Brisbane, Australia · UTC+10
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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, runs on Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10) year-round. Queensland does not observe daylight saving time. IANA timezone: Australia/Brisbane.
Brisbane is Queensland’s capital and Australia’s third-largest city. It runs on Australia/Brisbane: UTC+10, year-round. No daylight saving time. Queensland’s refusal to observe DST is one of Australia’s most persistent internal timezone disputes.
During summer, Sydney and Melbourne on the same meridional strip observe Eastern Daylight Time (UTC+11), while Brisbane stays on UTC+10. From October to April, travelers between Brisbane and Sydney must account for a one-hour difference despite the cities being 920 kilometers apart on roughly the same longitude.
The DST referendums
Queensland held three DST referendums in 1967, 1977, and 1992. It trialed DST from 1989 to 1992 and rejected it permanently by referendum that year. The vote was heavily split along geographic lines: Southeast Queensland (Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast) leaned toward DST for economic alignment with Sydney. Rural and northern Queensland strongly opposed it, arguing that DST made no practical sense for farmers and that the northern latitudes of Queensland (Cairns, Townsville) have minimal daylight variation anyway.
The arguments haven’t changed much since. Brisbane’s business community periodically raises the issue, noting that firms in Brisbane operate one hour out of sync with Sydney’s financial markets from October to April. The standard response from Queensland governments is that the last referendum decided the question.
Consistent light, sub-tropical city
At 27 degrees south, Brisbane has more daylight variation than northern Queensland but less than Sydney. June sunrise around 6:45am, sunset around 5:15pm. December sunrise around 4:50am, sunset around 6:40pm. The subtropical climate is warm year-round.
The time conversion from Brisbane to London is ten hours ahead in winter. Bunbury in Western Australia uses UTC+8.
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Questions about time in Brisbane
- What timezone is Brisbane in?
- Brisbane uses the IANA timezone
Australia/Brisbane. The UTC offset is always UTC+10 - this timezone does not observe daylight saving time. - Does Brisbane observe daylight saving time?
- No. Brisbane does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC+10 all year round.
- What is the current UTC offset for Brisbane?
- Brisbane is currently at UTC+10.
- What is the time difference between Brisbane and New York?
- Brisbane is currently 14 hours ahead of New York.
- What is the time difference between Brisbane and London?
- Brisbane is currently 9 hours ahead of London.
- What is the time difference between Brisbane and Los Angeles?
- Brisbane is currently 17 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the time difference between Brisbane and Tokyo?
- Brisbane is currently 1 hour ahead of Tokyo.
- What is the IANA timezone name for Brisbane?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for Brisbane is
Australia/Brisbane. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Australia/Brisbane' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Australia/Brisbane')`), or any IANA-compatible library.