principal city, while Devonport and Burnie are significant centres on the northern coast. Kingston and Glenorchy form part of the broader urban pattern around Hobart. Each follows the same official clock.

Tasmania’s southerly position gives it pronounced seasonal changes in day length. Summer days are longer, while winter brings shorter periods of daylight. Sunrise also varies from east to west, so Hobart’s time is not interchangeable with a listing for Burnie or another distant locality.

For practical use, consult sunrise data attached to the nearest town and the intended date. Hills, buildings and the direction of the local horizon influence when direct sunlight becomes visible, even when an astronomical sunrise time is calculated correctly for the coordinates.

Questions and answers
Does Tasmania put its clocks forward?
Yes. Tasmania uses Australian Eastern Daylight Time during its daylight-saving period.
Does all of Tasmania share one time zone?
Yes. Its cities and regional communities use the same official civil time.
Why does winter sunrise feel so different from summer sunrise?
Tasmania’s latitude produces a strong seasonal variation in both sunrise timing and total daylight.

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