Time in Newcastle, Australia

Time zone: AEST (UTC/GMT +10:00) — Australia/Sydney

The local standard in Newcastle is AEST — UTC+10:00, or 10 hours ahead of UTC. Systems that store time zones by name use Australia/Sydney for this part of the world.

This zone does shift. On Sunday, 04 October 2026 the clocks go forward 1 hour and Newcastle moves to AEDT, so anything booked across that date needs checking.

Across Australia there are 7 distinct time zones among these 50 cities, so "local time" there depends entirely on which city you mean.

Current gap between Newcastle and cities people most often need to coordinate with. These figures already account for daylight saving where it applies.

Assuming a 09:00–17:00 day at both ends, these windows (in Newcastle local time) fall inside working hours for both cities.

No shared working window exists with New York, Los Angeles, London or Paris, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.

These Australia cities also use Australia/Sydney, so their clocks read identically to Newcastle at every moment of the year.

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