Current local time in Perth
Current time in Perth
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Australia/Perth · UTC+8
Perth runs on Australian Western Standard Time (AWST), a fixed UTC+8 offset. Clocks are never moved for daylight saving here, so the gap to UTC is identical in January and July. Western Australia rejected daylight saving in a 2009 referendum, so Perth drifts between two and three hours behind Sydney depending on the season. The clock above reads the Australia/Perth zone directly and is accurate to the second.
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Time zone facts
- Standard time
- Australian Western Standard Time (AWST), UTC+8
- Daylight saving
- Not observed; the offset is the same all year
- IANA timezone
- Australia/Perth
Common questions
- What time is it in Perth right now?
- The clock at the top of this page shows the current time in Perth, updated every second, with today's date and the day of the week beneath it. Because Perth is always UTC+8, the reading is UTC shifted by that fixed amount.
- What is the UTC offset in Perth?
- UTC+8, all year: Australian Western Standard Time, abbreviated AWST. There is no summer variant to remember.
- Does Perth observe daylight saving time?
- No. Perth stays on Australian Western Standard Time (UTC+8) throughout the year, so the offset to UTC never moves.
- What is the IANA timezone for Perth?
- Australia/Perth. That is the identifier to use in code (a database column, a cron schedule, an Intl.DateTimeFormat call), because it carries the full history of offset and daylight-saving changes for Perth rather than one fixed number.