How far ahead of us is Australia?
The center of Australia is 15:45 hours ahead of the center of the United States. PLEASE NOTE: United States and Australia may span multiple time zones. We are using the America/Denver and Australia/Eucla time zones.
The nation of Samoa also observed the same time as the Samoa Time Zone until it moved across the International Date Line at the end of 29 December 2011; it is now 24 hours (25 hours in southern hemisphere summer) ahead of American Samoa.
The time difference between Australia and New York is 12 to 15 hours. New York City is located in the UTC-5 time zone, during summertime it becomes UTC-4.
| Time in States and Territories in Australia (8 States and Territories Listed Below, 3 States and Territories Have Multiple Time Zones) | |
|---|---|
| Australian Capital Territory * | Mon 11:46 am |
| New South Wales (west) * | Mon 11:16 am |
| New South Wales * | Mon 11:46 am |
| Northern Territory | Mon 10:16 am |
Australian time is ahead of US time because the time zones that the world currently uses were set up by Britain. They picked a method that was convenient for them - London (technically Greenwich Observatory) would be the standard that other time zones would be compared to.
In the Australian summer, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT turn their clocks forward one hour to Daylight Saving Time (DST). Daylight Saving Time begins at 2am (AEST) on the first Sunday in October and ends at 3am (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) on the first Sunday in April.
It is 3:00 pm here, and Australia is 13 hours ahead of us.
Every day has to start somewhere, and that somewhere is always the same: it's the island republic of Kiribati, a vast constellation of atolls dispersed across 1.4 million square miles of Pacific Ocean.
You can see that the most extreme time zones are +14 hours at Line Islands (Kiribati), and -12 hours in and around Baker Islands (US).
It is also referred to as the "latest time zone" on Earth, as clocks in it always show the 'latest' (i.e., most advanced) time of all time zones. UTC+14:00 stretches as far as 30° east of the 180° longitude line and creates a large fold in the International Date Line around the Pacific nation of Kiribati.
Where does a new day start?
Each day on Earth begins at midnight in Greenwich, England, where the prime meridian is located. Originally, the prime meridian's purpose was to help ships at sea find their longitude and determine accurately their position on the globe.
The islands of Samoa, Tokelau and Tonga are 13 hours ahead of London, while the Line Island are a full 14 hours ahead. What's more bizarre is that these islands lie ACROSS the date line, so islands further west than them are over a whole day behind them in time.
In 1941, during the Second World War, clocks were advanced half an hour, to reduce electric power use making New Zealand 12 hours ahead of GMT. This change was made permanent from 1946 by the Standard Time Act 1945, at which the time at the 180°E meridian was made the basis for New Zealand Time.
When the time was 04:00AM on Friday, November 11 in Sydney, it was 12:00PM on Thursday, November 10, 2022 in New York. Sydney is 16 hours ahead of New York. Press any time in the table below to open and share the event time page.
United States - California is 19 hours behind Australia - New South Wales - Sydney.
| New York City (America/New_York) | Sydney (Australia/Sydney) |
|---|---|
| 7:00 pm | 11:00 am |
| 8:00 pm | 12:00 pm |
| 9:00 pm | 1:00 pm |
| 10:00 pm | 2:00 pm |
Current time now in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Standard Time is 10 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT+10).
With a land mass close to 7.7 million square kilometres, Australia is the world's sixth largest country and is divided into three separate time zones.
When the Northern Territory was separated from South Australia and placed under the jurisdiction of the Federal Government, the Territory kept Central Standard Time. Likewise, when the ACT and Jervis Bay Territory were broken off from New South Wales, they retained Eastern Standard Time.
The whole of Australia observed daylight saving time in 1917. In 1941, the nation gave it another go, to reduce demand for artificial lighting and cut back on energy during World War II — Western Australia opted out in 1943, but the rest of the country continued on daylight saying time until 1944.
Is Australia a day in front of the UK?
Yes. Australia is 9 hours ahead of the UK, but purely in terms of the clock. They are also currently some 5 weeks ahead of the UK in the Soap Opera “Neighbours”.
When the time was 08:30AM on Thursday, November 17 in India, it was 10:00PM on Wednesday, November 16, 2022 in New York. India is 10 hours and 30 minutes ahead of New York. Press any time in the table below to open and share the event time page.
Daylight saving is not observed in Queensland, the Northern Territory or Western Australia. Daylight Saving Time begins at 2am on the first Sunday in October, when clocks are put forward one hour. It ends at 2am (which is 3am Daylight Saving Time) on the first Sunday in April, when clocks are put back one hour.
Yes – daylight saving 2022 is fast approaching, which means at 2:00 am on Sunday October 2, 2022, clocks must be put forward by one hour in all Australian states, except for Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland.
