CairnsAustralia
Current time in Cairns, Australia
Friday, 16 October 2026
Australian Eastern Standard TimeUTC+10:00
⛶ Full-screen clockCairns time at a glance
- Country
- Australia
- Location
- City in Queensland
- Time zone
Australia/Brisbane- UTC offset now
UTC+10:00- Current zone label
- GMT+10
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Time-zone identity for Cairns
- IANA zone
Australia/Brisbane- UTC offset now
- UTC+10:00
- Current zone label
- GMT+10
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Cairns is currently 10 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Cairns
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Thursday, 21 October 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Cairns
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Australia/Brisbane, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the previous 5 years.
Next 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the next 5 years.
Dates are calculated from IANA time-zone rules. The calculation checks for offset changes throughout the displayed period and resolves each change to the nearest second.
Location context
About Cairns
Location details for Cairns in Queensland, Australia.
- Administrative area
- Queensland, Australia
- Population
- 153,075
- Coordinates
- 16.9237° S, 145.7661° E. The elevation is 7 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Cairns
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Cairns. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- TownsvilleQueensland, Australia283 km southeast
Australia/BrisbaneSame local time - KirwanQueensland, Australia283 km south
Australia/BrisbaneSame local time - MackayQueensland, Australia591 km southeast
Australia/BrisbaneSame local time - Mount IsaQueensland, Australia783 km southwest
Australia/BrisbaneSame local time - RockhamptonQueensland, Australia872 km southeast
Australia/BrisbaneSame local time - GladstoneQueensland, Australia959 km southeast
Australia/BrisbaneSame local time
Sources for Cairns time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 3 sources
- GeoNames cities15000GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · AccessedCity and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
- IANA Time Zone DatabaseInternet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · AccessedTime-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
- Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · AccessedEnglish display names for countries, currencies and languages.