Daylight Saving Time begins at 2am on the first Sunday in October when clocks are put forward one hour. Daylight Saving Time ends at 2am (3am Daylight Saving Time) on the first Sunday in April when clocks are put back one hour.
The truth behind Australia's '100 years of mateship' with the US.
Schedule a phone call from California to Sydney, Australia
This will be between 7AM - 11PM their time, since Sydney, New South Wales is 18 hours ahead of California (CA).
| Location | Local Time | Time Zone |
|---|---|---|
| New York (USA – New York) | Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 3:26:32 am | EST |
| Sydney (Australia – New South Wales) | Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 7:26:32 pm | AEDT |
| Corresponding UTC (GMT) | Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 08:26:32 |
All time zones are measured from a starting point centered at England's Greenwich Observatory. This point is known as the Greenwich Meridian or the Prime Meridian. Time at the Greenwich Meridian is known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) or Universal Time.
In South East Asia, between China and India, Nepal lives in its own bubble. With a completely different and unique time zone, this country runs GMT+5:45.
Is there a timezone that no one lives in?
There is one timezone that is completely uninhabited: the UTC-12:00. It covers only two islands: Baker Island and Howland Island that are both uninhabited (owned by US).
The time zone that is farthest behind is Baker Island Time (BIT; UTC-12), the time on Baker and Howland Islands. However, those islands are officially uninhabited.
Guam is 18 hours ahead of California (CA).
Therefore, the biggest time difference between two places in the United States are on locations which lie under the two time zones; the Hawaii-Aleutian and the Eastern Time Zones. The difference in time between the two time zones is six hours.
For any given date, the latest place on Earth where it would be valid, is on Howland and Baker Islands, in the IDLW time zone (the Western Hemisphere side of the International Date Line). Therefore, the day ends AoE when it ends on Howland Island. The convention originated in IEEE 802.16 balloting procedures.
It isn't. The international date line is in the mid Pacific and time zones roughly follow longitudinal lines. North America and South America are in roughly the same time zones as the US.
12:00AM is the 1st minute of the day.
Thus, a new day starts in Pacific ocean on Earth.
London, United Kingdom is 6 hours ahead of the center of the United States.
London, United Kingdom is 6 hours ahead of the center of the Texas (TX). PLEASE NOTE: Texas may span multiple time zones. We are using the US/Central time zone. For more accuracy, choose specific cities for each location.
Is New York ahead of UK?
The time difference between London and New York is 5 hours. New York City is located in the UTC-5 time zone, during summertime it becomes UTC-4. The United Kingdom is therefore ahead of New York. This means that when it is midnight in New York, it is already 05:00 in the UK.
No country, or part of a country, is 24 hours ahead of any part of the contiguous 48 states of the U.S. However, there are places that are 24 hours ahead of American Samoa (UTC-11) and Hawaii (UTC-10).
New Zealand is 20 hours ahead of the center of the United States.
So why are some cities 30 or 45 minutes off? That has largely to do with the politics in each of those places. For example, in New Delhi, India, they found themselves halfway between two meridians, and therefore decided to be 30 minutes between each, as opposed to adopting one time or the other.
Obviously, the one which is physically closest is Hawaii, which is half way across the Pacific towards Australasia.
The US is geographically closer, but getting further and further away politically and ideologically.
Regardless of where you start your road trip, it is not possible to drive to Australia.
Washington D.C – Canberra
The two capital cities are both very similar. The US has the White House, Australia has the Parliament House and both have an abundance of famous monuments, galleries and museums.
Australia is the planet's sixth largest country after Russia, Canada, China, the USA, and Brazil. At 7 692 024 km2, it accounts for just five percent of the world's land area of 149 450 000 km2, and although it is the smallest continental land mass, it is the world's largest island.
| Location | Local Time | Time Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles (USA – California) | Monday, November 7, 2022 at 8:44:20 am | PST |
| Sydney (Australia – New South Wales) | Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at 3:44:20 am | AEDT |
| Corresponding UTC (GMT) | Monday, November 7, 2022 at 16:44:20 |
How many days is Australia ahead of California?
Sydney, New South Wales is 18 hours ahead of California (CA).
| Location | Local Time | UTC Offset |
|---|---|---|
| Sydney (Australia – New South Wales) | Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 12:22:31 am | UTC+11 hours |
| Los Angeles (USA – California) | Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at 5:22:31 am | UTC-8 hours |
| Corresponding UTC (GMT) | Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at 13:22:31 |
Halfway between United States and Australia
The city at the geographic halfway point from United States to Australia is Kapaa, Hawaii.
Australia is the farthest country from the United States of America.
The total straight line flight distance from Sydney, Australia to New York, NY is 9,934 miles. This is equivalent to 15 988 kilometers or 8,633 nautical miles.
